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Show Those Blundering Free Traders . A disgusted , Tariff for revenue Democrat writes the New York' World as follows: Grover Cleveland was a free trader trad-er and called Protection legalised rob bery. The last Deatoeratle platform 'Is slTeataBVfreeUen We-: t tart irenmels(;ai: harm. Do yea eefttMaitarttMkiti trade? p yen thfctkr the DsmeeraHf would have carried the electten en) a tree, 'trade ipJatferm. You charge the Louisiana; delegation- with, eorruptten aid, wMhj wrecking wreck-ing the country fergetttnger' Ignoring Ignor-ing the' part German of Maryland,, Bryce of Ohio and Smith of New Jersey took in that, affair.1 It was not the Louisiana Senators that cause the trouble. It It was. not, for the enormous profits the sugar refiners will reap out of this deal-It would not call to? mention. The consumers will get no benefit, the government will lose the revenue and the taxpayers taxpay-ers will have to foot the bill. Dump the sugar Interests out ot the Democratic party and you will never carry an election.. It Is the .other .side, .thatjs. .wrong., and not the sugar growers. Tariff For Revenue Democrat Professing devotion to the principle princi-ple ot a tariff that should produce revenue, without regard to protection the free trade party has enacted a tariff which loses $60,000,000 a year In revenue and tarns it over to the sugar trust. ' And the price of sugar sug-ar Is. mounting higher and higher a's the result of the European war. Mean while several million acres ot sugar 'land have been turned to other and less profitable production because of the free sugar provision of the Underwood Un-derwood tariff. So wo must pay moro for our sugar, while tho government must resort to additional taxation or else issue bonds to make up for tho lost rovenue. Great heads these free traders havel ' |
