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Show On A Strictly Financial Basis IH WE notice that the sugar company in two ad- JH jacent states has advanced the price that it 'H will pay for beets next year toy from seventy-five iH cents to more than a dollar per ton. .l That shows that the managers of the sugar . company have not the slightest doubt of the good H faith of the Democracy in their contract not to H disturb the duty on imported sugar. And this is i1H good to see. These is nothing like reducing politi- lH cal principles to a strict financial basis. ill True, to see a great political party for a con- IH sideration of a few electoral votes sell out its most i iH ancient and sacred principle and slap in the face H its claim of a determination to insure to the peo- ' .H pie industrial freedom, has a raw look and to see ,1 the people of three or four sovereign states sell H their sacred votes for a little sugar and by the ?H act insult their governor, their supreme and dis- H trict courts, their own manhood and womanhood 'H and at the same time viomte a principle which they had clung to through all the mutations of ' H sixty-nine years, would ibe altogether inexplicable H except that we remembered that "ours is a pecu- ii;H liar people," and that "ours is a business God." )M In that light we can understand that to re- JM duce our religion and our moral perception to a H strictly financial basis and place them in a board IH that will see that the books exactly 'balance every IH night, is a plan that inflicts no wear and tear IH upon the ordinary business man and leaves the H horny hand of toil free at night to fold itself and H sleep the sleep of the just even as does the tired H horse or mule. H |