Evening journal., 1894-12-13
The sugar DIstribntIon combine.


With the possible exception Of its
illustrated pamphlet giving export dis
counts on protected manufactures, and
published some years since, the pamphlet
on the Sugar Distribution Combine by
Hon John De Witt Warner, just issued
BY the Reform Club, is perhaps the most
interesting Of its widely known series.
Treating AS Il does OF subject as TO
which vague iutimations have for years
been made on every hand. II presents the
summarized results OF All investigation
reaching evsry corner OF the United
States and based upon what Il
evidently an enormous collection Of
original ocuments-including accounts,
correspondence, minutes and proceedings
Of local organiz zAtions-which lay open to
view the workings CT the Sugar Trust
from Its very inception, along the lines
in which 1t most directly affects the
American people
The secret history Is given OF com
plete system Of wholesale grocers' asso-
Citations, each subsidiary to the Sugar
Trust and paid by It q generous commits
sion on condition Of their keep
ing the price Of sugars up to the point
dictated by the trust; while the copies
OF correspondence and accounts furnished
leave nothing to be desired In the way OF
accurate detail.
The authors conclusion is perhaps the
best summary Of the details given:
With the Spreckels in control OF
Hawaii, and the Havemeyers extending
their plantations In Cuba, the trust die
tates to every branch OF sugar produo-
tion and distribution in the United
States, taking under its wing every one
concerned-except those who consume
sugar From its Office, at No. III Wall
street, cable messages fly daily to its
agents In Cuba, fixing the price Of raw
sugars there; to San Francisco announo
ing Cuban parity, at which arriving
Hawaiian sugars are to be valued to
Louisiana, telling her planters what-in
view ofCuban and Hawaiian prices-the
trust coudescends to offer for American |
sugar and to its representatives all over
tbs world, giving the limlt-based on |
Cuban parity-at which they can pick up |
Austrian, Jsvan, Philippine. Brazilian |
and other sugars, when thess are temper.
arily depressed Ia price.
In an adjoining room the quotations at \
or above which the subservient dealers
throughout the country are psrmitted to /
sell sugars, are daily settled, and
through the four great sugar brokers
who stand nearest the throne tn SO are
passed to the forty others who await the
Sugar Trusts nod at New York and /
telegraphed to the waiting hundreds in
other cities Of the land. These IN turu
so promptly notify their patrons. the
thousands Of wholesale grocers Of the
country, that before their doors are
opened all danger Of any purchaser
getting his sugar below trust prices Is
over for the day.
"by discount from his bill or periodical
remittance. as the case may be. each i
faithful wholesaler is promptly and lib.
orally paid for his loyalty; and whenever,
II the crisis Of legislation, he hears the
ougle call Of the trust, he instantly
steps into line, ready to lombard his
Congressman with kilograms or fight
him with ballots at short range until the
Sugar Trust cause is triumphant.
such Is the grandest trade or organi
zation the world has ever seen. The
Sugar Trust dictates the tribute that
Shall be rendered IL by the American peo-
PIE The wholesale grocers are rewarded
by whatever Of Iargess the trust thinks
necessary to insure their loyalty And |
the pubhci-'she public be damned '-and |
it is