The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-12


from which ne argued that the Cubans, not
the sugar trust. would get the benefit. and
OIL the benent. Of any reduction Congress
might make.
legislation fail and no concession be made
10 Cuba-ff the policy of President McKin-
ley and President Roosevelt be defeated
by this HOuse-it does not mean that the
beet sugar industry. by the control Of this
House can prevent free sugar from Cuba.
After the establishment Of the republic
OF Cuba "a treaty can be negotiated with
that country by the President that can
provide for the annexation Of Cuba. as the
recent treaty did for the annexation OF the
Danish West indies; and that treaty can
be submitted 10 the Senate and ratified.
Tho moment that the Publications are ex-
Changed under the decision OF the Supreme
Court ~ the Porto Rican case. we would
have free trade with Cuba on all products.
The House would be powerless 10 prevent
IL. So this House u not supreme; and II
Goes not control or dominate this situation.
1T would be the part OF wisdom for the
beet sugar interests TO agree to a reason
able concession that would not inJure their
Industry in the remOtest degree rather
than be compelled 20 accept possible an
nexatiOn in the immediate future. Annexa-
tiOn viii come IN the not far distant fu-
ture, but when il does come I want il to
come by the free act Of the Cuban people,
and when they come permanently under our
flag I do not want them 10 feel they were
The victims OF fOrcible annexation. which
President Mckinley characterized as Grim
inal aggression
a MANIFESTO.
When Mr.. Long finished speaking Mr..
Tayler. OF Ohio. presented a protest against
the plan Of the ways and means committee.
The protest was drafted at the conference
which the Republicans opposed to reel
proeity held last night. 1t was in the ma
ture OF a manifesto setting out the grounds
on which their opposition was based, be-
ing largely an ampihcation Of the con-
tention that a reduction OF the duty on
Cuban products involved a relaxation Of
the protective principle. In lieu of the
Tawney proposition for rebate Mr.. Tayler
offered the following resolution:
Resolved. First. that We reaffirm on rad
herence 10 the Republican national plat
form OF 1886. insuring adequate protection
TO the cane and beet-sugar industries in
the United States, and 10 the policy Of
reciprocity as declared in our platform of
Secondhand we have maintained and
will continue to faithfully discharge the
obligations TO Cuba assumed by virtue Of
the treaty Of Paris and the Platt amend
ments. and that we favor such CONNER
cial agreements with her as her govern
ment when established may be willing 10
make and which will be I'm harmony with
out national policy OF protection and rec
fprOcity. and.
~"Third-That no further action be taken
respecting the proposition TO reduce the
tariff on Cuban products coming into this
country"
The manifesto in part says: I'VE oppose
the proposition TO reduce the tariff on Gu
ban products coming into this country be-
cause II involves relaxation or protective
principle.
The Republican platform of 1896 con-
demned the Democratic party for not keep
ing faith with the American sugar grow
ers; we seek not 70 merit for ourselves the
same condemnation The proposition to
reduce the sugar tariff constitutes. in es-
6ence, an abandonment OF the protective
principle, even though IL removes only one
fifth of the duty imposed by the Dingley
happy because applied to the pursuit OF
agriculture in the most conspicuous in
stance in which specific and manifest pro-
lection is given to the farmers; and at the
moment when the sugar beet industry Is
not only I'm its infancy. but in an infancy
so lusty and promising as TO demonstrate
the certainty of a rapid and prodigious
growth.
PLEA FOR THE FARMER.
Heretofore the farmer has been COM
PEELED 10 find his justification of protec-
tion from the standpoint of personal inter-
est in the prosperity reflected from the in
dustrial artisan. and in the main he has.
through good report and evil. been bravely
loyal. The American market for over $780,
CO0.OcO worth of sugar annually is rightfully
the American farmers. We shall encour-
nge no policy which delays the time when
he shall come into his own.
A TO the fancied duty to Cuba because
of a distress which is only apparent in the
pdmitted fact that every man on the island
has all the work he can do at higher wages
40 say that the low price of sugar Is a mere
business condition OF temporary character,
the cause OF which has probably been re-
moved within the past few days by the