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Show A VICIOUS. SHAMELESS VOTE , .The Nation says r; V 'r -'' ' "AU the ' miserable calculations about how niany wretched dollars our tobacco and sugar Senators-have saved -for .their constituents? by killing jhe Philippine, bill, are quite beside the mark." . 'Indeed, they 'are, because they are not true. It would be impossible for the Philippines to make up in years 'the amount of asugar which" this country now purchases a from foreign .nations,' while the yearly increase amounts to more than all the sugar mills of Utah and Idaho can.be made to. produce. ' The kUling of the; Bill was a. base, ignoble surrender sur-render to the great American sugar trust, which has been ateady . leach upon the consumers of this country for. more than a generation past. The present pres-ent tariff v law' was : framed in the interest of that trust ;' the killing' of the Philippine bill was .done in the special interest , of the trust, and done . first to rob the Filipinos, .who are in one sense our wards, |