The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-14

Sugar trust. The government nov |
receives betwee 500 900 900 and S6O. |
0Oo, 900 annually as import duties OF
raw sugar.
With Hawaii, Cuba and Porte
Rico all included in the United states.
the government would not collect
dollar on imported raw sugar, be
cause those three countries can pro-
duce every pound of sugar consumed
in the United States.
The result would be that Will,
importers of raw sugar, chief O.
whom is the American Sugar trust,
now pay the government between.
$50, 900, 900 and $50, 900, GOO per year
they would then pay nothil z. The
government would lose the revenue
and the sugar reflners would get tht
benefit. Many years ago certain in
terests were powerful enough to Sc
cure the negotiation of a treaty un-
der which Hawaiian sugar has been
coming in without duty, and every
body knows how rich the beneficial
ries OF that legislation have grown.
THE remission of Hawaiian sugar
duties, however, is a zi-ere bagatelle
when compared with this new propo-
sition. To give the sugar refners
back the $50, ,000,00O which they now
pay the government would be like.
giving them a billion dollars worth
of bonds bearing interest at the rate
of per cent. (Cries of, That's so. }
Nor does the favoritism end there
the taxes which are remit ed to the
sugar trust must be made up by thu
producing and consuming classes OF
this country. In other words, oul
Republican friends propose to take
! $50, ,OnO ,O0O from the shoulders of the
sugar trust and lay it upon the back.
of the American people, (Tremen
dous applause).
MIR. Bailey then took up Porte
Rico and discussed it along similaI
lines.
He illustrated how wild the Calves
ton conventioa went by saying tina
after they had dealt with Cuba ant
Port Rico they then added that the.
would take everything else belong
ing to Spain in the West Indies, ant
that, too, in the face of the fact tina
Spain owns nothing else in the Wes
ladies' daughter and cheers,
The speaker then remarked tina
he would be heard from later upo
other phases of the expansion ques
ton and paused. 1t was eviden
- that he intended coming nearer nom
SO to speak. and as look of deter
: mination spread over his feature
the large crow gathered close
about the speakers stand.
a voice from the throng called out
"You are all right, Bailey; G
ahead,'' to be followed by cheers an
yells of, "Hurrah for Bailey"
Advancing a step or two neart
;, the edge of the stand and lookir
down upon the upturned faces, he
steady voice proceeded:
Y my fellow-citizens have alwa.
4 been candid with you since ha'
10 been your representative in co
r. gress. and | shsll continue to be
until the end. Not one among "
ic dares to raise up in the presence
% mis- reighbors and say that | ha
.s ever made you a promise which
no did not keep, or that | have ev
,a said one thing among you and a
he other thing in the halls of corgre'
"a Our relations as representative a
ut constituents have been such tina
a+ I'M bound to you for your unifo
,lv xindness TO me, and much as l lo
to YOU for the generous confideI
lid which you have reposed IN me
ba would a thousand times rather
he down your great Office than to "
RI for what | honestly believe will pr(
injurious to your best interests
of destructive of our free institutlo
to "No man has ever been trus
ere more absolutely by his constltuel
wn than have, nor has any man
ces toiled more incessantly oroer 10
ms. tifv the confidence of his people. n
to the satisfaction of having done
leir duty. | value most the approva
last nv constituents. In order to
was nv duty faithfully and well ana
han merit your commendation. l
MIA. worked while other men have 81
e is and feel more than rewarded for
xas, labor in the consciousness tn
cor should receive from you tnat mig
nere eulogy ever framed by human
uce- We'll done, thou good and Fl
ere. ful servant Continued chez
and dnpnIansel Rnt all the pleasu