Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-09-17

the euIlTe country Will De CONeIeu
with cement roads.
Morgan Shows New Haven the Door
1t is not altogether unusual for a
large banking concern to tell an un-
desirable depositor that their
account is so insignificant that they
no longer wish to dirty their books
caring for it, but the instance of the
House of Morgan serving notice on
the great New Haven railroad and
its subsidiaries to go elsewhere, is
unprecedented. Senator Norris of
Nebraska sees in the Morgan move
ment an attempt to wreck the New
Haven railroad.
The Postmaster of st. Louis.
1t is not often that the Postmaster
General reverses himself, but such
is said to have been the case in the
appointment of Colin NJ. Selph as
postmaster of st. Louis. The post
master General gave up his own ia
vorite and bowed to the White House
in making a choice.
The Tariff Bill and Sugar.
Now that the tariff bill is actually
on its way to become law Democra-
tic Senator'S are beginning to sus-
pect that the Sugar Trust has put
one over on them" to use a slang
phrase, but one that seems to fit the
situation. AS long as there was a
question about the removal of the
duty ON sugar the cry was kept UP
that the sugar tariff helped the
Trust. Now that free sugar is GER
tainty reports are beginning to crop
out that it will be worth from $685.
900, 200 to s51, 100000 year to the
refining interest by driving out
American grown sugar, the compete
tion of which has kept prices down
and limited the profits of the Trust
The fact is beginning to leak out
that the refiners themselves were be-
hind the claim that the Trust pro-
fitted by the maintainance of sugar
duties while under the new tariff
the Trust and its fellow refiners will
get their raw sugar cheaper and will
get rid of the home competition that
has cut largely into their profits in
recent years. The ingenuity behind
the idea of capitalizing its own dis
credit In order to get what it wanted
is. typical of the trust that devised
the corset spring addition to 1T:
scales in order to escape payment oi
its dues to the government. In the
final stages of debate in the Senate
several Democratic Senators includ
ing Walsh of Montana and New
lands of Nevada, declared that free
sugar would be of benefit chiefly tt
the Trust, but like their colleague:
lnhey were bound by the caucus edic
in favor of free sugar to vote TO-
this provision. The consolation th'
Democratic Senators have is to poin
out that for years the Sugar Trus
fooled the Republicans with its diff
ferential duty SO that they are no
the only ones to be taken in.
Caucus Works Well for Majority
With all the noise that was mad
concerning supposed Democratic op
position in the House, it was final
ly determined through the caucus
that the full Democratic support vii
back the currency measure. In tn
same way the tariff measure wa
perfected in caucus. The Republl
cans and Progressives have begun t
cherish plebeian hatred for the sc
cret caucus, which in former Reput
liean times had the support of prat
tically every man who is now oppos
ing it, as we'll as the opposition
most of the men who now are II
warmest supporters. The reaso
rests in the fact that it has prove
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