The age-herald., 1902-02-27
Washington Day by Day

By the laws of economies and common logic the government would be no less justifiable in spending the taxpayers money in promoting orange culture in - frozen Alaska than it is in enriching the beet sugar trust for inducing western farmers to engage in the culture of beets.
 If beet growing cannot be profitably engaged in without 1evying taxes on every other industry in this country then let the beet farmers try something else.
 It is grossly immoral and unjust to tax every miner and every cotton picker every fodder puller and every railsplitter' and every other toiler in Alabama, to p9S' tribute to beet farmers in Michigan for enriching combination of few mil- lionaires known as the beet sugar trust. For we have 1t upon the authority of Chief Baron Oxnard of this trust that laborers in the beetfields receive each but two dollars a month more than Is received by the canefield laborer of Cuba; and we know that Dingleyism forces the Michigan laborers to pay more than double prices for the heavy woolen clothing they are compelled to wear throughout the long and bitter winter, while the Cuban laborers are not re- ouired to wear wool at all. Thus Dingley- ism further enriches the millionaires of the beet sugar trust. while it robs and expresses the poor laborers in the beet fields, and so in this particular as In every other direction Dingleyism effect ually performs the purposes for which it was created-enriches the rich and robs the poor!
 But assuming that the Michigan beet grower does get a small share of the plunder of Dingleyism, the fact that he gets it in part at the expense Of the Alabama cotton grower makes him the receiver of goods stolen under a system of oppression worse in character and morals than highway robbery, for Ding leyism is paraded in the cloak of ''patri- otism'' to the tune of the Pharasaical Republican partisan cant of ''protection to American industries" while the ordi- nary highwayman takes the goods of his victim because of the frankly avowed desire of improving his own material con dition.
 In Michigan there Is said to be a little valley called the Saginaw valley" which had a contented population until mill llonaires like the late Senator Sawyer sawed off all the timber. In one year eleven hundred million feet of lumber was manufactured and after that record year there was a rapid decline. "For several years we have had a suffering people-no work no food" recites petition to Congress, written by a Wash ington lobbyist for the people of Saginaw valley, and praying that the Cubans be left to starve while the beet sugar trust is piling up wealth.
 "The wise Creator has fixed in the soil and atmosphere of Saginaw valley all the clements necessary for producing su- gar beets. Factories have sprung up, and our poor are again at work. Content ment is seen on their faces. The spirit of unrest, of hatred of the government. of capitalists and of public institutions has been greatly lessend. Sir. would you cast vote that would close down these new enterprises" (the beet sugar gold mines of the trusts) land thus deprive thousands in our Saginaw valley? Does it surprise you that a spirit of anarchy, with its dangerous issues. prevails?" And in "contented'' Saginaw valley too!
 The hired lobbyist must not be under stood as making a threat" but "the thousands of Saginaw valley know by T, ,V,a a.,ar1, n, ,o,,1h hay of Co0greGs who tS their friend"
 This rubbish Is a fair example of the wordy pleadings of the beet sugar trust.
 The trusts money pleadirgs are made in secret and do not get into print. Worse motives never governed any lob bying before Congress. The beet sugar trusts lobby is as depraved as the lobby of the anti ti-Nicaragua canal millionaires
 Probably sixty thousand people greet ed Prince Henry between the Pennsyl- vania railroad station and the White House on the occasion of his first ap- pearance in Washington Monday fore noon. There was much cheering and the utmost respect was shown the visitor, but the decorations were miserably poor, except in the instance of one newspaper building and a German saloon. Even the Willard hotel, in which Prince Henry's suite stayed for a few hours, failed to display a German flag. This exhibition of execrably bad taste was doubtless due to ignorance.
 T The Washington hotel keepers, mer- chants. and bankers did not know how to receive a foreign visitor of high rank; they were unaware of the fact. even in- stinot of courtesy teaching them noth- ing. that in every civilized country of the world the national flag of visitors, whether their importance IS due to high ranl, or to great numbers, is displayed from all prominent buildings In London, for example the American flag is half the year through as conspicuous as the Union lack, and relatively this is true all over Europe Even when a foreign warship visits European port there is a liberal display of the flag flown by that shin: and when an ordinary rear admiral goes ashore to make official calls the flag of his country is flown from the municipal buildings
 On one occasion this correspondent was in Queenstown, Ireland. town of some eight thousand inhabitants, when this same Prince Henry, then captain in the German navy, visited that port in com mand of his ship which was one of a