The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-12-28
The Sugar Distribution Combine

With the possible exception of its
illustrated pamphlet giving export dis
counts on protected manufactures, and
published some years since, the PAM
phlet on the Sugar Distribution COM
bine by Hon. John De Witt Warner,
just issued by the Reform Club, is per-
haps the most interesting of its wide
known series.
Treating as it does of a subject as to
which vague limitations have for
years 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 documents-including
account, correspondence, minutes
and proceedings of local organizations
which lay 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 COM
plete system of wholesale grocers' as
sociations, each subsidiary to the SUI
gar trust and paid by. iI generous
commission on condition OF their
keeping the price of sugars up to the
point dictated by the trust; while the
copies or 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 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 concerned except those
who consume sugar. From its office,
at III Wall street, cable messages 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 wnat-in view of Cuban
and Hawaiian prices-the trust conde-
sends to offer for American sugar:
and to It's representatives all over the
world, giving the limit-based on Gu
ban parity-at which they can pick
up Austrian, Javan, Philippine, Bra
lillian and other sugars, when these
are temporarily 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 set
tied, and through the four great sugar
brokers whe 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 no.
tify 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 pc
riodical remittance, as the case may
be, each faithful wholesaler is prompt
~ and literally paid for his loyalty;
and whenever, in the crisis Of legisla-
ton, he hears the bugIe call Of the
Trust, he instantly steps into line.
ready to lombard his congressman
with kilograms or fright him with bal
lots st 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 Amer
can people.
The wholesale grocers are rewarded
by whatever Of largest the Trust
thinks necessary to insure their loyal
And the public The public be-
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