The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-04-22

WASHINGTON, April 5.-.'Kill free
sugar or get out of public life" is
the ultimatuIm served tpom the Louis
Jana, dslegatiop, Ly, sQYe Of the big.
lSbis f lnP SnT Sfe qe! ps
ately fighting in the last ditch to throw
out of the Underwood Tariff Bill the
suggestion, that ,eventpally there will
bs! pc. duty On FaTasqgar ,,,
A.ouilana, r.GongIesslDen % recognize
! that they will 1ha "a, to- aetr.like an
army sof. gian ITS atonrolk, back the great
burden which thoY claim president
Wilson's sGheme,wiH PlaGe. upon the
sugar ppdastFHiatAf hps. been publish
pound duty be placed on, sugar for
three years and, that it. shall he free
! thereat ter "a s,,.-u adj ,..r
Here comes the tug. of:war. The
President, is, reportedi as SAYING that, if
the sugar men object, to this he will
,nTge, free, sugar immediately, The sugar
men retoEt that they win not eventual
lynobjeet to one, cent a pound, but that
For that reason The biggest Democrats
from the State are now. making a big
noise, at the Capitol, They threatened
the entire Disruption of the iDemocra-
tic party in Louisiana
d Making Eyes at New Party.
The high protection Democrats
threatened to go to the newly formed
Progressive party in the house.
Free trade is so sickening to these
high protection Democrats that they
would have left the party long ago
had there been any one to receive them
except Republicans, Prohibitionists and
Socialists. Now that there is Pro
gressive party, more than one high pro
lection Democrat from Louisiana has
been making eyes at it.
The Democrats must rely entirely
upon their own party in the senate if
"a free sugar schedule is to he passed
by that body. None of the Repub
leans, no matter how Progressive, are
going to stand for free sugar, it was
said today Some of them undoubtedly
will stand for reduction in the tariiT
OH sugar. ...t
Eristow Opposes Free Sugar.
Senator Bristow of Kansas one of the
Progressive. leaders, who returned to
Washington Yesterday, said today. en-
phatically that he would oppose as
strongly as possible free sugar
81 may vote for reduction in the
tariff on sugar" said the senator, "but
| believe that free sugar would inn
mediately put out of business producers
in this country whom we have encour.
aged to put millions of dollars into the
growing of sugar beets and sugar and
building refineries.
81 am as much of tariff reformer as
any of them continued the senator,
''and | intend to vote for reductions in
many of the tariff rates. But | do not
believe in going blindly ahead, putting
such articles as sugar on the free list
merely because of prejudice.
Would Not Reduce Cost.
senator Bristow said that free raw
sugar would be in rne interest of the
trust whieiis contfolsethe refneries of
cane sugar, and that he doubted that it
would to any extent reduce the cost oi
sugar 20 the consumer,
An absolutely cariam Development OF
the tariff situation is that Republicans
IN oVhuhN hphHNs. dAt HAlutlAuS
Tor an onslaught on Prcsi
dent Wilson as to his alleged dictation
of the Tariff Bill that will he pre-
sented'to the house next week. More
over, they are not going to wait long
before they start the attack.
WHAT'S the use having a congress -
asked the distinguished Republican sen
ator today, he was passing through
the White House grounds.
"Why are we called here at alll Why
not abolish congress altogether and vest
the authority In the President 10 EN-.
ploy sufficient clerks tdswrite ta-in and
other laws along the lines that suit
him! This is going TO be White
House tariff bill and nobody else will
tgureeih it."'n 49, -a
Terms 1t q Wilson Bill.