The Caldwell tribune., 1900-04-21

out VIII go among LAS GOA GOA = AnAhhSSA' .lh1Sl
If the adjoining districts and point
out to them who it was that; in the
hour when their interests were in
peril, dared to hesitate and fool and
be-devil the whole country in the
interest of cheap labor.
We may as well talk plainly. We
may as we'll come right to the point;
we may as well call things by their
right cognomen. Here is your first
opportunity. The United States
has entered upon great future, a
great scheme, a great purpose, Won
derful in its grandeur, and it in
wolves the welfare of its citizens at
home more than it does the welfare
of the citizens abroad, and here IN
this hour, when labor for the hrst
time in this country for many years
is profitable, it is menaced by pol
itica1 dogma which is coming from
the same source from which came
the dogma of 1860.
Talk about humanity! No peo-
pie ON earth were ever treated with
humanity in such overhowing
rivers as we propose to treat the
people Of Puerto Rico. Nonsense,
ridiculous absurdity, all of this.
I read in a New York paper the
other day a series of special tele-
grams, purporting to have come
from Puerto. Rico, stating that 3o,;
900 were naked and could not gel
cotton cloth to cover their naked
ness, and right down under it was
a statement from this same Genera
Davis, who is a politician, a soldier
and a little of everything and
good deal of nothing, declaring tina
if this money were appropriated
they would expend it to build roads
:: These people are suffering; I know
they are suffering. I weep TO
them; I sympathize with them
They have not dollar of anything
r to sell, and they have not a dolla
5 with which to buy anything, an
we not only propose to give ther
r all this Tariff, but we propose t
f take it off the men who in gree
haste, with their little sample case
r have rushed to Puerto Rico an
+ Cuba and elsewhere and spotted tt
$ places where they could make moi
= ey out of the commodities.
O The statement published IN tt
v Congressional Record last Saturda
d being a telegram sent to the homo
J. able senator from Wisconsin, polr
# ed out the whole situation, and Il
E. who runs may read" Here 1t is;
st The principal importers of Sug
&c from Puerto Rico are A. s. Lascells
20.
These gentlement at this time
~ suing to recover what they ha
- paid
A1 Lawrence. Turnure & Co.. Americ
IS. Sugar Refining Company.
m to-wit, the greatest trust in
ey world, the American Sugar Trus
- L. W. & P. Armstrong, Muller, Sci
re. g. Co.. John Farr and Melcher, Al
'u- strong & Dessau.
he These are the men who hi
he bought the sugar of Puerto Ri
le- These are the men who stand b
n clamoring for Free-Trade., Th
len are the men who have bought
Tir- 60, 900 tons of sugar which will
the relieved of S. per cent. OF
md Ding1ey rate, and who will put
ing into their pockets, and who
hat protest against the payment OF
,ort meager, pitiable sum of IS
4sh- cent Of the Dingley rate. Th;
ons this whole transaction. No
are can turn it in any other way.
may shout, you may pass res
be tons, you may clipper through
larp newspapers, you may attack n
oper nations of candidates for Cong
heir and you may threaten and bull
ven and make the charge of Grimm
ntry and fraud and bribery through
men press, as has been done in this
\ - aro,- - eli 1yOs1 will find