The age-herald., 1902-01-27
Washington Day By Day

Washington. January A.-tSpecial)-Be- hold. the mighty Oxnard has appeared upon the congressional scene of Jobs and jobs and his sugar-sweetened voice is heard in the corridors of the capitol as he pleads to the ways and means com mittee to make the sugar trust richer by taxing the nine hundred and ninety ana nine consumers in order to protect the thousandth man whom the trust suffers to. receive but a bare living.
 Oxnard-a poetic name derived from the old English oxenyard, though swineyard might be better in view of the want-all haRgishness of this particular trust-this MT. Henry Tafy Oxnard, president of the American Beet Sugar Association and beat everything else lobby be it known Is here paving the air and likewise paw ing the protected" Philadelphia-m carpet on the floor of the committee that made Mckinley President.
 Oxnard of the sweetest business is out for the s-t-u-f-f-the money of the toilers WnO llhe u Dlb OA SuBoi AAA eaiSsA ANHfNS tive cups of coffee or taxed tea and bit of pie for each of their respective chil- dren on Sunday-and Oxnard would have you know he will have what he wishes. Oxnard makes the astounding state ment that his particular trust is not trust like other rich mems trusts, but is merely an association for the advance ment of the general welfare. That is what he intimated today, and one listening to his profoundly logical plea half expected him to undertake to send stick of chalk candy to every child of the poor on this continent, 50 benevolent was his simula- tion.
 Oxnard made many other statements that would be astounding if we had not become sick unto death of them through Dingleyism and the other isms for making gold mines for the few these thirty years and more.
 Oxnard demanded sugar in hisn, and he didn't care what became of the cot ton-growers of Alabama, 'durn the'r fool hides" Serves them right no doubt OK nard thinlN What earthly reason could there be in the government helping the cotton-growers. debt-ridden and for ever toiling as they are, when the billionaires of the sugar trust want more, more, more?
 Oxnard took a shy at Hayemeyer special brand of cane sugar trust but that was what the Scotch call a 'haf- ver''-false, in short-for sugar is sugar. when it isn't sand. You know, and In these days of universal taxation. which as Carlyle said of universal suffrage, spells Universal mnation," it is high time for all sugar monybags to stand to- gether and be fuller filled with the earn ings of honest labor.
 Oxnard scorned sentiment for public money and dem anded that poor Cuba s humble petition for less import tax on sugar be stripped of sentimentality and all extraneous consideration thing not of force to put money in great Oxnard's safety vaults being of course sentimental and extraneous.
 Shall the beet sugar trust suffer the loss of any part of It's profits because the American people presume to wish to buy  sugar as cheaply as they can?
 That is in effect what great Oxnard ask ed of the committee of Congress whose present business Is to provide ways and means whereby a few rich persons may rob the millions of millions.
 Most vicious" was the phrase great Oxnard applied to Cuba's gentle petition against robbery by American law. Yet Oxnard admitted that laborers on Gu s23 a month, or only two dollars less than the beet sugar trust allows beet growers to pay their laborers, and Ox- nard further admitted that the import tax imposed by this government pro tects'' him to the extent of 94 per cent; or virtually it allows him about double the real market value of his sugar This difference the people are compelled to pay the trust for Oxnard admitted that laborers in the beet fields were paid only $25 a month each, which Is as low as any barnhand gets in the West where the beet is grown.
 An, Oxnard-great Oxnard-grasping and selfish oxnard-pawing and protect ed' Oxnard-scorning and jeering oxnard -Oxnard of lesalized plundering under "protection'-you may get of Congress what you wish in taxation of the country, but you can't hoodwink the public; you may plunder the poor, but you can't fool them
 This city of the nation, which for a month has been bubbling over on ac- count of MT. Carnegie's great gift of ten millions of money for the higher educa- ton of the highly educated sons of the wealthy and the wel-to-do, without a thought for the multitude of young m en who are unable to secure university ed- ucation, has suddenly cought its breath full of bubbles because of the report that Billionaire Rockefeller has determ- ined to give to his crazy university of Chicago a round sum in spot cash of six and twenty millions in order to enable the theatrical Harper to fully carry out his plans. Good and pious people all over the country may hope that MT. Rockefeller stance. He has already given to the Chi cago University something like fourteen millions. and if he makes his gifts forty millions his action will be unfortunate for that higher morality of the people that is based upon respect for religion.