New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-08-01

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protective system which has been
fruitful source of monopoli =
throughout the nation. cnabilh :
manufacturers to sell their wares
to Americans at protective prices
and selling the same wares at
profit for lower prices IN foreign
markets. The public conscience
is awakened against the niqultN
of protection and it is folly tor
any people to take up the d'S'
credited doctrine.
They call attention to the tact,
that a controlling cause OF tn"
disaster to sugar is the manlpu.
lation of thesugar business by the
sugar trust a monopoly gigantic
and oppressive, similar to all 9th
ers which the Republican policies
have foStcred.
That a large number of sugar
manufactul ers, believing they
have Just cause Of complaint.
have filed suit against the trust
seeking to recover the millions
out of which it is alleged they
have been mulcted, and that the
sworn recitaIs of their petitions
show tie terrible blow which
this monOpo.istic trust may intlict.
That the policy Of the DEM
cratic party is to return to con
ditions where in each shall re-
ceive the reward of his labors
without paying tribute to protect
ed and thereby favored indrs-
tries. Equal opportunity to all
will invite the application of new
thought and new energies, to the
days labor with the fruitful re-
turns which must attend indus
try so conducted.
They are not willing to stand
in the dual position of advertis-
ing to the word that Louisiana
invite the homeseeller to the Iand
Of greatest fertility and divers;-
fed opportunities, that we have a
soil and climate which enables
JUS to grow the greatest variety
of crops during all seasons of the
year. and that we open the door
to homeseekers who will bring in.
tel!igence and the enterprise to
assist us in the development OF
these unmeasured resources, and
then turn over to the other state
ment. that Louisiana is In desola-
ton and ruin because 1t is no
longer fed out of the public
treasury in the shape Of pro-
tective tai if upon sugar.
The history of Republicanlsm
is a dark chapter in the life OF
Louisiana. If Theodore Roose
welt had received the Republic
can nomination for president in
stead of William II. Taft, there
would have been no Progressive
Party. 1t is impossible for one
so imbued with the principles OF
Republicanism as is the person
around whom this party rotates
to divest himself Of the principles
and traditions of the party and
as new personality announce
new principles and doctrines.
The Democrats assembled in.
conference appeal to the citizens
of the Third Congressional Dis
trict not to be deceived. They
appeal to them to stand firm III
the stru ggle in order that the
standard, so nobly carried for
ward in other victories by Gay
and by Price and by Broussard.
be not humilitated by a defeat,
but rather that it emerge from
the struggle with the record of
q new victory and sustained by
hands of those reaffirming un-
swerving allegiance to true De-
mocracy.
THE TWENTY YEAR TEST.
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Geo. w. Brock. publisher of tht
Enterprise, Aberdeen. Mr..
discovered that it was a quick
and safe cure for diarrhoea
Since then no one can sell me
anything said to be just a
good During all these years
have used it and recommended il
many times, and it has never dis
appointed anyone. For sale by