The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-10-09

every hour they can. Pm afraid some OF
them will be driven to beggary this win
ter. And Just think that the price of
sugar is going up, too"
"What has been the advance in the
wholesale price %
C We could buy loaf or granulatcd for
81 cents pound right straight along un-
til little over two months ago, and then
the trust began to gradually put up the
price until it cost us wholesale last week
i cents a pound"
There is the whole story of greed and
cunning and heartless tyranny in nut
she'll
And these trusts, Mr.. Blaine says, are
private affairs that should not be inter
fered with. Tne tariff and the trusts are
sacred, and under them the American
workingman is safe
MR. PETERsON's REMARKABLE STATEMENT
OF course the trusts will make places
for some of the seven hundred elsewhere.
1t generously announces that the foreman
and several of the most expert men will
be put in Havemeyers & Elders rehneres,
but it does not explain that for each man
so placed some poor devil will probably
be discharged. Not more than thirty or
fifty at the outside will be given work.
Superintendent Peterson is said to have
laughed at the highly absurd and ridicu-
lous idea that the sugar trust had any,
thing to do with the discharge of the
men, aud explained the phenomenon in
the following clear and unanswerable
statement:
"The refneries are but branches of the
Havemeyers & Elder works, and it is
usual with us to close down every wear
at this time. We have been preparing to
shut down the works for several weeks.
AS soon as the remaining men have fin
lshed the work OF their several depart
ments we will dispense with their SER
vices. Some of the men will be put to
work i'll the rehneres of IIavemeyers &
Elder. We usually remain shut down
from four to six months"
Oh course, every workingman in Amer
lea must see from this that this has been
done before, which proves, if nothing
else could, that trusts should not be in
terfcred with
GENERAL rRYoE's CONDEMNATION.
General Roger A. Pryor, counsel for the
State in the present suits against the SUI
trusts latest move:
"Tru>ts are undoubtedly criminal com
binations, as has been over and over
again ulge,i by the courts, and as is ex-
preS>ly declared bv the Penal Code of this
State. Being such, and being also in the
last degree detrimental to the public IN
tercSt*, they are amenable to legal ami
madver>lon and challenge the intervention
OF the Legislature, as well a, the courts,
for their suppression.
1t is not surprising that the trust has
closed DeCaStro Il Donncr's sugar rein
cry; this was what the trust was organ
lied tor-namely, to limit production, for
1t Is only by restricting the supply OF any
commodity that its price can be en-
HANGED
II was testified to before the Con.
greS>lonal Committee that AT that time
eight ont of eighteen retneries in the trust
were then clpsed-that is to saw. not
working. And now comes another one,
and if need be there will come another,
until the supply is less than the demand,
when conditions Will enable them to ex.
tort what prices they please"
HE WAS GOVT OF TOWN."
Mr.. Theodore A. IIavemever, known
as President of the Sugar Trust, was dis
timely run to earth at No. III Wall
street yesterday afternoon He was in
back room of the sugar office on the sec
ond floor of that building. a clerk took
a Herald reporters card into the apart
ment In which several gentlemen stated
Mr. llavemeyer could be found, but a
voice strangely like Mr.. Iavemeyer's was
heard to eXclalm, as the pasteboard was
handed to him =
"Tel him Pm out of town."
Mr.. Havemeyer evidently believes with
Mr. Blaine that trusts are largely private
Mr.. Willett, of Willett & Hamlen, re-
ferring to the closing Of DeCastro g. Don
ner's refinery, r. marked in his usual quiet
manner, there is nothing new in it. 1t
Is done every year or almost every year.
But 1t is not usual for the Boston refner-
les to close down."
Willett Il llamlen's sugar circular, is
sued oday, Will contain the following re-
marks upon the state of the market:
"PRIC Es.-The market has been dull
during the week. The absence of buying
demand and the closing Of three re-
tineries for the winter has a depressing
effect, which is, however, mostly offset by
other favorable conditions of the sugar
position. The latest reports about the
beet crop are unfavorable and the fabri-
cants are most disposed to sell as low as
Spectators in contracts.''
STOCK AND PRICES.
According to Mr. Willett tba to+ol