The record-union., 1898-10-29

compete with the comparatively free
wool from Australia, Mexico, China
and other foreign wools Sheep, cat
tie and other live stock have advanced
fully 90 per cent, but the consumer
does not complain as he is getting bet
ter meat and a better opportunity to
earn money to buy it with"
The Dingley tariff bill, he said, had
put up the bars against Mexican cat
tie, thus putting money into the pock-
cts of the American stockowners. In
referring to the effect of the tariff bill
on the beet sugar industries Of the
State, Senator Perkins said:
THE United States pay to foreign
countries about S100,O00,000 annually
for sugar. The Mckinley bill gave q
bounty of 2 cents per pound for four
teen years to stimulate the growing of
sugar cane and sugar beets in this
country. AS soon as our Democratic
friends came into power they promptly
passed the "Wilson-Gorman" Tariff
Act, which repealed the bounty law. If
the Dingley bill under the present Re-
publican Congress had not been en-
acted the sugar industry in the United
States would have been crushed out.
This bill, instead of bounty, affords
| the beet-sugar growers protection Of
about Us cents per pound on refined
sugar that comes from Germany and
other countries that pay an export
bounty upon sugar sent from their
country into the United States.
| California produced in 1888 only
1910 tons of beet sugar, in 1897 80, 2S0
tons, and in addition to the factories
we have already, a new factory is in
process Of construction near Salinas
City of 1000 tons beets capacity per
| day; that means distribution Of about
| $4,000 per day (for a yearly campaign
! of five to six months) in payment Of
beets, fuel, lime, packages, transporta-
tion and labor.
There are also other beet factories
| building at Port Costa, Anaheim and
| Oxnard; and the factories in Chino
San Leandro and Watsonville are en-
| larging their capacity. Not one Of
these factories would have been built
or improved had the Wilson German
! Act remained law upon our statute
/ books.
| Professor Hilgard of the University
of California states that California is
capable of producing from the beet
more than one-half Of the sugar re-
quired for consumption in the United
| States.
"The increase in exports for the
| tv elve months ending June 80, 1893,
were $50, ,31S,312 more than they were
! for the previous year ending June 30,
1897, while the decrease in imports for
| the same period Of time was S149 000,
| 600, or say $500, ,000, 900 in favor of the
| United States for the year"
The speaker said he had felt that the
| Democrats had been sincere in their
| advocacy of States rights and free
trade, but since two other parties had
been merged into it, each one declar-
ing for something entirely different
from Democratic principles, he had
paused to think. The Populist plat
| form, he said, had one plank which he
heartily indorsed because it was also
| in the Republican platform and had
been born of Republican parentage-
the election of United States Senators
| by direct vote of the people. The Sill
yer Republican platform indorsed the
administration of President Cleveland
and declared against free trade, while
the Democratic party did neither. He
thought the only thing left for Demo-
Gratis to do was to come into the Re-
publican camp because they had no
| standing in the fusion camp-their
principles had all vanished.
The Republican party, the speaker
said, had done more for silver than the
| Democratic party ever had done. Gold,
silver and paper, he said, circulated in
about equal quantities, and were at
par the world over. Silver dollars were
sent over to pay our soldiers at Ma
Mia, and every one Of those dollars
were worth two and a half Spanish
dollars. To throw open the mints to
| free coinage would only go to place
the silver dollar on par with the Mex
lean dollar He did not believe the
people wanted anything Of the kind,
but felt that they would express at the
polls their confidence in the Republican
| Administration.
The Democrats, the speaker said,
having lost one issue, came up with
another one, and their present cry was.
Railroad! Railroad" Regardless of
President Cleveland's scheme to have a
syndicate pay the debt of the Union
Pacific Railroad at a loss to the Gov
ernment, President McKinley's policy
/ promptly closed the mortgage on the
road and brought every dollar Of the
| Indebtedness into the national treas
ury
| Senator Perkins spoke at consider
able length on the refunding bill, and
| explained 1t in detail The bill, he
said, had gone through practically
unanimously, and since it's passage the
| Democrats had set up man of straw.
He said there was certainly no railroad
| issue at this time, and If there was the
| Governor of California would just as
certainly have nothing to do with set
Ting it. Everybody, he said, believed
/ in railroads, and only complained when
railroads took advantage of the peo-
/ pie and placed their attorneys in Rail-
| road Commissions, and sent them to
Congress to work for them and not for
the interests Of the district they repre-
sent. Competition, he said was what
was necessary, and the opening UP and
| Improvement Of the rivers of the State
were in line with that thought. Big ap-
| preparations, he said, had been secured.
and greater ones would follow when
Frank Ryan was elected to Congress.
The Republican party, he said. was
making il possible for successful COM
| petition, which meant cheap transpor-