Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-01-05
c,icAR TRUST FOLLY.
The Rash Blur of . Protection-fos'sFeo
Monopoly.

Monopoly.
The threat OF the sugar trus. W
close Its eastern reineries was cnaf-
acteristIc of the methods OF lhs'
monopoly. 1t was made by ME- II.
Uavemeyer, the president OF the trust,
within a few days of the meeting Oh
congress, and Mr. Havemeyer oaseo
the pretended necessity for closing
the re6neries and turning thousands
~ men out OF employment on the
probability OF the passage OF the iree-
sugar bin, which, having gone through
the house of representatives OF tue
last session of congress- Is penang Ia
the senate. At the time when TINS
threat was uttered there was SINAI,
nrobabilitv that the free-sugar oiii
would be passed by the senate iheIe
was then no evidence, so far as the
nublic knew. that the hold of the trust
IN the senators who compeileu tne
.,rr.nder to its demands was weak
cned. But Mr.. H~avelneyer's interview
has evidently greatly discredited the
,rust in Washington. 1t has aroused
a widespread indignation against the
trust. which, coupled with the popu-
lar verdict in the country, and es-
pecially in his own state, mas com,
nelled even the obstinate n cyhicai
serator Smith to denounce the friends
Inv adhering to whom last summer nc
incurred much deserved odium.
The threat was clearly iil-timed. ana
otherw;se indicative that to Mr.. Have
never, as to other men who nave oeeu
cleyerly and astately defiant OF the
nublic sentiment in favor OF morality'
! and whose success in corruption o.
selfish greed has seemed
there has come a time when folly ma
taken possession OF him. So cruel am
unnecessary was his threat that TN
i president felt constrained to mentio
II in his message, and to express
d willingness, in view OF H. tnat .n
e especial protection enjoyed by In
II trust should be repealed.
t. Mr.. Havemeyer apparently thougl
e that he had only to drive his WORKING
If men into the streets to stay the nan
of the advocates OF free sugar But i
r. forgot, or never realized, the almo
er universal hatred which his own al
t. his associates conduct in Wash>ne'e
TX had inspired. He and they were amor
- the most potent factors OF democrat
is defeat. The country believes the eru
d, purchased protection from the Sc
ate. and that German. Brice, Smith al
. some Others were practically its agen'
n II knows from the testimony OF !
two Hayemeyers and Searles that I
IN trust babitually corrupted both POI
ly. ical parties. 1t has reason 10 KIN
that the trust is amply protect'
as and that if it has lost money,
err. failed to make it in the last TN
re. months it is because it was too COZ
&C. dent in its power to postpone the OF
ZEN alton of the act until the ISL OF .
nary. More important than all else
ing the knowledge that the business Oh
the fning sugar is conducted in ms co
our trv more cheaply than anywhere
,gh in the world, and that the trust
hey actually pay some duty on its raw
terial and still compete with the
unit man and English refneries in the y
was kets of the world. 1t knows ]
Henry 0. Havemeyer's WI testim'
ncle p,ven in 1880, that American rem
do not need protection.
of The indignant outcry with W
and Mr.. Havemeyer's threat was gre
The was followed by the return to
this re6neries Of the few working
Idy's who were discharged. This was a
tenn: fession that, instead Of being unit
stress of civil circumstances, the
zion, could not afford to stop proan'
'anoa even for q few days, and for the
on pose of preventing the passage O.
hon. free-sugar bill. ..,
- The result of all this ought to IN
: =. the senate to do something ICY
,non curing one Of the Grossest scanda.
,n,.a ever tainted it. The differentiai a
,aass least should be abolished. II TINS
49, is accomplished the country "
~ grateful for Mr.. Havemeyers Il
Harper's Weekly.