The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-12-28
TaI SUGAR DISTRIBUTION COM.
BlNE.

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 wide known series.
Treating as it does of a subject as
TO which vague intimations have for
wears been made on every hand, it
presents the summarized results of an
investigation reaching every corner of
the United States and based upon
what is evidently an enormous collec-
ton of original documen.s-including
accounts, correspondence, minutes
and proceedings Of local organizations
which Law open to view the workings
of the Sugar Trust, from its very in
ception, along the lines in which it
most directly affects the American
people.
The secret history is given of
complete system of wholesale Grocers
Associations. each subsidiary to the
Sugar Trust and paid by it a generous
commission or condition of their keep
ing the price of sugars up to the point
dictated by the Trust while the
copies of correspondence and &C
counts 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
Hawii, and the Havemeyers extend
ing their plantations in Cuba, the
trust dictates to every branch of SUI
gar production and distribution in the
United States, taking under its wing
every one conce rned- excepting
those who consume sugar. From its
office, at III Wall Street, cable mes
sages fly daily to its agents in Cuba,
fixing the price of raw sugars there !;
to San Francisco announcing "Cuban
parity at which arriving Hawaiian
sugars are to be valued to Louisiana,
telling her planters what-in view
of Cuban and Hawaiian prices -
the trust condescends to offer for
American sugar and to its repre-
sentarves all over the world, giving
the limit-based on Cuban parity
at which they can pick up
Austrian, Javan, Philippine, Brazilian
and other sugars, when these are tenn
porarily depressed in price. In an
adjoining room the Quotations at or
above which the subservient dealers
throughout the country are permitted
TO sell sugars, are daily settled, and
through the four great sugar brokers
who stand nearest the throne these
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 turn so promptly notify
their patrons, the thousands Of whole
sale grocers Of the country, that be-
fore their doors are opened all dan
ger of any purchaser getting his sugar
Delow trust prices is over Tor tne
day. BY discount from his bill or
periodical remittance, as the case may
be, each faithful wholesaler is prompt
ly and literally paid for his loyalty
and whenever, in the crisis of legisla-
tion, he hears the bugle call of the
Trust, he instantly steps into line,
ready to lombard his Congressman
with kilograms or fight him with bal
lots at short range until the Sugar
trust cause is triumphant.
Such is the grandest trade organiza-
ton the world has ever seen.
The Sugar Trust dictates the tri-
butte that shall be rendered it by the
American people.
The wholesale grocers are reward
ed by whatever Of largess the Trust
thinks necessary to insure their loyalty,
And the public ?-'The public
be damned and it is by and
through its high protective laws.