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Swapping Free Hides For Dutiable Sugar

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
May
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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"The senatë tarilï bilí as a wbole," says ex Congressmau John De Witt Warner, "is a notice to eastern manufacturer8 of what they niay hereafter expect. Hitherto they have considered protection as a sort of providential arrangement by whicfa they were enabled to feed on the rest of the country. Now, like Polonius ia 'Hamlet,' they are invited by 'acertain convocation of politie worms' to a supper'not where they eat, but where they are enten. ' The manufacturera of New Eugland, New York and Pennsylvania are to take their turn at being tnulcted for the benefit of others who now control legislation. This applies especially to the hide schednle. " "Cannot the New Bnglaud senators secure favorable changes iu that schedule?" "I think not. The bill as it stands is satisfactory to the Sugar trust and probnbly cannot be kept so except by the votes controlled by the Cattle trust of the west. Were the New England senators willing to risk offending the Sugar trust, they could doubtless defeat the duty on hides, but the fact is that Boston and Providence, in proportion to their size, are far more thoroughly saturated with Sugar trust influences than is any other part of the country, and, however much Senators Aldrich, Wetmore, Hoar and Loage may bewail the fate of their boot and shoe manufacturers, there is no prospect whatever that they will sacrifica the Sugar trust interests to help tb": Senator Hoar - That (free) hide has been in the family 25 years, and it almost breaks my heart to part with it. Senator Allison - You needn't snivel. Keep your old hide if you want to, but yon don't get any sngar (profits). See?

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