Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-03

/ tish ihuihttS cntuneT lHdll lO our OWn
people, so that 1t is said Cleveland
| builders can buy nails. made in Cleve-
land but shipped to Germany and back
to that city, with freight both ways
added. cheaper than the trust will sell
them not a block away from where
they are made; and although there is
piling up in the Treasury acquired
from these oppressive cxactions from
the consuming public, surplus of
revenue which Is far worse than use
less, in that its existence is standing
temptation to extravaganza and job
bery,-although all these things are
so, the President will not recommend,
nor VIII Congress enact, any repeal or
lowering of these bounties enjoyed
| by those who need them least, at the
expense of those who can ill-afford to
furnish them.
A deputation of Cubans waited upon
the President the other day. They
came TO seek his aid in getting from
Congress the poor privilege of selling
what they have raised, viz: sugar.-a
thing our people would be as glad to
buy as they are eager to dispose Of.
But, although they are our wards"
ana we have delivered them from
bondage" they are met by the same
tariff wall as they encountered with
their sugar in the days of their bond
age" and this is so because il the
wall were razcd, or even lowered so
they could perhaps scale it, they would
be competitors with Mr., Oxnards trust
and the bakers dozen of Louisiana
planters, to whom the universal and
generally poor sugar user Is thus COM
PEELED to pay tribute, from which the
Cubans would gladly relieve him.
The message will not mention the
matter. Nor will Congress act upon it.
a sufficient reason for not doing this
little thing towards the free break.
fast table" of which Republicans II
Few years ago used TO boast, Is given
by the fraud of Athens, Grosvenor, in
Il recent interview, namely "thc Gu
bans have shown themselves absolute
ly ungrateful." Their ingratitude takes
the shape of wanting to sell us some.
thing at IA lower price than we are
paying now Tor it, and therefore Mr..
OXnard and his business associates
ought to pillage the people, for the
whole people are consumers of sugar
time without end.
AS to- the standing danger of the
surplus in the Treasury, it is too small
Il thing for the forthcoming message
to mention. Certainly the President
VIII not recommend its reduction in
any way which will tighten the burden
Of the consumer who has to earn II
and pay 1t. He will, though, com
mend various ways of spending it, and
: Congress will invent still Others The
favorite method will be to build, equip
and keep alloat a large navy, which Is
only machine for killing human be-
lngs, and which can serve no end ex-
cept to enable us to play the bully
among nations, and to ape England
In puny sort of way. The Navy
department. asks an appropriation OF
IN hundred millions for this purpose
Half of this sum, as the Twentieth Cen
tury Club in its protest well says
= would support ten thousand industrial
: or technical schools, where the youth
of the country could he taught the
humane arts of saving and preserving
life and property, instead of the bru
: talzing ones of destroying both, nj
: an expense of five thousand dollars
each. And the Secretary of the Navy
is, we believe, the President of Peac,
society!
Then too, Congress will concoct tn,
, customary "llvcr and lights blll," b,
which sand-bars and mud flats will b,
made to swallow up many millions
more, and the Congressional conscienc,
will again be debauched by bribing
d minority members into voting for III
: Nillainlcs In return for n paltry sol
thrown into the worthless hnrbor,
and creeks of their particular districts
Ana finally, If the surplus cannot b,
= cotton rid of by these ana klndrc,
. projects for wasting 1t, and II for sheer
y decency's sake some cutting must b,
u done, II viii be by taking off some OF
7 the Internal Or excise duties. and tn,
a beginning viii be made on luXurics ant
D not the necessities of life; it win h,
G confined too, to those. "mtercsts" which
have habit of chipping in" to th,
Republican campaign fund. Whlsk,
- ana tobacco may he relieved, for the,
q are In trusts; but the purchaser nj