The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-06-17
THE SUGAR
TRUST WINS.
The Senate Does Its Bidding With
fragrant Disregard Of Public
Opinion.
WILL BE NO INVESTIGATION

WILL BIZ NU In VESIl9ATlUN.
Democrats and Republicans Vote Against
Proposition to Protect The Farmer.
Free silver Republicans and Pcpulists
Favor The Export Bounty-SIlver Re-
pubicans Organize-McKinley and Cuba.
Special to The Caucasian.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 1.-THE
Sugar Trust has again issued its or
ders and again ma jority Of the SEN
ate has done its bidding. In our let
ter last week we stated that public
criticism against the sugar schedule
proposed by the Republican members
of the Senate Committee was so severe
that they were contemplating with
drawing the schedule and offering an
other one, which they said would be
lower. That schedule gave the Sugar
Trust bounty of $12.4O on every ton
of sugar. Last Friday the Republican
managers withdrew this schedule and
offered a new one, but it was so COM
plicated that no man, unless he is
thoroughly familiar with all the de-
tails of the sugar refining business,
could understand what it meant or how
much bounty it would give to the SUI
gar Trust: Experts say that
ule; that it will give at least
Trust. This was charged on the
floor of the Senate and not denied by
the Republican members; nOtwith-
standing, the schedule passed by a
vote of thirty-two to thirty. 1t was
humiliating and sickening spectacle.
The present Democratic tariff law
gives the Sugar Trust bounty of six
dollars and eighty cents per ton. The
Dingley bill as it passed the House
gave the Sugar Trust $1l.SO ton the
first amendment proposed by the Sen
ate Finance Committee gave the trust
$12.4O cents per ton. The new amend
ment adopted Friday gives the trust
$13.4O cents bounty on every ton OF
sugar. No Democrat can defend the
action of his party in giving the trust
six dollars and eighty cents bounty.
The action of the Republicans in more
than doubling this free Gift does not
differ in principle from the action of
the Democrats. In both cases it is
robbery-the Republican robbery Is
still greater.
VESTIGATE
On the same day that this brazen
robbery of the people took place in
open daylight, came the announce
ment that the committee reported un-
favorably Tillman's resolution to in
vestigate the sugar scandal. This /.
canoe of public decency and public
Rnf Ic " hot
| if the Senate has resolved to do the
| bidding of the Sugar Trust that il
should be opposed to being investi.
gated.
BOTH OLD PARTIES VOTE AGAINST THE
FARMER.
The pending bill contains a SEIZED.
ule that is known as the Agricultural
schedule. 1t places import duties or
cotton, wheat, barley. corn, ETC., and
in this way the Republicans claim that
they will protect the farmer as they
protect the manufacturer. Every
| farmer knows that this is sham and
fraud, because wheat and cotton and
corn are not imported to compete
with the farmer as shoes, hats, and
other foreign manufactured goods are
imported to compete with the manu-.
featured product. The farmer exports
wheat, corn, and cotton. He meets BE-
we're competition from cheap foreign
labor but he meets it on the Liverpool
market. Therefore a tariff to keeK
out foreign cotton and wheat is ridicu'
lOus. They do not come here at all
To test the sincerity of the Republi
cans and at the same time to extend
the same benefits by protection to the
farmer that is extended to the manu-
facturer, Senator Cannon offered al
amendment to pay to the farmer al
export bounty of ten cents on eacl
bushel of wheat, five cents on eacl
bushel of corn and one cent per poun'
on cotton exported from this country
This was a plain business proposition
1t was protection that would protect
Every Democrat and Republican i
forced to admit that if this amendmen
was adopted that it would raise tn
price which the farmer gets for hi
>. wheat, cotton, and corn. 1t would no
only raise the price on the amount b
exported, but would raise the price Of
:. all sold at home. If the same amour
T of wheat, cotton and corn were ex
t ported this year that was exporte
last, the amendment calls for an az
preparation of about forty-seven mil
t flions of dollars, in the pockets of tn
3 American farmer. When this amend
l ment was put to vote every Republi
j can voted against it, though it simpl
: proposed to apply their own doctrin
of protection to the farmer and tres
= him as they have been treating tt
e manufacturer. What did the Dert
q Gratis do? Every one of them excel
s three voted against the amendmel
because they said it was against the
e principles. Yet every Democrat know
a that the pending tariff bill will b
i come a law. Now if the pending bi
d robs the farmer for the benefit Of tt
IS manufacturer. why did not evel
l. Democrat take this opportunity
8 right the wrongs by returning ~ NUT
y as possible of the money collected III
10 der this tariff bill to the pockets
IS the farmer? The present iprmncra'
3 tariff law protects the manusactur
q and gives no protection to the farme
The present Democratic tariff law
n unjust to the farmer. The Republic,
10 bill is simply more so. Every Pop
list and every silver Republican vot