April 1 1697
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ous devise some means by which the
tailinar1d onn nvnifl tha recent rieciMinn
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of the supreme court.
The Nebraska legislature has made
great savings iu appropriations for the
next two years. We will give the exact
figures as soon as possible. It is our
opinion that the total saving will reach
nearly half a million.
The president and congress do not
eern to understand that there are two
ways to meet the deficiency in the treas
ury, Reduce expenses or increase the
revenues. They devote all their atten
tion to the latter method.
Senator Allen has introduoed a good
bill in the senate. It provides that any
one found around tbecapitol attempting
to influence legislation shall be punished
by a fine and imprisonment. It will
probably not become a law at the pres
ent session.
The railroad companies are attempt
ing to organize "bureaus of information
and statistics" iu the place of the freight
and passenger associations recently dis
solved on account of the supreme court
decision. The same officers who were
at the heads of the "association" will
now be the heads of the new "bureaus."
We shall see whether the court will toler
ate such open and plain evasion of its
decision. Common people would un
doubtedly be punished for "contempt of
court" under such circumstance!). If the
court was sincere in its decision it will
see that ip is enforced.
It is expected Senator Wolcott will be
sent abroad to work up free-silver senti
ment. He Is welcome to the honor. Fow
Americans crave the destinction of being
alloted the embarrassing task of cring
ing at Europe's feet in tearful supplica
tion, beseeching despotism's permission
to enact flnaucial legislation. No man
equal in intelligence to a hypnotized ass
would allow himself tu be made such an
object of mingled pity aud scorn, even I
by his party president. The thought of
A United States senator being cajoled,
jostled and laughed at over in England
is uncanny. If he should all atonce "see
himself us others see him" what smoth
ering shams must sway his being. Ob,
Wolcott, don't go;' spare us, a oiiee
proud natiou, this additional humilia
tion and disgrace at thy bauds.
The deficiency in the reveuuea of the
treasury of the United Slates has aver
aged about $U5,(HtO,tHii) per year for
the last three year. The new tariff bill
will rai mor than tbr times that
amount each year. Of eour it is a
great bltwaiug to the com.
moil people tu jr thM nor
Uit'US ruu, pile up muuey in ths
trwaaury to I imtd ml by a rwckl
ihuT". The HHpt would gladly in
jur a bill tu rnlwt ths acevMutry rev
enues lo pay the euro u I tpn of
the yovrraitttat, but will not indoms
ou I tint ixr to such rtrui. Had
the incotiM taft tut kn drcUr4 uuciin
tttulioaal thr wM fcav Uu n
dnuy. The pral tmrM U asing
tfc dociwy arguuoat U p!uaUr and
rub lira la a great dgr Istta
m twlwr. It did not take f ;iu'J,(Hv
Chh) of brd la pay a f 1(nI,hh MOO d
trisavy, smjoo know that, Tk
boads vers Uud fur otbtr purpo.
TUB RAILROAD COMMISSION.
Oue of the great and all absorbing po
litical questions in state politics, one
that will not down, is control of rail
roads. Ever since Nebraska became a
state the people have been subject to ex
orbitant and excessi ye charges by the
various roads doing business within the
state. The demand for relief resulted in
the legislature of 1 887 creating a state
board of transportation. The law was
apparently drafted with the view of al
lowing the board only very limited
power, but never-the-less, in -1898 an
action was brought before the board for
the reduction of freight rates that re
sulted in a cut of 33!iper cent, by way
of a compromise. As the executive state
officers composing the board, since the
enactment of the law np to the present
time, bavo been better friends to the cor
porations than the people, but little has
been accomplished except the adjust
ment of individual complaints and those
relating to localities in which the gen
eral public had no interest. This failure
to grant relief culminated in the maxi
mum rate law, now being up in the
fedttral supreme court Governor Hol
corab In his message to the present legis
latnre, realizing that no determination
of "the casecould he reached, during the
present session of the legislature, and
that it would be unwise to repeal the law
while under consideration by the court,
advised that nothing be done in the
matter of establishing rates, but that
the legislature should extend the powers
of the state board of transportation,
quqting from bis message, "if the board
has not sufficient authority, as now con
stituted, to fulfill the objects of its crea
tion, vlie law should be , amended so as
to give it more extended powers. The
necessity for the malntainaiice of an
office charged with the duties of enforc
ing all provisions of the law regulating
railroad traffic in the state, is quite ob
vious to all."
