The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-05-28
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w
er this Is government by OF, and for
the people, or a government by, OF. and
for the sugar trust, Is question that
will soon be determined. Not satisfied
with holding the people of this country
up to the extent of eight or ten million
dollars year through the sugar sched-
ule of the tariff bill, the trust Is seeking
to preven' either the administration or
congress doing anything that will help
Cuba. Although Mr.. Mckinley has
been reported to be opposed to the sugar
schedule of the tariff bill, he is acting
with the trust to throttle an expression
of the almost universal sentiment of the
country in behalf of Cuba through con-
gress, and by the aid of Car Reed he
has so far succeeded. Representative
Bailey and the other Democrats and
PopuIists in the house made stout
fight to pass a resolution declaring In
favor of the recognition of the belllger-
ency of the CubanS at the same time
the appropriation of $50, 900 to feed
starving American citizens in Cnba was
made, but the most they could do was
to frighten the Republicans into re-
calling all their absent members and to
compel many Republicans to vote
against their honest convictions is order
to please Mr.. Mckinley and the sugar
trust Republicans talk mysteriously
about Mr.. Mckinley, having robust
Cuban policy, but when pressed they ac-
knowledge that they don't know what it
is In fact, there is considerable grumb-
ling among the prominent Republicans
because Mr.. Mckinley has hot taken
them into his confidence as to his in
tention towards Cuba The senate will
probably act, anyway, but the house
can do nothing as long as it wears the
Reed muzzle.
Mr.. L. +. Wardner, the wetl known
BOSTON editor and publisher was in
Washington this week comforting with
prominent ailver men in congress. He
reported the silver sentiment IN New
England to be greatly on the increase,
owing to the eyes of merchants and
manufacturers having been opened by
the continued fail in prices, and said:
The silver feeling in the large towns,
always strong, is increasing rapidly and
will make itself felt in the next con-
gressional campaign. Skilled labor is
more than ever in favor of silver. The
shoemakers of Lynn, Haverhill and
other places are almost to a man bimet
allists. The Typographical Union is
nine-tenths for silver. There will be at
least six silver congressman In the next
Massachusetts delegation, and the
chances are pretty good that the next
legislature will contain a silver majority
| sincerely and honestly believe that if
Massachusetts were to vote tomorrow
she would cast her lot on the side of bi-
metalllsm as against the gold stand
ard. - Many business men, Mr.. Ward
ner said, had given up hope of any re-
lief through the tariff bill.
The presence of ex-senator Ingalls,
and Bob Eitzsimmons in Washington at
the same time caused some one to start
a story that Ingalls, had teken the job of
press agent for the prize fighter. AL
though he denies it, there are reasons
for believing that ingalls, is after Nc
Kinley pie.
Senator Tillman says he intends to
see there is an investigation of the new
sugar trust scandal. He gives his rea
sons in the following language: 1.-The
senate cannot afford to let this M after
rest where it Is. We cannot ignore the
charges that have been made. The
principal thing for us to find out is what
influences were back of the adoption of
that schedule by the finance committee
As far as speculation in sugar stock by
senators is concerned, | know of no rea-
son why a senator has not the same
right to risk his money and gamble in
stocks as other men, provided he does
not do it on secret and advance infor-
nation which Is not accessible to the
public, and provided it is not at a time
when his vote in the senate would infu-
euce the course of the market" Dir.
Tlllman says he will wait a reasonable
time to allow some older senator to of
fer resolution providing for an inves-
tigation before doing so himself, but
that the investigation will certainly be
made, if persistency on his part will get
resolution ordering it adopted
No greater farce was ever enacted in
Washington than the Imprisonment of
Chapman. the sugar broker, which was
begun this week. He is supposed to be
IN prison as punishment, but there is
mighty little punishment about it. He
has costly fitted up bedroom and an
office adjoining; his meals are prepared
at swell hotel, and he has a waiter
from that hotel detailed to wait upon
him. He receives callers and enter
tains them all the time, and can do
about anything he could do in a hotel
except to leave the Jail. This is an in
furious farce, too, because it increases
the belief, already too prevalent, that
there is one justice for the wealthy and
quite another for the poor. NJ