The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-30
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To the Editor of the Estate Gazette':-
HIGHLY ESTEEMED BROTHER
Just before the recent election, as well as
al sundry and divers other times, thereto
antecedent, we observed in the columns OF
your ably edited and very newsy paper
certain articles upon the relation OF the
Sugar Trust (so-called) to the Demo-
cratic party. 1t was therein alleged
that the Democratic party as an organ
ization as well as many, if not all, of
its leaders had been purchased by the
said Trust with a large-sized corrup-
ton fund. which, the same, the SAID
party did spend-as alleged-in carrying
the election of 1892.
As we understood your articles, ana
as they were generally understood the
Democratic Congress, being owned BODY
and bones, by the said Trust on account
of the contribution of said ~corruptioA
fund. did-as was alleged-so shape those
nortions of the tariff bill, lately passed,
which deal with sugar, in such a man
ner as to guarantee the said Trust an
offensive and injurious monopoly OF the
American market, enormously to the
profit of the Trust and greatly to the
detriment of the American people, es-
neo;aIlv those OF the poor and laboring
class. We recall also that many epithets
Indicative of shame or disgrace were
applied to the alleged relations, thus
said to exist, and one of the reasons al
legged for turning the Democratic party
out of power and putting the epuoh
+ rams in was that by such change op1y
could justice be secured for the dear
people against said Trust.
Furthermore, on the very day after
election. three weeks ago, We were as
tonished to find in your exceedingly well
informed and nearly always accurate
news columns a certain despatch, pur-
porting to have beeH sent from New
York, wherein it vas alleged that on
account of the Republican victory of the
previous day an enormous boom in the
business of the Sugar Trade had already
set in. Factories which had been idle
for months, in all parts of the country,
were to/be set running at once, and en-
p~loyncent was then to be given to
thousands of men. TIL article or de-
syatch, we remember, included an inter
view with the manager of the Trust
refinery in Williamsburgh, in which all
these promises were very ~emphatically
set forth and which in a general way
expressed extraordinary satisfaction at
the Republican victory. 1t seemed to
us at the time that this state of feeling
was hardly in accord with the previous
utterances of the Gazette or the politi-
cal relations therein described. We in
vited you, highly regarded and much
respected confrere, to enlighten us upon
the subject, to explain away the in
consistencies and reconcile the dis
crepancies. But you were probably too
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peal, for we nave never seen any attempt
TO reply in your columns.
We now direct your attention to the
fact that owing to the unfriendly atti-
tude-alleged-of the Democratic major'
ity in the present Congress to the Trust,
that organization has concluded to shut
4lauol- co1v; ~
some 5000 of the poor dear workingmen
upon the streets, idle and starving.
Without entering into a discussion of
this act. at all, we again appeal to
you for enlightenment on the existing
political relations. Is the Democratic
party allied with the Trust? If so, why
did the Trust rejoice when the Repub-
iicans won so overwhelming a victory?
And if the Trust has bought the Demo-
stance, why does it not stop all opera
lions as a protest against prospective
legislation upon the sugar schedule of
the tariff?
We wish you would explain this whole
subject, Dear Brother, for our and the
general enlightenment. 1t seems to us
there has been some misunderstanding
among the people as to just where the
Trust really stood in politics. Has there
not?
Your admiring but much mystifled
Contemporary.
THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS"
Guarding New Yorll's Morals.