The age-herald., 1902-03-10
Washington Day byDay

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 doing so at the command of a corporals guard of millionaires, is by the beet sugar trust itself held up to view as mere stewed rat of the gutter.
 In fact the production of beet sugar the past year was about hundred thousand tons, or one pound of every five and twenty consumed by the American pub lie. Through the easy-going medium of a Special agent" of the census office who obligingly accepts as truth the represen- tation of the beet sugar trust, it is de- clared that the total production of the nine beet sugar factories, the whole num- Der of factories in operation for the year was a hundred and eighty-fve thousand tons.
 Sugar for refining was quoted in New | York today at less than three cents, and l the costliest sugar in the market at five cents a pound. Accept the trusts figures as accurate and assume the average price l for beet sugar to De four cents and we have the total rl oceeds Q tn" trust to De s14, 440,O 900. Yet the representatives of the trust swear they paid to farmers s14.- 100000 for the raw beets. Evidently somebody has lied.
 Lord Chief Baron Oxnard of the beet sugar brigade of Dingleyism robbers bore witness that the tariff protected beet sugar to the extent of nearly one-fourth of the price of sugar admitting the some what extravagant figure of four cents a pound on the average. Say, by way of argument, that Dingleyism paid the trust $3,00O0OO. This is, roughly, four cents in tax upon every man, woman and child | in America.
 1 Accept the sum total of $14700,000 al- | legged to have been paid the beet farm CTS" of the great Saginaw valley" and elsewhere in the West-and 1t is known that these farmers" are mere hirelings l of the trust-and the result Is that on this score every person of any age in | Alabama paid eighteen cents to enable those Western ''farmers'' ito live!" In other words, according to the figures of the beet sugar trust, Alabama paid about a third of million dollars in tribute to a few Western farmers.
 | Assume on the other hand that Lord
 
 protection" of Dingleyism to beet sugar, we find that the Republican party has sacraficed every principle ot right l and justice in order that the few mllioE- aires who constitute the beet sugar trust may exact $3 OOO.OO or whereabouts, fir m the American people.
 Clearly the beet sugar trust has pllr- chased the Republican party and with the wretched bargain Is thrown in the hontr of the American people and the integrity of Cuba. And it was for Cuba that we expended four hundred millions of rnonsy on a mad folly we called war, thereby mourning disastrous obligations from which our country can never be freed.
 
 Verify madmen drunken of lustful things now revel in the seats of the mighty!
 The cackling of the self-evident lie that the Republican party went to war to free the slaves of the South is finally silenced by the tumultuous partisan cheering that American honor has been sold for and in consideration of three million dollars annually paid to a few millionaires who for purposes of public plumber have in stituted the new infant industry of raising beets.
 Beets-beets-beets! That Is the war cry of the degraded and corrupt party of Dingleyism today. Here's to the noble billionaire barons-to the devil with ev- erybody else!
 And why this renewed and insane rep etition of the shout of the bandits of the billions?
 Nine beet sugar factories In opera ton, and eleven building" Twenty, all told, unless the people cancel the in- famous compact of rascaldom. pos sible" nine and forty millions invested. with a working capital of eight million two dollars and forty cents!'
 For this monstrous compact of the damnablest economic heresy and fraud ever entered into, every person who drinks a cup of coffee or tea and every child who eats a lump of sugar made into candy Is taxed.
 Upon every person, old or young, living In the United States this Dingleyism up- on sugar alone imposes tax exceeding the half of dollar. Why, it would be most profitable investment for the peo- pie to buy out all sugar planters in Louisiana and all beet farmers" Tn the great Saginaw Valley and elsewhere, and suffer the sugar plantation and the beet farms to grow up in bushes and brambles!
 If ever a nation upon the earth was given over to a government of robbery. outrage, .'apine and lust that nation is the United States, the most outrageous.y misgoverned of all lands! The forms of our government were wisely planned; but the fathers of the Republic could not foresee Dingleyism and the corruption of the year of grace, 1902. Even as the em- pire of Rome was sold to the highest bid der so today an Oxnord does what a Rockefeller has the self-respect not to do-buys our government. And when an Oxnard can buy our government, why should we sicken at the vast powers ar- rayed against the Nicaragua canal?
 The regular deadhead advertisement of Bishop Potter of New York, written by himself for money motives, and in which at this late day he has caused the pub lie to be informed that he Is personally closely attached to Booker Washington, will be accepted at its true value in the South, and Southerners will be inclined to sympathize with the respected presi- dent of the Tuskegee school for the com