New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1916-10-14

cane in potato houses and keep i
for better prices, we must sell fol
what they are willing to pay
Just as soon as our crops are al
i bought up, the price Of sugar cane
again scars. Now, my fellow cit
liens, if the war holds the price
of sugar up high durin2 January
February, March, April, May
June. July, August and Septem
| Der, why doesn t the war hold II
up as we'll during October, Nov EN-
Der and December, while we are
harvesting our crops? 1t is be
cause of the Republican system
which spells all for the classes and
none, or as little as possible, for
the masses. The Democrats have
given us tariff, and they have
passed other laws to work in CO.
operation with it that will give
us a dual neutrality-suspicious.
going and protection coming.
Judge Martin will probably
tell you that President Wilson got
scared. and that is why he put
back tariff on sugar. Perhaps
so. Still, Mr.. Wilson could cas-
lily have allowed the bitter cry Of
our Districts crippled industries
to 90 up to Heaven in mortal
agony. Perhaps it was Mr.. Will
on who wanted to scare these big
sugar refiners, and the allied
money powers, by showing them
what would happen to them if
they did not stop robbing us D
our just proportion of the benefits
derived from a tariff.
Take it from me, they have
learned the lesson, and from now
on we should be able to live COM
ably. AS much as the monop-
olies. the allied money powers, and
the Wall Street spectators hate
Wilson, we should like him-be-
cause he is the laboring mans
friend, the friend of the poor, the
friend Of the masses. The many
good laws he has passed have
brought prosperity to this coun-
try. The Progressives will tell
YOU that the war brought pros
perity, q have already proved
the contrary and in the next
breath they will proclaim that
Wilson was too lenient with the
Germans and the Mexicans. Sup !
pose we had adopted their code
and gone to war-where would
ne the prosperity which they claim
he war brought to us? They
ell you Mr.. Wilson was too len
ent with the Germans and in the
lext breath they tell you that
;hese same Germans who are
lighting our English and French
our own blood, are all
against Mr.. Wilson ard fors Mr..
hughes, the Republican candi- f.
late. for President. If the Ger
mans thought Mr.. Wilson an easy
mark, they would be for him and
not against him. The Progressive.
tell YOU Mr.. Wilson's policy is
Ask them what they
would have done under similar
They confront us
with too many riddles. We have
no time to devote to trying to
solve their conundrums. We are
n peace, we are in prosperity, we
are happy in spite Of all they can
saw. and as that is the best test
IF efficiency. We should keep
what we have and make hay while
The sun shines. and not stop to
experiment. with riddles and CO.
The Democrats have given us
he Federal Reserve Act, which,
briefly, means that the Govern
nent places Government money,
which is our money, at the dis
oosal Of the Banks Of this coun-
ry, in sufficient sums to manip-
late our crops in the event that
he allied money powers attempt
% tie up their great wealth, as
hev have done in the past, to-
'reate money panics, resulting in
,reat financial disasters, such as
We had in 1907 when Theodore
roosevelt was President. Such
,anics are now impossible.
The Democrats have given US
he Farm Loan Bank, which,
'riefv, means that the farmers
an borrow government money,