The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-05-07
Long Road Turns.

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that a break could be made in the
high protective tariff question.
Whatever else may be said OF
the Republican party, its manage
ment has been very shrewd, from
the beginning. There might be
grumbline in the ranks, and at
many times there has been grumb-
ling and threats of revolt, but when
orders came from party leaders it
has been very much the Republic
can fashion to step into line. many
times to the music of the crack of
the whip of discipline, and to
march forward. Ard usually to
victory, for victory lies that way
rather in spirit of rebellion, which
is apt to lead to defeat
1t was this spirit of blind Rs
publican obedience that fastened
the Dingley tariff upon this coun-
try-that breeder-in-chief of mill
ionaires and trusts, that robber of
the common people, that stifier of
competition, that worse-than-war
tariff, that put tax of from thirty
to ninety per cent. upon every me-
cessity of life, at the expense of the
poor and for the benefit of the rich,
and the of protected Industries,
once pulling infants, but now grown
to tyrannical giants.
All this is ancient history which
hardly needs to be rehearsed for
the ears of men who have kept
themselves informed of passing
events. and as for the rest, they do
not count for much.
1t was long road, and it SEEM
ed at times that it would never
turn, but the turn came, neverthe-
less, on the 18th day of April in
this year of our Lord, 1902, in the
Lower House of the American
Congress. when by good strong
majority it was voted to remove
the differential duty on sugar, said
differential being simply the diff
ference in duty between the raw
and refined sugar, and representing
the protection of the Sugar Trust.
1t is simply this way: raw sugar as
it comes from the plantations is
about as unfit for use as mud or
muck, and it must be refined by an
expensive process before it can be
used, so that infant industry, the
Sugar Trust, which by the grace of
the Republican party has been rob-
bing the American consumer by
the wholesale and retail-this pull
ing infant, which is always ready
to contribute good round sum to
the Republican corruption fund for
buying voters, asked or command
ed of the Republican sparty. re-
move the duty on this raw sugar,
and put good stiff duty on re-
fined sugar, and we think we can
live.
And so the Republican party did
as it Was hidden and created the
"differentiaI" which represents the
Sugar Trusts protection.
And now the House of Repre-
sentatives, one sell swoop cuts off
this differential!
So the world does move, after ALL
OF course the Senate-the Amer
ican House of Lords, the Million
aire Club of this great and glorious
country-will see to it that this
good work of the House is undone,
and that the proteo ion to the
Sugar Trust is restored. But that
counts for little. The fact remains
that the House of Representatives
which is in much closer touch with
with the people than is the Senate
voted on the 18th day of April,
1902, to strike a deadly blow at
this balefuI principle of high pro-
lection, which turns its hand over
to no other power, above or below.
at the business of making the poor
poorer and the rich richer. That
is the fact to set down in ones
memory, as pointer to still better
things to come, when the people
themselves get at this business of
asserting their own rights
Frog farming is extensively car
ried on in some parts of Canada
One of these farms in Ontario last
year produced 5000 pounds of
frogs legs and 1000 live frogs for