Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — Tariff Reform. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Tariff Reform.

The sugar planters of Louisiana must indeed feel proud of the attitude of their representative in the United States senate. These men were- recently elected to congress with specific instructions to care for the best interests of the state which they represent. Neither Senator Blanchard i nor Senator Callery has done so. | Louisiana can and will only .be thor- ■ oughly protected by the republican ■ party which represents protection. The two southern senators thought otherwise. They made a trade; they bartered away the certain prosperity of their state for a vague and and indefinite nothingness. They have as the matter stands now, deliberately voted to rob every sugar planter in the state of Louisiana of exactly onohalf of the amount of ■ protection which was given to them under the McKinley tariff. But cane sugar is not the only sugar, and on the broad lines of national

progress and prosperity something further must be said regarding protec-tion“txrthe-AmericajLsJigarproducing industry. Those gentlemen of Louisiana, who have-their every interest invested in the sugar business, if not content with the action of Senator Blanchard and of Senator Caffery, should by this time have decided that the voice of the Louisiana sugar planter be heard in plain and vigorous terms. If the Louisiana sugar industry must be subject to democratic barter, let it not be disposed of at half price.

Democratic Sympathy for Labor.

Many great American inventors have earned world-wide fame. Fitch and Fulton for stea,mboats, Whitney for the cotton gin, Evans for milling machinery, Whittemore and Jenks for looms, Hoe, Adams and Gordon for printing - presses, Stuart for sugar refining, Baldwin and Winans for locomotives, Pullman for sleeping cars, Collins and Boot for ax making, Ames for shovels, Woodwortn for wood machinery, Fairbanks and Howe for scales, Howe and Crosby for pin making, Knott and Mott for stoves, Terry, Ives and Jerome for clocks, Wood for plows, Lorillard for tobacco making, i Edwards for leather making, Blanchard for lathes for turning irregular, | forms, Spencer for geometrical lathes, McCormack and Ketchum for reapers, Colt, Spencer, Sharp, Smith and Wesson for firearms, Phillips for matches, Wells for hats, Goodyear for india rubber, Ericsson for naval construction and hot air engines, Howe, Wilson, Singer, Gibbs, Grover and Baker for sewing machines, Morse for the telegraph, Tatham for lead pipe, Whipple for screws, Chickering ahd Steinway for pianos, Burden for horseshoes, Yale for locks, Roebling for wire cables, Corliss for stetfm engines, Disston for saws, Stephenseh ic/T horse cars and Gatling for quick guns* —Baltimore Journal of merce, May 36, 1894. L

Sugar at Half Price.

Results of Protection.