The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-09
A WAR OF TRUSTS.
The Meat TT ust Of the West Fitted
Against the Sugar Trust Of the East.

The Ne a TT uSt of the West Fitted
Against the Sugar Trust Of the East.
Washington. Jan. s-A great war is
about 70 be insueurated- II viii he the
fight of the meat trust against the SUI
gar trust The battle reid vii be the
Senate Of the Emitted states
As is very generally known. the recent
~ enacted tariff bill contained a clause
which imposed an additional tariT Of one
tenth of cent pound upon sugar import
"a from countries which paid an export
duty on that article This additional
tariff was direct slap AZ Germany
which encourages the rahnines of sugar
for export by paying such a duty. and IL
was. 10 say the least. legislation which
helped the refners i'm this country by
making II all the more dificult for the
German product 20 enter.
That was the first chapter Of the war
ana u might have been the end of d. II
Germany had not al once resented this
blow az her interests by prohibiting the
Importation of American meat. Then the
shoe began 20 pinch the feet of a number
Of enferprising citizens OF the west who
had no sympathy with the sugar trust,
who ship hundreds of thousands of tons
of beef and pork abroad, and who did
not propose that their own profits should
be materially reduced in order that the in
comes Of the sugar barons might be in
creased. Now that Austria and Belgium
have taken the same prohibitive stand.
the entire foreign trade of the great meat
packers of the west is threatened, and
a natural result, war is even now inau-
gurated between the sugar and the meat
men.
just before the session of congress
opened, the President. anxious to keep on
ambassador Of that power that the evil
complained of would be corrected as soon
as the national legislature con-
WINGED. Accustomed TO country
where the viii of the ruler
is practically the only law. the ambassa-
dor relied upon the Presidents assurances
ana sent word To- his emperor that in a
very short time the tariff would be abol-
shed. After congress had been i'm session
for several weeks, however. and nothing
had been done in that direction, the Ger
man ambassador awoke to the realiza-
ton that for the President to promise is
one thing and for congress 10 perform is
quite another. and so he informed his gov
eminent that il might as we'll accept the
situation. It was on the strength of these
advices that Germany seems to have en-
tered into "a league with other European
nations in IA gigantic boycOtt-one Of the
most serious complications. by the way, in
which this country has lately had the mis-
fortune to be involved
The German ambassador has learned
something since he has been in this
country He knows how to lobby. When
he found that the republican minority in
the Senate was indsposed to allow the
democrats to correct an unfortunate err
TOR ne began q round of all the teas re-
ceptions and dinners to which he had been
invited At each of these social functions
,, nm NJ al
, in an Indirect way ne would be sure 10 lead
them to a discussion of the situation
/ Without apparently intruding himself or
betraylng his intense interest in the sub
! ieot ne would secure from the senator
! pledge Of cooperation and il is said that
he has nearly a majority of votes now
pledged to him. 1t was some little while
before the senator's. by comparing notes
with each otEer, discovered the ambassa-
doris tactics and now they either avoid
him or talk in a very guarded and non
committal fashion when he breaches the
subject. Nothing quite so neat in the way
of social lobbying has been seen in Wash
ingtOn for some time, and the ambassador
is the envy of his diplomatic colleagues.
The most active agent of the meat trust
lobby in the city is Gen. George r. Davis,
ex-commissioner general of the worlds
fair, who has been hobnobbing with the
senators for week. He VIII be renforc-
ed in a day or two by noted meat men of
the west, either Philip Armour and Nelson
Morris in person or their personal repre-
sentatives. IN the meantime the sugar
trust people, who do not want the duty
chanstd, are not idle. Their managers
run oyer from New Gor, every day or
two and they know that they can rely in
the Senate upon Mr. Quay of Pennsylva-
mia. There was ramor no. long ago
that Nj. Quay had broken with tie sugar
and r-pFld cf4,a hi Ba 10 f,
hurt them in the Senate While this as
sertiOn was undoIhte lily based on fact
a the time. 1t Is no longer true Mr.. Quay
has n debt to pay to the meat people
who are not his consutuents-but he has
every reason not to forget the sugar people
who are not only related to him by reason
Of great retineries in Philadelphia but also
through financial operations in which both
have prodted. COuseque ntlv. he is StfiI
with them and ut the arst4 si,rn
of danger in the Senate he will I'M
TAask his battery. which consists Of
speech long enough to occupy the un-
undivided attention of the Senate from
now until the close of the session. The
threat which the very presence of this
speech contains is enough to deter the
braVest of the democrats who want to
get the appropriation bills through with
out delay, and there is every reason to
believe that no successful effort will he
made TO get the one-tenth duty stricken
off.
What effect this will have upon our re-
lations with Germany. Austria and Bel
GUM remsins toabe seen, but in the mean
time there is no doubt of the intensity of
the struggle of the meat men to get their
product into foreign countries and Of the
effort of the sugar men 10 prevent their
rivals in Germany from flooding the
American market with foreign made
sugar.
DECATUR, TEX, ABLAZE.