In compliance with the recommenda
tion, a conference was held in which the
governor, a sub-committee of the house
railroad committee, and the secretaries
of the board took part, and certain
amendments to the law were agreed
npon. J. W, Edgerton, one of the secre
taries, prepared - the bill, and submitted
the same to the governor and attorney
general for their approval after which it
was introduced in the bouse by Mr.
Zimmerman chairman of the railroad
committee, as house roll 428.
The amendments are a substantial
copy of the Texas law, and changes the
present mode of procedure by making
the order of the board final, unless re
versed or modified in a direct action
brought by the railroad company
against the board.
As the law now stands, the company
can be compolled to obey the order of
the board only by an action brought
against the company.
The amendment also provides that all
actions brought against the board to
modiiy or set aside the order of the
board shall take precedence over all
other cases pending in the court where
such action is brought. It gives the
cotrfpany ten dayain which to bring the
action. The bill is fair and just, and
only aims to make the roads act and
not delay, and it is impossible to con
ceive what motive any member of the
legislature, who poses-as a friend of the
people, cau have in opposing this mens
ure. ,
We hope this measure may become a
law, as in the event of the supreme court
sustaining Brewer's decision, the state
board will be the only means of relieving
the people from the unjust freight rates,
and they should be given
possible.
all the power
STATE WARRANTS.
At the beginning of Treasurer Me
serve's term of office and at the opening
of the present session of the legislature,
the highest price that could be realized
for state warrants ranging from $ 50 to
$500 was 05 cents on the dollar. They
very soou advauced to 9(J cents, where
the market remained firm for some time.
Mr. Moserve, as fast as he could call in
the funds belonging to the state, begun
paying its obligations and calling in
the warrants longest outstanding. His
energetic action iu this direction has
been very fruitful, and warrants at this
time sell readily at 98 cents, aud this
in the face of the fact that bis predeces
sor left a shortsge of over half a million
dollars. If Mr. Meserve had the mouey
due from Mr. Hartley, it is practically
certain that ths state's warrants would
be selling very neurly at par. It mum
that ateru capitalists have not only as
much but more confidence in a set of
populist ollUinU than thy have in the
gang of republican rubbers that hits in
fested the capital building lor ths last
thirty years.
Mr. MMrve's position iu handling the
credit of the state Is a moat trying oae,
and the manner In ahirh he has tilled it
merits the prat of all rttiiens interest!
In ths wt-lUre id the state,
rinihiMui Mtiu,
a. f a i i
iitisitt mn in uncoiu report a
light ittcrae la bui over lat trar.
This t vastly amiustej fur, Treasurer
Mwr has paid out several huH.li-!
tfcuunaad dollar of mouey hoard'd by
rvpattlaas rawals lor prial gala, and
to this tiWut has rrUd tfctriitftty
(a 1st Rtuay iarkt, CoaBdearw la oar
stale Uaantwa has Wa rtrd Ij the
lata talma la lraa, and our stats
warraatsarftriig pur and are sow
eagerly sought for by borne and foreign
investors.
Such "revolutionary repudiation" bas
proved to be a good thing for the state.
Suppose our taxpayers apply a little of
the same kind of "revolution" to our
city government to see how it works.
A recent Journal editorial asserts that
there are others implicated with ex
Treasurer Bartley ia looting the state
treasury. If so, who are they? Are
they leading republican politicians who
staked their future on continued republi
caa success in this state and have lost?
Are these the gentlemen with whom Mr.
Bartleyhas "deposited" theschool funds
of tne state and on whom be cannot
safely draw without endangering a
panic?
In this connection it may not be im
proper to inquire whose names are signed
to the notes held by the Maxey Cob es
tate? Who borrowed of the kind-hearted
Maxy, failed to repay, and thus drove
him to suicide? Are they the same
chaps who are now seekiu'g to perpetu
ate their rule after having robbed the
people of the county aud city of more
than 150,000? And it may be well for
the people to ask where is the f 100,000
now reported as cash on hand in the
city treasury. Does any part of that
hundred thousand dollars consist of
notes of leading campaigners on whom
it would not be safe to draw without
endangering loss to the city? If not,
why is not that $100,000 paid out on
city obligations anltbus interest saved
to the city and diseount on city war
rants to laborers?
OVKBPKOnt'CTION NOT THE CAUSE.
