The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1902-01-25
Supporting the Congressman.
st. Bernard Voice.

DcCdubC tuC hOuioiouo NOb6 ASc
men voted for the protection OF
rice and sugar big howl went up
from 'half-dozen newspaper offices,
where only an air of triple extract,
Of Stree tradism" pervades and on
ly mossback inhabitants, with OK
ploded political theories, are well
come and discuss the insignifi-
canoe of the sugar and rice indus
tries and the great principles OF
the Democratic party" which they
alone claim to understand. Those
principles, from their viewpoint,
mean the sacrifice of our interests
for those of foreign people. for
they hold that it is outrageous to
afford protection, no matter how
reasonable, to our industries. Free
trade in the full sense of the term
and nothing less will appease
these sledge-hammer and vocifer-
Gus advocates of the great Demo-
cratic principles" which they cant
tell from a hobo. Several of our
esteemed contemporaries, whose
Democracy has never been of a
very pronounced type aud which
have always displayed uncommon
interest in the rice industry, are
now engaged in throwing sneers at
the Louisiana Congressman and
are so occupied in that pleasant
pastime as to entirely overlook the
gross inconsistency of their pre-
seut attitude.
1t is, however, a fact that with
the exception of a few red-hot-and-
still-a-heating free trade newspa-
pers, with those great Democra-
tic principles" as their motto, the
Louisiana press approves the ac-
ton of the Congressman and will
not remain silent while these
statesmen are read out of the par
ty by the free trade extremists for
doing what every other intelligent,
wide-awake and true representa-
tives would have done under the
same conditions. Many of the
strongest Democratic newspapers
have loudly approved of the course
followed by the Louisiana Con-
gressmen and are still praising
them for doing what they believed
was right. The ably edited Thi-
bodeaux Sentinel, discussing the
remarks of Senator Tillman, con-
demnatory of our congressman,
says:
Senator Tillman Is mudslinger. He
is Gre eater. His only fault is reck.
lsssness Of speech. He is honest in biz
convictions, but is natural crank. He
condemns Louisiana Congressman fO'
voting in favor of our domestic interests
today, because he failed to grasp the 81
tuation and vote himself for the South
Carolona rice interests. The erratis
South Carolina Senator was caught nap.
ping. and he now kicks against thost
who were not aud who kept their wits
at their fingers end"
Tariff for revenue only with inciden-
tai protection to infant industries hat
been proclaimed by every Democratic
platform. The platforms we're eithel
barefaced deception or were framed By
designing politicians for Interior mo.
tives. This we are not prepared to sub
scribe to and we accept the platforms o.
our party, as we interpret the provisio q
of our party, ane we interpret the pro
visions Of our law. just as they are read
Besides. We believe that when our all Il
at stake our representatives in Congress
should be permitted to follow the course
of Samuel J. Randall. than whom there
never was truer Democrat. and stand