Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-12-02

truth. The party will be a unit
on all measures affecting the integ-
rity OF the party during this regu-
lar session, and whenever their
able leader, John Sharp Williams,
calls on them they will line up.
The few men who did not vote
with their party were impelIed to
vote as they did because they were
under instructions from their re-
spective CONSTITUENCIES to vote
against Cuban reciprocity. The
policy of the democratic party in
Cuban reciprocity vote was as i
had outlined it some time ago in
this correspondence. The demo-
Gratis did all they could TO get an
amendment to the bill taking the
ditferential from the refined sugar,
which would have reduced the
price of sugar to the consumers in
this country, bat which would have
been a blow to the Sugar Trust.
This the republicans would not
allow, and the brutal republican
majority brought in rule not to
allow any amendments to he intro
duced and gagged the democratic
minority. We placed them on
record by a yea and nay vote on
their gag rule and that is as far as
we could go. We were then com
PEELED to vote for the bill reducing
the tariff on raw sugar twenty per
cent. or 60 on record as against
tariff reduction, when it is well
known th8t Is what we are asking
for all the time. If we had not
done so we would have been on the
defensive in the next campaign
when we demanded tariff reduction
in our platform and from the stump.
Some comment has been made
here about the able editorial of
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst in
the New York American, in which
he disagreed with the democratic
majority about voting for the bill
after the republicans refused To
take the differential from refiend
sugar. Mr.. Hearst is right from
his standpoint. He knows, we all
know, that this bill simply makes
a present TO the vicious Sugar Trust
of about 81, 900, 600 a year, as the
Sugar Trust is the only importer
of raw sugar in this country, and
as is also well known, Mr.. Hearst
is the most unrelenting and impla-
cable foe of the criminal trusts in
this country, and can see nothing
good in any bill that will feed them.
He is right, and this sort of bill is
no way to reduce the tariff. That
is all very clear 10 his enlightened
vision, and he also understands
how it was that the democratic
amendment To cut the trust out of
this present was voted down by the
republican party by refusing TO
take the differential from refined
sugar, but it would be rather en-
barrassing to a democratic speaker
in the next campaign to try to ex-
plain all this to the average audi
ence when he was suddenly asked
the question, why the democratic
party refused to vote for reduc-
ton of the tariff on sugar when
given the opportunity. When any
party is compelled To explain its
attitude it has weakened its case
before the people. The only way
we will ever get real tariff reform
without helping some trust and
give the people the full benefit of
it is to elect a democratic Presi-
dent and Congress.
There is lot of comment here
and considerable amusement that
the erstwhle army pill-peddler,
Gen. Leonard Wood, should at the
psychological moment, when he is
being toasted over the Senate grid
iron, break out and get into the
hero class by butchering several
hundred practically inoffensive
MOros over in the Philippines on
the pretext that they have become
obstreperous. From the way the
dispatch reads he must have his
friend, the ex-convict Bellairs, still
acting as his press agent. 1t seems
that aftea five days fierce fighting
in which several hundred Moros
were killed, there was only one
American slightly injured. AL
though our men were repeatedly
ambushed, yet only the "niggers"