In an Interview recently published
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson states
that overproduction is one of the chie'
causes of bard times. Ia other words if
this year's crop were only half "what it
is the farmers would have twice as. much
money, and the country would bo pros
perous. There would not be so many
hungry people. Thoy would have less to
eat but more money. '
The Independent would suggest as
the proper cure for overproduction an
increase in the amount of money with
which to handle the enormous crops,and
a proper regulation of railroad rates to
place the products within the reach of
the consumers. To cure the hard time's,
regulate the trusts and see that no man
or set of men take more than a fair and
legitimate income from the necessaries
furnished to the people. It is the machi
nations of the oil trust, sugar trust, cof
fee trust, tobacco trust, and the like,
each taxing every farmer an exorbitant
profit upon the products he must have,
that makes it impossible for him to be
prosperous. He is compelled ,to sell his
products in a market open to the compe
tition of the world. He must buy his
supplies from trusts and combines
among whom there is no competition,
and where greed is unlimited. These are
some of the causes of the depression in
business.
II. W, Hardy, our candidate for city
treasurer, was born in Wyoming county,
New York, was brought up on a farm,
was educated in the district school and
Genesee college. He lived near where
he was born for forty-five years. He
held there several bfflces of trust in
town and, county. He moved west to
grow up with the country in 1868, stop
ping three years in Aurora, 111.; and in
1871 pushed onto Lincoln, Nebraska,
In 1877 he was nominated by the repub
lican party for mayor aud was elected,
thefugh the party had been defeated for
several years iu succession, just pre
viously. He was again nominated at
the close) of bis first term and re-elected.
His record as mayor is well remembered
by every old citizen. He also served two
terms on the school board. In both
cases he found warrants selling at a dis
count and together, with the other offi
cial members succeeded in briuging them
to a par. City warrants were paid off,
$4,000 put into the basement of the
state university building which had been
condemned as unsafe, and $4,800 of
surplus left in the city treasury, and oil
without increasing the taxes a single
mill. His life for tweuty-six years in
the uity of Lincoln speaks for itself.
There is not a man better known or
better understood, for what he believes
he talks everywhere and to everybody.
He is always found on the side of the
downtroddeu and oppressed. Many a
colored man remembers the interest he
took in their welfare as mayor at ths
lime of the noted exodus from the south.
Mr. Hardy Is not a young man, and
yet he is nut as old as were some of our
presidents, and not as old by many
year as (iladton.
It has now developed that a portion of
Mr, '.., iV ' stealiug wr uw-d in his
frantic effort lo fleet I'harles K. Caaey
trvamirvr, and in this way cover up the
real eonditiun of the Ktats's treasury,
When one republican ihi-U another
thr is vry little infortunium given to
the pubie),
la ll Krganiiatlttu id the pr ttt e.
a I . . ji a. . .
i"'".. f.inoaoi ,eiiraka was
the popalmt nomine .r vivf of the
boil, reaving H.eiJJ popultM f ,
Tfe committee at poinl4 lo latest!
gals In stitl im sill Had out. If
poMible, ho tauc taoaty tUrlWy 4
la trying to swurs Cnwj't !vviiu&,
THE JOURNAL'S POSITIOX.
The one thing about the state Jour
nal most admired by politicians is its
loyalty to the party." In the election
of Mayor the Journal ia spite of its pre
vious utterances is supporting the "reg
ular nominees." We clip below from
the issue of April 5tb, 189G, just about
one year ago. The chief organ of the
boodlers and gamblers realized then the
present mayor was a failure, and that
the promised prosperity to follow in the
wake of "the wide open policy" bad not
materialized. The condition at present
is even worse. Crime goes unpunished,
and yet the Journal is frantic in its
efforts to re-elect the present mayor and
continue the "reign of shame." The
Journal declared the system of regula
tion a failure, it said:
A HOUSE CLEANING.
"Some resolute men wentoutyesterday
after ooon and began the work of clear
ing Lincoln of open gambling houses and
other places where the law has been
defied during the past year. They prom
ise to keep up the work uutll the job is
completed, and thea they will ask the
people to take some action to prevent
a return to the conditions that have pre
vailed since the present city administra
tion came into power lost April.
"We believe they will receive substan
tial support from the business men of
Lincoln and also from the general pub
lic. The people have waited patiently
for the city officers to act. They have
listened indulgently, if not approvingly
to the explanation that "reasonable and
practical control" of gambling houses
and similar places would prove more
satisfactory than harsh repressive meas
ures. Tbey have given the city adminis
tration one whole year to work out the
system of "regulation" and at last rea.
