New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-09-26
Communicated.
WAR AN EYE-OPENER.

Under the heading, Which Is
The WorstY" the New York
World said editorially last week :
Without a few words of ex-
PLANTATION, Col. Roosevelt's de-
parture for New Orleans to fire
the hearts Of the PrOgressives in
that town may appear mysterious.
The fact is, number Of Demo
cratic sugar-planters in Louisi-
ana are sOrely afflicted because
their party has taken the tariff
off their product. They demand
social justice. hut they cannot
unite with the Republicans, many
of whom are colored. without
recognizing their black fellow
citizens as equals, and so, remem-
boring how the Colonel has sac
rificed the negro whenever it
suited his purpose, they have be-
come Bull Moosers.
In this case. as in that of the
trusts. Col. Roosevelt has no diff
ficulty in distinguishing the good
from the bad. There is no more
gluttOnous special interest i'll
America than the sugar grafters
OF Louisiana, but they are to be
. recognized as good grafters here
after because they promise to
support the Progressive ticket.
The SWEET COMMUNION
| which is to take place between
them and the LEADER of the
FORCES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
| this week will be highly interest
, ing in many ways, but especially
on its moral side. Somebody Oh
the spot may be able to determine
the matter. but at this distance
we cannot say which is the more
dishonest. the sugar men or the
| STANDING CANDIDATE"
One who is capable Of logical
reasoning can readily see that
this cataclysmie war in Europe
| furnishes a much more effective
tariff for our products than any
! party ever has or ever can at
ford us. 1t practically stops the
importation of nine-tenths of the
sugar formerly consumed by the
people of the United States.
Consequently the cane and beet
raisers of the country have such
a monopoly as they never had he
fore.
IL this war continues we may
expect to see sugar bring twenty :
five cents pound before next !
spring, and none will begrudge
our planters increased prices
that will come their way as a re- j.,
suit of these wars for which we
are in no wise responsible.
The point We wish to make !
just here is: that if a tariff for
protection is just and equitable
thing, then to be consistent. we
should pray for continr alton of
the human holocaust now in
progress on the continent Of Eu-
rope! If tariff for protec ton is
just and equitable thing we
should rejoice every time ves-
sci laden with sugar from a
foreign port goes down in the
ocean and the sugar intended for
us wastes itself in the brine OF
the deep. 1t was through this
process of reasoning that Henry
George, born and reared a Re-
publican in the New England
States. had his eyes opened to the
injustice of so-called protective
tariff after emigrating to Califor-
ria in 1849. Ships coming over
from other countries and round
the Horn from the east wer.
frequently lost in those days.
And. on contemplating these dis
asters his logical mind soon be-
came awakened to the injustice. |,
the selfishness. the barbarism OF
the whole protective policy. Not
only is it unjust to foreigners; it
Is ii anything even more so to
our own people. one hundred
of whom mist be held up,
that few thousand may be f.
nancially benefited.
We do not with the World con-
s;der the sugar planter graft
FRS. On the contrary We be-
lieve they are mostly honest men