The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-08-16
NUMBER 2
RIGHT TO DEMAND JUSTICE.

&
Square Deal, as Promised by
Leader of Party and Reiterated
in PIatform-unfair Treatment OF
Sugar industry Resented.
Among the many notable speeches
at the big meeting held in New
I Iberia on the End instant TO endorse
/ the course Of Senators Thornton and
Ransdell in their efforts to prevent
Il the annihilation of the states lead
ing industries by adverse legislation.
/ that delivered by Hon. r. N. Sims.
OF this city, is generally conceded to
have been one of the most forceful
and convincing, both as regards
j forensic eloquence and clear-cut
! statements of fact. Couehed In
chaste and expressive dictIon, and
| delivered extemporaneously with char
acteristie vigor and oratorical effect,
Mr.. Sims address made a most pro-
found impression upon his large audi
ence and evoked an enthusiastic out
burst Of applause and appreciation.
/ The full text OF the mastery effort
Is appended herewith:
Whether at Nashipur or Babylon
whether the cup with sweet or bit
/ ter run,
The wine of life keeps oozing, drop by
drop.
The leaves of life keep falling. one
by one.
. THAT, my friends. Is the inexor-
able law of nature. No stronger or
more unbending is the law which
governs all living things. In the fight
for home, for sireside, for all. The
smallest and the largest of God q
creatures fight for these things and.
If their cause is just, it has seemed
to me always that q higher power
Strengthens them, even to the end.
So fought Leonidas and has little
| band at famed Thermopylae, and the
heroism of that day. and the justice
of that cause, will be an inspiration
! throughout all the ages
"A fight is won or lost In many
ways Sometimes it is with the
! sword; sometimes by written or
spoken words, or by the ballot. To-
day we must find expression by writ
ten and spoken words. Only through
the medium of the English language
can we plead the justice of our cause
| to all just men and voice our ap-
proYal of the course followed by our
senators. All other avenues seem
closed to us now.
! The house OF representatives has
| written It's share into the laws OF
our country, calling for free sugar.
The senate Of the United States
! threatens us today, at the behest, II
seems to me, of man Whos q few
short months ago, stood before the
whole people OF this country as the
! larchangeI Of justice, promising 70
ali the people the Democratic square
j deal. Today his Influence ID strorig
SO strong, in fact, that we shuddeE'
for fear the senate Of the United
States will follow in the footsteps OF
/ the house and write the iniquitous
schedule of free sugar into the Tn
1 derWood Simmons BILL
They would attempt, my friends,
to throttle an industry that has been
growing for one hundred years;
/ whose life and success has been con-
| temporaneous with the life and sue
i cess of the government itself. No
| party before ever sought to strip the
sugar industry of all help. I do not
believe there is a man WithiM the
hearing of my voice who will live to
see any other party try to do SO
again. Why, ali the great states
men of all times have agreed that
the greatest and surest success-the
surest prosperity-of a nation lay
| In its ability to feed and clothe it.
self, and to produce the manufactured
/ necessities, for peace and war. M
poleon, you viii remember, when
beset by all the powers OF Europe, al
most, recognized that great principle.
land he sought then, when too late.
/ to stimulate the interior development
of the French nation.
Now, my friends, we, during all
the life of this industry, have been
urged to build it up. We were In
Igood faith The people of this state
poured out their energy and thei1
capital, IN good faith, in the devel
/ opment of this industry, and we have
a right today to ask that we be
] treated in good faith. We are :
i peaceful nation, but sometimes 1t II
that even the peaceful man OF honol
must fight, and when he does. the
chances are large that he must meet
a foeman worthy OF his steel. Taks
Ens today, with our tremendous coas
line. and our niggardly policy in th'
development of our navy. Why, ]
war should come tomorrow, even wit
little Japan, we might repel invasion
and I believe we would, but the ave
nues which lead sugar into this couu
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