Iize that they have been mercilessly
duped. Instead of wise regulation of
these evils we have no regulation at all.
The gamblers have been given their own
way so long that tbey are even aspiring
to regulate the affairs of the city them
selves. They are active in politics.
Tbey not only keep their places open at
all times, but tbey parade themselves
and their business on the sidewalks, in
the very teeth of the police, and talk
loftily of the "protection" they enjoy.
"The people are sick. They have hod
enough. In another year they hope to
change the situation through the en
larged opportunities given theiniividual
voters by the new Lincoln system of
making nominations. In the meantime
tbey will take the matter in their own
hands so far as they can by bringing
actions aganist the gamblers, the keep
ers of gambling houses and the men who
rent rooms for unlawful purposes. If
the mayor will join in the moveinent,the
law breakers will surrender without
striking a blow. If the city authorities
remain friendly to the gambling interests
it will takeo stubborn fight and the ex
penditure of some money to breakup
the business by sending the leaders to
the penitentiary,
"During the coming week we shall see
whether the people want the present
policy continued or not or prefer to keep
house next year with less vermin around
the premises. There may be need of
considerable help at this house cleaning
and the wishes of every citizen can be
fairly measured by the zeal with which
he takes hold of the broom."
At the time of writing the above edi
torial the Journal did not suppose the
present mayor would be re-nominated.
To be placed in nomination by the re
publican party is sufficient to secure the
support of the Journal. It atones for
all crimes of whatever character. A
"house cleaning was needed a year ago.
The same old bouse with a year's added
filth needs no cleaning now. Consist
ency is a jewel the Journal never saw.
WHY THE PARTY WILL LIVE.
Because it is builded around four di
vine truths recognized by no othor party
iu American politics:
1. That those things which are in
their nature public utilities should be
owned and operated by the government
national, state or municipal in the
interest of all the people.
2. That money is a function of gov
ernment and should be issued by govern
ment alone; that it is a creation of law
and that it gains its virtue from the
legal tender which is given it by law and
not by any inherent value which the
substance on which it is stamped may
possess.
3. That the land was intended for all
people; that therefore vast holdings of
laud for speculative purposes should be
prohibited; that the land should be held
for the homes aud tillage.
4. That the people in their sovereign
capacity have aright to originate or
veto the laws under which they are to
live.
These ore four principles that no other
party in the history of the republic has
hnd the courage to enunciate.
They are today advocated by no other
party.
They are the very fundamental ideas,
the four corner-stones of the eople's
party.
1'opulumi will live because these truths
are et -nml and will vitatiie it. They are
up now and they will never down uu
til thvy are recounted In law.
Ths republican arty Is Wedded to ths
Hftiiv of mammon. It ha rtnid
that it cannot rtorm. In four years
the Hipl will turn from it in itiditfun
tioa and dUgul. Its Uam of power
cannot outlive the century.
Ths dni(H'rall party wi-ll, ws hardly
know wbers the domocratie party do
staud, At bt It ha only taken a step
or two iu ths dirortioa ol r!irm and m
nvally a lartt portion ol It mwiii lo iu
duals a dir to rtra th, lib
Im-r, lor long yr, ths orviiv
party la Anif lean dilh. May It not
rlura to Its old bUl of thought? It
k a very old rtv aad la lis long his
torj hss ltrs4 maay prtMMpl
soUbty tanft rlrw. II II should
Uld th ground ttkusi4 tboutd prove
true to the principles it professes, it will
take only a step in the right direction
and the four sublime truths enunciated
by populism are beyond it.
The peoples party must live. It will
live because it is right. It will live to
teach the tenth. It bas a distinct mis
sion to perform. No other party can
sap its strength becauz? no other party
has the courage to espouse its principles.
It will live and it will grow in spite of
the machinations of any or all other
parties.
It will live because the great truths it
bas espoused are the questions of the
future. They are rapidly coming to the
front and will be the recognized issues at
the beginning of the new century.
It will live because it is a house builded
upon a rock the rock of industrial
liberty,
It will live because it is animated by a
divine ideal the brotherhood of man.
J. A. E.
SCISSORS DEf ARTMtfNT.
The Kicker almost always deserts at
the critical moment. Reform Press
(Pueblo, Colo.)
