The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-08-10
TIE SUGAR TRUST.
The Outrageous Methods OF This Gigantic
Monopoly.

The Outrageous Methods OF This Gigantic
Monopoly.
Abraham Lincoln is credited with
having said that you can fool oil the
people part OF the time and part OF ths
people all of the time, but you can pot
fool all Of the people all Of the time'
There are some Republican papers
which proceed upon the theory that
you can FOOL all of the people all of the
time. Among such papers is the Cieve-
land Leader, which, since the days OF
Ben Wade, hos been locked upon as
one OF the most untruthfil papers pub
lished in Ohio. 1t pays q poor com-
lpliment TO It's readers when 1t thinks
Uhut II Can sltatse any proposition and
that they would bsfleye what II says.
The American people have been driven
by the hard times to do some thinking
for themselves, and they are no longer
accepting tho statements of such
cheap writer's as the truth. The posi-
tion cf the Cleveland Leader Upon the
sugar trust Is fair illustration OF the
course it will pursue In this campaign.
The purpose Of the Cleyeland Leader
Is to urhcld this TRUST and to deceive
those wnB rea1 ITS columns,
On Juiy 2l, after tie house had
oqreed to the conference high tariff
hill NE Leader contained the following
elltoIGal:
"Mr. Dingley, In explaining the pro-
vlsiQn pI the sugar schedule OF the
tariff bill as agfeei 10 by the con
ference committee, declared that 1t wos
far less favorable to the refining trust
than the sugar schedule of the present
law. The new liz, he declared, gave
the trust but 1915 cents a hunored
pounds protection, as against 221a
cents per hundred pounds provided for
by Jhc present law. This protection Is
measured by tho difference between
the duty on raw sugar and the duty On
refined sugar In the new bill that diff
ference IS cne-eighth cent per pound"
Ut is difficult for anybody but an ex-
pert to understand the sugar schedule
OF the tariff bill. SO much depends
upon the color Of the sugar and the
amount Of saccharlne matter 1t con-
tains that no one butt an expert can
distinguish bJtween different schedules
as far as their actual effect is con-
cer4ed The Leader has confidence in
the correctness of the statement of
Mr.. Dingloy, and every Republican
member OF the house Of representa-
tives had the same confidence. No
Democrat in Washington will question
his word.
THE Democrats point to the recent
rise In the price OF sugar trust stocks
as On evidence that che new schedule
is more favorable to the refining mo-
nopoly llh@n the present law, but that
is a mere supposltion. When the Will
son bill was pending in congress the
trust made heavy importations of raw
sugar in anticipation of the increase
of the duty from nothing to 40 per
cent ad valorem. On these heavy i'm
poI'tation5 the trust saved duties |
amounting to s15,OOO,0O0 or there
abouts. That was clear profit for the
trusts, and as soon as the Wilson bill |
had become a law the shares OF the
trust rose IN price rapidly.
Practically the same Thing is hap
pening noW. The trust has made heavy
imports OF raw sugar, and |
It Is estimated that II will get a profit |
Of about Sl1 100000 by saving the extra
duty, whatever 1t may be, on that
sugar. That Is one of the reasons why
the price Of sugar trust shares has
risen. Another reason is Che general
Improvement of the stock market.
'The new bin seems to be as good
one az could haye been drawn under
he circumstances. 1t may not provide
the complete destruction of The
sugar trust and Other trusts But, as
Mr. Dlng!ey declared, trusts can not
)e destroyed by epathets. The way to
)reaS d0wn the trust. lie declared is
% establish beet sugar factory in
very congressional district and mako
That is the way to clip
he wings Of the trust
and that Is what the new tariff law
viii do, tt is asserted"
Let us call the attention OF the read
n TO this editorial. Never were there
iuch hra2"n lies as are Contained In
his alDcle. The Leader Says Mr.. Ding
ey made statement of the truth In
ne first part, and that they dared any
ne to deny that he is an honest man.
nd claims everybody believed him.
Me Leader says 1t believed him. The
lain was that the new tariff bill had
educed the tariff on sugar from 22Ib
ents a hundred pounds to 12A cents
hundred, reduction OF 10 cents a
nndred pounds made by the Repub-
can house9and therefore the Leader
ould have the people believe that this
lgantic monopoly has been circum-
ented by the Republican congress
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