Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1892 — The Sugar Bounty Again. [ARTICLE]

The Sugar Bounty Again.

This [£. e., free sugar] means bo relief whatever from the Protective burdens of the tariff, for we have paid in the bounty as much as we would*have paid for Protection if the duty on sugar had not been abolished, while the Treasury has lost 156,000,000 of revenue, or more. —The Chicago Herald. The sugar-bounty liar seems determined to rival the achievements of the now almost defunct tin-plate liar.. Does not the Herald know that the total amount expended by the government for sugar bounties during the last fiscal year waß only $7,330,044, and that of this sufn $6,8.70,50(5, or more than six-sevenths, went to the sugar planters of Louisiana? Ts it does net then the Southern sugar/ “barons” should send up a Representative into the wilds of Chicago tor the purpose of “educating” - Illinois Tariff “ reformers” on the sugar question. It makes a good deal of difference to the Bourbon Free-trader of the South whether Free-Trade touches his own products or not, a point on which the distinguished author of the Mills bill can give all desired Information.—American Economist

A Hammond Special says that Thomas Hammond, the democratic nominee for congress, is virtually a citizen of Michigan, having the most of his interests there, but as manager of an English syndicate, he has taken up his at Hammond. With his property in Michigan, his residence a few feet from the Illinois line and his occupation managing the business of an English syndicate, he will not be a fit representative of Indiana in the halls of Congress. His English connections however made him a fit candidate for the democracy. The Vidette would suppose the English trait unpleasant to the Irish democrats. , The Hammond Tribune says he is a cleve r busir.f gx ytieirpr tut t 8 no business fitness suitable for congress. Jolmston is admitted to be amply qualified.—Valparaiso Yidette. **' / i . ';*L "