The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-10-06
HOW DEMOCRACY WILL
BENRFIT THIS T

and high protection the average resi-
dent Of the sugar district is, perhaps,
b a worse condition than ever before.
The business men, the farmers, the
Iboring men, and any number Of 1.-THE
sugar planters, Of the sugar belt
state, that, last year and thiS year,
have besn a. hard years a. they have
ever encountered.
tt can easily be proven that the
laboring man who constitutes a large
portion Of the population Of the sugar
district, and upon whose prosperity
nine ont Of ten business men depend,
never had less Imoney to spend. 1t
csn also be shown that the small
farms and small sugar plantations
are as heavily mOrtgaged as they ever
we're
These are facts that can be easily
proven, to the satisfaction Of any one
who win confne his Investigations to
the masses who constitute che great
hulk Of the population Of the sugar
district.
The sugar industry receives the
full effect Of the Republican theory
Of protection TO all American indus
tries' and the failure to produce the
desired prosperity suggests that an
inquiry Be made into the causes chat
operate to make such hard times in a
section whore the contrary was OZ-
pected-
r is nat sufficient to lay the fault
entirely To- short crops. There i
something besides short crops that
must be considered It is this: The
Insignificant increase in wages does
not compensate the toilers Of this
section for the increase in the price
81 the articles Of consumption. Whilg
the wages may have increased from
to 5 per cent during the past fOul
years the necessities Of life have In
creased from Is to 20 per cent. Il
gaining s cents there lisa less Of II
cents, It would Be strange, indeed, if
under such conditions, the masses
found anything to gloat over in Mr.
McKinley's smiling prosperity.
The man with q fixed salary cal
buy less with that salary, and there
fore cannot live as well. The lahore
with practically fixed wages also ha
TO pay more for nearly everything h,
has to buy and consequently can no
thrive. The farmer, too, not only ha
30 pay the advanced prices, chat tn
Republican high tariff, on other indus
tries, and the Republican trust, pre-
duce, but hShaSto pay AN ExoRBITAN
ADvASDt Al the price Of agriculture
Implements.
Under the Democratic plan Their
viii be this difference : There wi
% a tariff on sugar equal to the pre-
Int tariff, that win be levied foTrev,
noo purposes and mot for ~prO#eetio
although it will havs the sans efel
u giving incidental protection III
residents Of the sugar district will /
benefited the same in this reapec
but as the Democratic party does n,
believe in protection to all America
Industries" the high tariff on man
q the articles Of consumption viii
reduced 10 such q degree that v
would not have to pay out alb Of Il
benefits derived from the p~rotectic
To sugar and mose besides, n ordt
q protect the otbsE industries Of Il
ognntry- Another benefit that vi
follow The eleetiOn Of M. Bryan wi
Be the destruction sf those hug
trusts that haEot the power to contr.
tie pEiea Of the necessities Of Iii
md d rot hesitate 70 usp that pow,
70 The dstrimsnt Of the millions Of vi
6ms Of their arbitrary methods {
taxation.
TIE Republican party will never q
anything 20 destroy these trusts, fl
6ssy are at once creatures and CT
eola of ths Republican party, al