The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-12-21
INSIDE HISTORY
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II CONTROLS THE EARTH
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With the possible exception 81 IT'D ils
Illustrated pamphlet giving export ali.
counts on protected manufactures. ani
published some yeaEa aince, the pamphlet
ON the Sugar Distribution combiaa bv
Hon. Jeln Ioe witt Warner, iuat issued
by che New York Reform clah d perhaps
The most interesting Of its wiao IsHasa
series
Treating as il docs 81 subject Al %
which vague lntimations have for years
been made 81 every hand e presenta th6
aanmarlzed reanltA of an Investigation
neaehing every cernar 0f tho United
States and based upon what Il evidently
Al enormous collection of original dpcu-
Notwithstanding accounts, correspond
enees ninntes mud proceedings efiecal
organizations which iay open to view
tbs workings qf the sHgar trust from its
yery inception, along The linea III which
y most directly affects tho American
people
Tho secret history Il given Of com
plete systoA ef Wholesale aroosrs Aaso-
Citations, each Subsidiary 10 tho sugar
fFnst and paid by All 4 generoas oommiH
sion On condition pftheir keepinm the
price Of sugars up % the point dictatod
BY Tho trusti while tho eopias of eorre-
spondenee and accounts furnished leage
nathing to b desired III fhe way 81 sp-
curate detail
rheaHther's conclusion Is nerhaps
best slsiahlaFg y The data.ls giyah
with lia snreeEela III eaatgol he
Elawaii, and Tie fiayemegers extending
theiF plantations II Cuba, The trust
ilictates % every branch Of sugar pro-
ltnction and dlstrihntion III the United
States, taking under its wing every one
panceFped except those who consume
slgar, From its office, at IN Wall
Street, cable messages Az daily to its
agents II Cuba, fixing tho price of raw
sugars there TO San Francisco annonncs
Ing Cuban parity, at which arriving
Hawaiian sugars are 70 be valued to
Louisiana, telling lief planters wlat--in
view qf Guhan and Hawaiian prices4
the trust eondcscends to offer for Ameri-
can sngar and 70 its representatives an
ever the world, giving tho limit based
on Cnban parity at which they can
pick UP Austrian, IaHan, Philippine,
Brazilian and other sugars when these
are temporarily depressed ia price. In
an adjoining room the quotations at or
above which the subseryiont dealara
throughout the country are permitted b
sell sugars, are daily settled, and through
the feur great sugar brokers who stand
nearest tho throne these are pasaed to
the forty others who await the sugar
trusts nod at New York aud tele raph
70 the waiting hundreds III other cities
Of the land. These Ia turn 90 promptly
uotliy their patrous, the thousands of
Wholesale grocers of the country, that
before their doors are opened all danger
of any purchaser getting bis sugar bolow
tTust prices Is over for tho day, by diE-
count from his bill or periodical remit
tanee, as tile case may be, each faithful
Wholesaler Is promptly aud liberally
paid for bis loyalty; and whenever, ii
The ctisis % legislation, he hears the
hugle calI ef the trust lie Instantly
steps into line, ready 60 lombard his
congressman with kilograms oF fght him
with ballots AZ short range until the
sngar trust cause y triumphant
Such II the grandest trade oaganiya
tlon the World has eyer seen.
Ile augaE tgust dictates tie tribute
that shall be rendered il iii the Ameri-
can people,
Fhs wholesale groeers ARE rewarded hg
whatever of ialgess the trust thinks
necessary ~ insure theiF loyalty
And ths pnbllcl fIhe public ha
damned ana ltis.a