The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-03-28


land ihhdman treatment, according to
theltoEetgn elemsntEand theyas ast
Knows from II ssidept Wilson right
down{the Lines w when The bill
LIS put up foE5 him,S which fYduSbe9as
soon as the SenatescanS get a4yote on
he, the! president will avail himself:
Of the privilege andgo2poFtuniety 60
change; his mind, las hasSbeensat we'll
kn6wnlh abtts of his to do, time alone.
will TELL ss.4
The measure Is Of addttiona1alocal
Interest; because of the speechesfof
CongressSman Edward Cooper of the,
Fifth, and Nicely, Of the First. It was
! Cooper's maiden saffortsnn 1T Ehowel!
that. the Fifth district: has. sent a man;
Who has the ability TODD some4abls,
floor work when. the. OCCASION seems,
to demand It of him. His speech
EbristiedS with facts and with figures.
and he put the whole across. as the.
saying is..{ for the iaursl wreath.
Eeely's: speech4iwas OF the o~ratortcal
style and its delivery wasitt,nf keeping;
ECooper's was quite the contrary; II
was "a ll~nrd.driven alignment along "a.
striolsly Throughout course. !
speeches however! were for the pass,
ago of the bill, and in favor OF the
literacy test. section with an emphatic.
punch.
They arr tamrcrirg with the Door
mans coffee again. not to mention the
GOOD hoIse-wffc's free an1 untraulmel-
cd rights. and ore. going tosTepea1 tho
re spga- clause OF The far.famed
underwood tariff bill with the attach:
Il proyicn that4there %ill be free su.
gsr-ebsolute!yfrree-in 1890 "A. d. II.
:he meantime. NOR: tears for the po2r
iow.ntrcdden labnrfng man sw~hoicannot
have sugar in his coffee because OF
| this in.quitous democratic protective
t?) tariff and the poor housewife
who must cut down the amount OF
! pr serves canned because of the high
price OF the sacchrine white sand due
10 the usual need OF more and 0
and more money when the Democratic
oa-ty is III power.
For n sw .et, thing. sugar is sure
one mouth-puckerinE persimmon Tor
the administration in power. Its sob
! artists used to wiring tears from the
multitude when they painted with
wsepy words what a protective tariff
on sugar was doing to the poor labor
ing man who likes 1t in his Arbuckle.
and to his poor wife who had to for
goe the thrifty housewives browning
glory in the canning season. Then.
they switched of. the drrk scene and
rom thu multitude wrang braves and
ballots when they told how. when
their party. got into power. they
would make sugar free Of tariffs as
H%he first co1.crete demonstration CT
their contention that the high cost OF
living was dus to that. vicious protec-
ton policy OF the Republicans. When
they got the chance they did II all
right, they made sugar free. Then
they slapped back apart oc. tho tariff
and mad? sugar only partly free. but
promisedth that 1t would be entirely so
subsequently.}Tn the meantime, the
price Of sugar kept rising and rising.
and a protection Democrat-Bnll-Ncos.
or. was slut UP to Congress- from "a
Louisiana district because he, fought
the ton on its sugar record.
Now. the Senate committee on finance
is wrestling with the sugar question:
1t has 'tks recently passed House re.
| peal resolution before It and inciden-
tally a lot OF trouble. There arc all
sorts OF schemes. tor make sugar come
across With something like. its old
tina generosity as q revenue pro-
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