The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1897-02-25
WATCH THE TRUST
Some Good Advice On
the Subject.
Needs Of the Community Anent
Annexation-Spr
Methods.

MR.. EDITOR:-NOW that something
like an assault has been made upon
this Republic, these people, the cause
of annexation. and the most vital in
terest of the country, zest and sub
stance are added TO the situation.
1t is facing a foe, a danger, pos
sible disaster, that summons to the de-
fense courage, sharper discernment,
faith, valor and determination.
But let us carefully consider: First,
we shall measure the power, the front,
the personnel, the material and the re-
sources of the other side in this inevi-
table contest
AS President Dole has said, as others
have repeated, and as all know, the
deadly and remorseless enemy of the
chief industry, and the principal sup
port and sustenance of this country is
that gigantic octopus, the American
Sugar Trust. 1t. is the nightmare of
those who would have Hawaii prosper
as it is, the dread and terror of the
common people, and many of those of
higher rank in the United States. 1t is
being pursued by the intelligence, law
loving and the honorable of that coun-
try.
The trust is making a new tack.
Time was when it despised and spurn-
ed and spat upon the promoters of pro-
duction of beet sugar from American
soil. 1t could then, by political influ
ence, disgraceful to a free country, as
sure itself the raw article cheaper from
other shores.
Politically the trust has been throt-
tied. 1t died hard and is trying to be
phoenix. The doom was not sealed till
President Havermeyer was forced to
confess to Senate committee that the
monster monopoly had contributed
funds to both or all political parties
had boldly bribed right and left. Now
tie trust, for purposes that are clear,
must needs form an alliance with the
beet sugar interest. That brings not
insignificant factor into the camp. 1t
puts the tiller of the soil in front of
and ahead of the trust dragon.
What does the beet culture and re-
There were five establishments in the
United States six years ago. Nebraska
had two, Utah had one and California
had two. There are today the same.
Claus Spreckels is going in for beets
to punish his two sons who bested him
in a contest for ownership of the larg-
est plantation in Hawaii. In the days
Of monarchy he put fear into the heart
Of the King. but the citizen of Hawaii
nei bends the knee to no man.
California became the constituency
Of Colonel Spreckels il. these premises.
And why? That commonwealth is in
desperate straits. Her export trade is
slipping away. Her mines are filled |
with stagnant water There is no sale |
'or the fruits of her orchards. The
farmers are poverty stricken and |
lum bfounded.
All, California wants sugar beet |
boom like unto a land boom or an or
,hard boom or even a fiesta boom or |
wine or climate furore. A spark of |
nope looms ahead, shining out to the
ioble, but wounded state that body and |
soul, man, woman and child is the
helpless makeshift instrument and
lave of the Southern Pacific Railway.
There you are as to our old friend,
California, rather to be pitied than CEN
ured.
Utah, as a State, is better organized
md equipped and located than Cali
ornia. The former is proud and solid
mpire within herself-Mormons or no
IormonS. In Utah there is presented |
he most advanced and successful eX-
mple of a harmonious, we'll managed
nd conservative community that can
,e found. The leaders have decided,
nd not without much deep thought,
hat the interest of church and state
identicaD are with the trust. And the
formons are singularly steadfast and
rue to their own interests.
Every well-informed man is ac-
uainted with the marked peculiarities
II characteristics of Utah A peep at
he open record will disclose the gen
ine unfairness, if not infamy, of this
ew partnership of the tottering Sugar
rust
In the TTans-Missippi Congress at
)gden, Utah, May, 1898, an exhaustive
aper upon "Sugar-Beet Culture" was
cad by Col A c. Fisk of Denver He
S an economist of reputation, and a
cry able and broad-minded man, as
yell as one of wealth. Colonel Fisk
by reliable data, that
90 sugar-beet refineries could be es-
ablished and would supply the United
tates with the article required. John
,. Irish and few other men of his .
TX were in that Congress-22 States
nd Territories represented-and they
igeon-holed Colonel Fisk's paper. !
Tow it will be resurrected-f the
enefit of the trust
There cannot be, in the mind of a
easonable man in Hawaii, an absence
f alarm over the representations that
ave been made to the committee at