Mower County transcript., 1903-09-23

EE1AdS:
FARMER BE COLUMN. !.
The sugar trust has now got control
LOT about all the beet sugar factories in
1.-The United States and has complete
control Of the whole ranch. / ain't for:
got that when Farmer Ben was pleadin'
for eciprocity for poor Cuba last win
ter and a year ago that lots Of the
Eninnies opposed it on the ostensible
grounds that the beet sugar men need
Led protection for their infant industry.
1t didn't matter that if every grain Of
Cuban sugar had been let in free of
| duty we wouldn't hav commenced on
hardly one side Of the total amount Of
raw sugar imported to meet the needs
of our country's consumption. There
was Che pressure Of the sugar trust for
shuttin' out Cuban sugar unless it paid
ed full tariff SO that the trust could make
a few millions more of unrighteous
profit and when they got after congress
with. their Doodle, do you spose that it.
would do any thing that the people
wanted and tohelp out poor, strugglin'
Cuba that Uncle Sam had adopted as
ward? No, sirree.. !. The sugar trust
lobby hitched up with the big mil
liOnaire steel and other trusts and COM
binations down east and they simply
ordered congress to do nothin' and con-
gress obeyed like whipped puppy. 1t
didn't matter that president Roosevelt
hissef took the part of Cuba and plead
for justice, do you spose that his word
would hay as much influence with con-
gress as the sugar boodlers? Now this
whole Cuban sugar tariff is of no earth
lyprotection to the beet sugar industry
only so far as it throws a few millions
more into the craw of the sugar
magnates so they can liv in bigger style
off the people.
Talk about delays in justice, we
haven't to 60 thousand miles to find
.aggravatin' instances of it. Here's
Doc, Ames of Minneapolis right in our
own commonwealth who was first in
dicted June II, 1902. over fifteen months
ago, and was. convicted last May 9Th,
lover four. months ago, and he is, scot
free as yet Of the penitentiary and it
looks like the! lawyers might keep the
q case hung up for months to come, dilly
Edallyin' aleng m monkeyin' with justice
4 and the interests OF the public, post
.ponin the decress Of the courts and
||ssnlakiIl court proceed oin, 5 farce aAe
Il s pofn he wors1
)ofS@. it all is that nobody ever knows
1 out of this delay, whether justice viii
finally win out or not and if it does, the
moral effect of prompt, quick stroke
followin' up the offense is always lost
| tell you there amt justice or righte,
BUSINESS in the tedious delay. The
wheels of justice move so slowly that
you hav to line up with a distant tree
to see 'em move at all. 1t looks to Far
mer Ben like this appealin' business
IN courts was bein' run into the ground.
What's the use of havin' trial in court
anyhow? An appeal is taken and the
whirlamagig Of judicial farce is set
agoin' and after appeal from one court
to another is followed up and months
and years is sometimes wasted and
meantime the criminals hav their liberty.
LII be jigged if the tria! don't some
times come right round for case agen
in the same court where it started. And
all this time the people are gnashin'
their teeth and clinchin; their fists over
the delays of punishin' conspicuous
criminals and once in while: they can't
hold in any longer andlet fly in a lynch
/ in. bee. .a~.s. & ~. s.s.
| 1t makes a man almost loseshis tenn
per totsee what monkey business there.
] is in this taxin' Of personal property. I
see the state board of equalization last
week raised the assessments Of farmers
tools q cool million dollars, and house
hold goods and such are poked UP.
a And all the liviD' time, there amt but
| one on fourth Of the personal property Of
the state listed and assessed tall but
Ithe poor farmer who has all his stuff in
sight, who can't hide his sheep and
cows and ploW and binder and bed
!: stead has al his stuff listed in full and
/ then the state board pokes5 it all up a
\ big notch to bring, up the total income
from from personal tax. And all this time
/ three tn Quarters Of all the personal pro-
perty in Mimi sofa goes scot free. 4 The
Etaxs dodgers can hide their stuff from
i the assessor but the farmer oar, f /. 81 Ehn