Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Hawaii and the Sugar Bounty. [ARTICLE]

Hawaii and the Sugar Bounty.

Hawaii produces about 265,000,000 poundg of sugar annually. It has been suggested, with some apprehension, that if we extend a protectorate over the islands, or in any fashion attach them to our territorial possessions, we shall have to pay to the producers of this sugar the same bounty which we are now paying to sugar-growers here. At that rate the bounty on Hawaii’s sugar would amount to more than $5,900,000 nually.But there is no occasion for apprehension on that score. Whatever we may do with respect to Hawaii, we arc not going to annex a new sugarbounty charge upon the Treasury. On the 4th of March the Government of the United" States will pass under control of a party which utterly repudiates the policy of taxing tbe people for money with which to pay men for engaging in unprofitable business. The Democratic party is not going to extend the sugar bounty. It is going to abolish it.—New York World. The only tin-plate mill In opera tioa now is the McKinley plant, tba* grinds the tax out of the Americas consumer.