The Sauk Centre herald., 1900-03-08

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greater desire to divide some OF their
large profits with the wheat makers Of
the Seventh district 1 will take their
protestatious with a grain OF salt.
81 am inclined to believe that If the
law placed bonus of 80 cents, instead
of duty of 80 cents, on each barrel OF
-four they would not have been so swift
to discover the constitutionality of
the measure.
''The same may be said with equal
force of manufacturers of agricultural
implements, lumber and cotton cloth,
and as for the moral question that SO
alarms the manufacturers of canned
meats. do not believe their morality
is any better than the canned beef they
sent to our soldiers in Cuba. i
'They are not satisfied with being
relieved of the tremendous duties inn
posed by Spain upon these articles
that made it almost impossible for
them to ship any OF their goods there,
but they object to contributing any
thing whatever for the amalioration of
the condition of this island, and would
prefer to impose burden or debt on
this poverty stricken terriory. or
that Uncle Sam should put his hand
int "a 1ni fna
hand out the money necessary and thus
impose a tax on all the people for
their relief. r- a.~.....
81 believe, however, that the man
who derives the direct benefits of in
creased trade with our newly acquired
possessions should out Of the profits Of
this trade contribute revenue necessary
to improve their condition, educate
them, and make them capable Of enjoy
ing the blessings and privileges of
United States citizens, than this bur-.
den should be placed by the great mas
ses OF people who are only directly
benefited or not benefited at all by the
extention of our trade that will newt
ably result by reason of the policy of
expansion which is now the declared
policy of the Republican party. t..
3. snow one word in reg ard to trusts.
The Democracy is loudly proclaiming
that the Republican party has sur
rendered to the sugar trust and the
tobacco trust. just as it proclaimed
in 1896 that we had surrendered to the
money trust. sr ss ..-
"They do this knowing full we'll that
the warehouses of Porto Rica are filled
to bursting with hogsheads of sugar
and casks of tobacco, the property of
the sugar and tobacco trusts, stored
there waiting for free trade, SO that
they might evade all duty, and that
during the consideration of this bill
the most powerful and best organized
lobby were opposing the measure that
I ever saw in Washington.
"Whom does this lobby represent?
The people? In all my political ex-
perience I never knew the. people to
send an organized lobby to represent
their interests before a legislative
body, but alwayswhen Isee men throng.;
ing legislative corridors, bending the
pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift
may follow fawning, who smirk and.
smile and bow and buttonhole when
ever they meet a representative, that
they always represent special inter-,
est, and whenever such influences are:
for measure it is safe for the legis-
Iator to be against it, and when such
influences are againsttit, it is.safe for,
him to be for it.
"All these influences are radically
opposed to the bill. Yet the Demo-
Gratis insist that we have surrendered
to the trusts. want to say it is in
comprehensive to my mind that Dem
ocrats of the east, were jumping jacks
of Tammany. who ma re the most re-
markable gyrations every time that
most corrupt political Organization
pulls the string, and Democratic repre-
sentives from the South, where the
popular voice is suppressed to such an
extent that the Pooulistic vote In the.
Seventh district of Minnesota would
elect FIVE Democratic congressman II
cast in Southern state, are the only.
national Legislators who care for the
peoples interest.
eff this astounding proposition 10
true, then it follows that the best thing
this nation can do is to turn the con-
troll of the government over to the hy-
dra-headed combination OF Tammany-
ism and Populism and southern DEM
ocracY, which the swift. Hoated, nimble-
tongued Nebraskan is SO strenuously