Secretary Edgerton of the populist na
tional committee refused to take part
in the organization of a new reform
press association at Kansas City last
month. He served notice on those pres
ent at the meeting that he could not en
dorse the plan to organize a separate
association. His course was wise, and
shows that our national committee
have the best interests of the populist
party at heart and will not throw a
straw in the way of perfect harmony,
although they have been severely cen
tured by the reform press for doini? their
duty as they saw it. American X Rays,
(Ogden, Utah.)
Tom Watson, through his paper, de
nies that be congratulated Skinner over
his success in securing the election of
Gold bug Republican Pritchard, "after
the deed was done," but he acknowl
edges that he encouraged the effort be
fore hand. This slip of the foot from
the rock of everlasting rectitude may
have been due to his desire to spite Sen
ator Butler, but even that is a slim ex
cuse for so rank a sacrifice of principle.
Iowa Tribune.
We have to note with regret that in a
recent issue of this paper injustice was
done to Hon. George Turner, populist,
the newly elected senator of the United
States from the state of Washington.
The injustice consisted in a paragraph
based upon a statement in the organ of
the mouey power here, that Senator
Turner was not in harmony with the
principles of the peoples party platform,
and that the professed certain political
views more for the sake of obtaining
populist votes than for any other pur
pose, A communication from a corre
spondent, together with an investiga
tion of our own, shows that Senator
Turner is a sincere man, a convinced
populist, and to-all appearances worthy
of the high honor conferred upon him by
the people of his state. Twentieth Cel
tury. Within the past five years Nebraska
has suffered more from embezzlers, de
faulters and public thieves than from
all other causes combined. Crop failures
and financial depression may have set
the state back, but they have not in
jured its reputation or lowered public
morals one half as much as the unpun
ished thievery ofpublicofficials. Omaha
Bee.
The populists and free silver republi
cans and Bryan democrats may, and in
fact do differ about many things, but on
one thing they all agree. They are rad
ically and unalterably opposed to the
gold standard. So long as there is a
party in power or liable to come into
power which believes in the gold stand
ard, just so long will these forces man
age to get together at the polls. Popu
lists do not consider free silver a pana
cea for all of the ilia of the country, far
from it, but tbey know there is no sal-
A Bid for Extravagance.
Instead of saying one word upon the
necessity of economy in his message to
congress, President McKinley encouraged
the extravagance that has produced
the deficiency which is his excuse for
the extra session.
He declared at tho start that "we are
presenting the remarkable spectacle of
increasing our public debt by borrowing
money to meet the ordinary outlays
incident upon even an economical and
prudent administration of the govern
ment." Is a succession of the billion
dollar congresses and an increase in the
national expenditures of $100,000,000
a year in ten years an evidence of "au
economical and prudent administration
of government?"
"Ample revenues" said the president
in closing, "must be supplied not only
for the ordinary expenses of the govern
ment but for prompt payment of liberal
pensions."
The cost of pensions has increased
$05,000,000 in ten years. This is the
full amount of the deficiency for the cur
rent year. In other words, if cougress,
twenty -one years after the close of the
war, had put a reasonable limit upon
pensions as General Grant and Presi
dent Gartleld both declared it should do
the present tariff bill, even after the
income tax had been uullitled would have
yielded revenue enough.
Our pension list el $140,000,000 now
exceed th total of the combined mili
tary pension Imi of Eroite, It has
more than doubled sine iHHtl. It costs
more than some ol th grentet standing
ariiiic in Luro.
Wh i her any neceiwity outeide of Ihe
uld-aoldirr demagogy, for th president
to lug in a rvlwreuc to "the prompt pny.
Mu ni of literal -iiiiiii" iu the bice id a
VM IMlitf deficit Iu Hi revenue? New
York ttorld.
41 ACT T ! 1WH COMHM!!.
Th prliu'ip'U art tcl on which th
Pumlcy bill irmkt heavy iacro
mutton are wool and vouWn, sugar,
tin, entuiu anditwrt'tiUM't"iiiical,
ruilwy and gla war, pint and
tobacco.
Th t"tal lucre In all lh whedMh
I mtiiiMit.nl hi Mr. I"nsf t l I"4,h,.
ouo yar on th bi id lis Impurta
tiun for yar, ulfid a to lull
with it att Incident on roiuunip
tioa.
I bus hav an Uicrs id $ J3,(m;.
ImhI om wool and woolens, lW under
system l t'ine dull Imposed rgrd-
leo of value, and operating to take at
least two dollars from the consumer for
every dollar that goes into the treasury
as revenue .
