The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-10-14


made. He told how the Dingley bill
was framed--or all that part Of the
framing that he desired the public to
know about--and how it was debated in
the senate, how it passed and what 1t con-
tanned He had evidently been reading
the papers, but he seemed to think that
nobody reads heresbouts, and told the
thing all over again. to the discontinue
of the old guard" aud the thinning of
the corwd. The principal feature OF his
tariff talk was the cons picuous part played
by the pronoun 1, demonstrating that the
speaker had ventured to read some Of
Hanna's speeches, and hadn't quite re-
covered from the effects.
When the Dingley bill was passed,
said he "every thing began to look up.
Wheat began to rise in price; cattle,
sheep and other farm animals advanced" "
Now some orators for the Republican
party lay that to providence, but this
senator, who was sent here to lay down
the Republican plan of campaign, lays 1t
to the Dingley bill, and incidentally Mark
Hanna, for all agree-on the stump-that
nothing could have been accomplished
at all without Hanna and his peculiar
way of siding up t. the Pops" But
Mark and the Dingley bill sent the fam
Inc to India and the potato bugs to Ire
land. Then up went wheat and pota-
toes in America. Mark and the tariff
killed of the Hotteutots and jumped onto
the Irish, ana then prosperity carried out
its part Of the plan and "dawned." II
was great combination-the tariff, the
famine, the potato bugs and Mark-and
the results were all right for time, but
the thing seems to have been overdone.
The prosperity microbes that sent starva-
tion to 100000 people of India, and
spOilrd the Irishman' S potatoes, got into
q bale Of cotton down at New Orleans
and the yellow fever broke out Then
some of them got mixed up with the
weather, and the clouds refuse to give any
more rain. Now they can't blame that
on anything but Mark and the bill.
They can't take the credit for the famine
in India without having suspicion cast
upon them as to who started the yellow
fever aud produced the drouth. They
can't lay the plague and the dry spell to
providence without blaming it onto the
Republican patry, for Hanna said in a
speech the other night that God is a Re
publican.
SOME SUGAR.
Senator Fairbanks voice became most
sweet and winsome as he proceeded with
his speech and took up toe sugar sched-
ule. The people know that great wrong
was committed aud that the sugar trust
got the benefit, but the smooth trust
lawyer had plenty Of taffy with him and
went on to tell why sugar had been
taxed. I'VE did it to protect sugat beet
raising" said Fairbanks. "Can we
raise sugar beets9 Yes, believe some
are being raised now 10 sonthecn .Califor- |
MIA, and Seer rotary Wilson toll me that 1t |
was his best judgment that in TN years
the farmers could raise them here" The |
audience received this statement with |
silence. Even the special committee
nidn't respond to the chairmau's sigual
IL seemed so long to wait. But of |
course it must come some time. A tariff |
that could bring pestilence and dry
weather could certainly make new soil |
and bring about climatic changes SO that
instead of settling with the tr1st a labor
Ing men could go out into his garden, |
pull up sugar beet and sweeten his |
coffee. 1t was the first thing the
speaker hsdloftered 0s a substitute for the |
wages they we're to receive after the elec- |
Lion, and the time seems somewhat re-
mote, but too much must not be ex-
pected. This isn't the kind of prosper
lty that prospers. 1t is Just the dawn
Ing" kind, the conditional" variety.
Mark may want to run for president in
the meantime and the pCstponement is
made so that the beet business can be |
held over the heads of the voters during
5he time of the Cleveland man s adyanc O.
ment.
"Of course we put dlfferential on |
sugar, said the speaker, ito encourage
the refining interests, SO that the refn-
ing Of American beets can be done at
home" TT at is, ten years hence, when
the farmer raises beet, he won't need to
lake trip to Europe to get the sugar
1ut of 1t. For ten years the consumers
Of this conntry will pay millions and bill
ions of dollars to the sugar trust, so that
when the climate change comes, and the
beats grow, they can be refined. 1t was
such a lame excuse for such shameless
oieca of legislation that many intelligent
people in the audience fairly groaned.
They remembered when Mr.. MoKinely
vent about this district talsing free sugar
md the "untaxei breakfast table"
RECIPROCITY.
Then Fairbanks talked reciprocity, ana
aid the scheme WAS "the product Of the
combined genius Of James @. Blaine,
William Mckinley and Benjamin Har-
'ison,' neglecting to state that Mr.. Mo
zinley made speech against the recip.
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