The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-10
LOUISIANA MAD
WILL BOLT

New Orleans. La. April lO.--Louis
lana, the most rock-ribbed democratic
state fall southland, threatens to go
republican this fall
Missouri, the mysterious stranger"
Of the famous McCutcheon cartoon
four years ago, may have company this
year.
This is the threat of newspapers,
business men, and planters, as the re-
venge of the state upon democracy, if
the democratic party succeeds in its
efforts to put sugar on the free list.
The most warlike language is to be
heard from the newspapers and men
Of promine ce who have always in the
past been regarded as the men who
would be democrats to their graves,
but who now fear, in the threat of free
sugar, the humiliation of the states
most cherished industry.
If the north ever thought the south
Slow the yankees would have their
eyes opened by the activity of the
campaign against free sugar now in
full swing. The soutreners are sure
of their own states delegation, but
their efforts are now being directed
toward cooperation with the beet
sugar manufacturers of the north and
west Quietly their campaign has
been launched, until it is now in full
swing, on the chain letter basis. Every
southerner who has a friend or bus
ness correspondent in the west and
north, has written asking that friend
to write to his congressman, especially
fthat congressman voted for free
sugar in the house, to protest against
the removal Of the duty. Each friend
is also asked to pass the word along
to all his friends, with the aim of so
bombarding the lawmakers with the
evidence of sentiment against free
sugar, that when the bill comes back
to the house from the senate, which is
expected to refuse to pass the meas
ure, the lower house will see the light
and reverse its former action.
The New Orleans Item, staunch
old democratic organ, is the leader in
the voicing of the threat of the state
to go republican. and break the solid
south, if the democrats pass the free
sugar bill.
The Pieayune, newspaper famous
in the days before the Civil War, and
now one of the leading publications in
the south, gives prominence to a state
ment by Charles A. Farwell, president
of the American Cane Growers Asso-
citation, when he says: Il say frankly
that | believe the time is ripe for
Louisiana to send republicans to con-
gresss
beet sugar states of the north,' con
tinues Mr.. Farwell, ''is because we be.
lieve this is the time to demonstrate
that the states of the south and the
states of the north are one in inter-
ests, and old sectional lines should be
forgotten. Louisiana has about $780,
100000 invested in the sugar industry.
Seventeen northern states have the
same amount invested in beet sugar
factories, but the interest Of the north
ern states should be even more strong
ly against free sugar because the beet
sugar factories of the north spend
500, 100000 year in buying beets of
the farmers, and these northern fac
tories, like those of our own states,
spend many millions every year in
wages to employees.
IF the sugar trust wins its fight to
eliminate the competition of the beet
sugar industry, the Louisiana cane
sugar industry will fall with the in
dustry in the north. With the trust
controlling the industry, by its mo-
nopoly, achieved through free sugar,
can any one suppose that the public
will be the gamer by the cutting of
the tariff The interests which now
are fighting for free sugar, won their
fight for free coffee, and coffee since
the day the duty was removed has
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