With the $25,000,000 increase on
wool and woolen clothing . and with
$20 000 000 increase on sugar, another
prime necessity of life, we have increases
of only a single million on intoxicants
and of only two millions on tobacco.
Perhaps tobacco and whiskey are
taxed enough already-as wool and
clothing certainly are. But these figures
show bow thoroughly the Dingley com
mittee has disregarded every principle of
sound economy in its anxiety to please
campaign contributors and to satisfy
the clamor of selfishness.
If the members of the committee would
call the bill "An act to impose penalties
on consumers aud to cut down our ex
port trade, "they would come much
nearer defining it than they do in their
present title. New York World.
If in Mr. Malby's opinion it is iniqui
tous to interfere with gas dividends of
30 per cent, how large a campaign con
tribution would be required to make him
think it blasphemous to, denounce safe
blowing? New York World.
The Southern Mercury is a power for ;
populism in the south, but; they can do
no good; and may do lots of harm by
calling the populists of Nebraska pie
hunters, and by declaring that there
were no populists at St. Louis at the
recent press meeting held there. Can
they claim for one instant that old J. V.
Wolfe is not a populist? Would fhey
think of condemning J. R. Sovereign as
a pie-hunter? Lesser lights were there,
who are as true populists as the editor
of the Mercury, and this statement casts
no reflection upon the latter, either.
Warwick Saunders is as true as steel. and
no one can cast a reflection on the true
worth of our national secretary, Edger
ton. Of course he makes mistakes who
don't? But mistakes of Edgerton's are
not intentional. The mistakes that he
bas maue are small when compared with
the eternal, everlasting bickering be
tween some of our leading writers. Ed
gerton has shown bis true worth and
good judgment in refusing to help or
ganize a rival reform press association;,
we predict tnat unker bis counsel the
"St. Louis" editors will all be under the
wing of the national reform press asso
ciation before the end of this year.
American XRays, Ogden, Utah.
vation for the country while the gold
standard continues. They know it is an
insurmountable barrier to prosperity,
and that no remedy can be successfully
applied which does not involve the over
throw of the gold standard. Cedar
Rapids Outlook.
We can find no words to express our
regret that the reform press association
has become iuvblved in a wrangle. The
cause suffers by these discords, and the
enemies of progress rejoice. The one
thing that the reformer should do is to
avoid pleasing his enemies. That is to
say, be should not help them defeat his
own cause. The Reform Press associa
tion, part of which met in Memphis, and
part in Kansas City showed a spirit of
hostility which must cause the heart of
every sincere reformer to bleed. It is alt
a mistake. Fight for your principles.
Political parties will crystallize with or
without your consent. We can notes
cape our destiny, A greater power than
man shapes and delivers the issues of
the ages. We can facilitate the move
ments of great revolutions. We may
temporarily retard them, but to keep
them permanently back, we are utterly
powerless. The law of evolution con
quers all. He is the true reformer, who,
forgetful of self, seeks to unerringly in
terpret the law of the universe as ap
plied to biman society, and quickly
obeys its mandates. Progressive Age.
The peoples party will live and grow.
It will be neither merged nor swallowed
by any other party. Neither will it be
ruled nor ruined by impracticable the
orists. Creston, (Iowa) Morning Amer
ican. HAWAIIAN SUGAR.
The Sugar Trust bas Difficulties with
the Islanders.
An interesting contest is going on in
cougress over the question of abrogat
ing the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty..
Undei the provisions of that treaty be
tween $7,000,000 and$8000,000 worth of
sugar is imported into the United States
free of duty. Nearly the whole of this is
purchased by the Sugar Trust on a con
tract made with the planters.
This contract will terminate before the
next crop is harvested, and the sugar
Trust is trying to force a renewal at the
same figures. The Hawaiian planters
think that tbey ought to get a part of
the benefits derived by the trusts through
its importation of this sugar. Under
the proposed schedule of the Dingley bill,
this benefit will amount to oue and one
ball ceuts per pound, this being the
amount that the trut will have to pay
on imports of suar from other coun
tries. The Hawaiian planters have
therefore refused to renew their contract
with the trust uuless it is made at a fig
nre which will give them a part of the
cent and a halt which the trust will save
by buying Hawaiian sugar. The Uland
planters are now talking of crating an
independent refinery at some point on
the California const, and thus obtain all
of the udvantagesol the tariff schedule
for themselves.
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