Show REPUBLICANS AXD SUGAR I In his speech at Old Orchard opening open-ing the Maine campaign Tom Reed j I amongother things spoke of the Sugar I trust He said it had been charged that the McKinley bill gave the sugar interest onehalf cent pound protection i protec-tion while the new tariff gave but one fifth and that therefore the Republicans Republi-cans had ho right to complain To this he made the following reply I There are two answers to this both of fact upon which the people could ponder In the first place the Sugar trust in 1890 did not contrpl There were large refineries in Philadelphia owned by Harrison and by Knight and afterwards Spieckels who held the Pacific Pa-cific coast came over to Philadelphia and built the best refinery in the world and in full antagonism to the trust Ali Al-i these properties arc now owned by the trust which controls the production A protection which is jucUflable where there is c6mpetition may be utterly Unjustifiable Un-justifiable where there is nono I This admits that the McKinley hIll gave greater protection to the Sugar trust than the new tariff law It is well known that In 189091 the trust found its control over the market gradually grad-ually yea ening This was the result < > f < > zt > or the enormous profits of the bucS ness which brought new houses into existence On April 1 1891 the duty on raw sugar was removed In March 1892 the trust increased its capital stock 25000000 making the grand capital I I 75000000 With Its increased capital it soon absorbed the independent refineries re-fineries and ruled supreme It is now more than two years that the Sugar trust whose heInousness the Republicans Republi-cans havebut recently discovered has enjoyed the protection of the McKinley Mc-Kinley bill and it has collected every cent of it Reed refers < to Wilsons statement state-ment ffiaf k this year the trust 12000000 Hnd fhe old law that is the McKinley Itawf remained in force it would have dleted some 30000000 a difference of 18030000 > saved to the consumers of sugar by the Democratic tarIff Granting that the Sugar trut was not in control of Ihe market In 1SOO the inducements held out to sugar refiners re-finers by the McKinley bill made it certain that5 the trust would take ad antage ttle great oppirtinty offered of-fered it andlt did Who was to blame for all this If the seeds of the trust CU were In the McKinley law and they certainy were by whom were they placed there By the Republican party and no one else Who sows the wind is responsible for the whirlwind Neither of Reeds answers explains way this fact or attempts to But this is not all For two years the enormous profits of the Sugar rust under the McKinley have been known and denounced During all this time the Republican party has in np way expressed any opinion that the trust was making too much money nor ever once suggested readjustment of the sugar schedule of the McKinley bill Their anxiety lest the people should be robbed by the Sugar trust is a thing of very recent growth They have forgotten the beam while looking for the mote |