The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-11
THE AESOW COszBITTEE AND rGIE
SUGAR TRUST. 5is as

The Lcxow committee in New York
seems determined TO get at the bottom
or the Sugar Trust, and to that end 1t
has made the life of John Il. Searles,
secretary and treasurer Of the AmerI-
can Sugar Reflneries, for the past few
days scarcely worth living. MI. Seares
has been in attendance on the committee
off and on for the past three or four
days. and the end is not yet Mr.. SearIes
suddenly left town on Thursday last, ar
ter having received subpoena from the
committee, and 1t was said that he had
gone to Canton TO Sc Major MCKINLEY,
and that from Canton he went to Wash
ington, and the presumption was that he
had sought Mckinley and Hanna to in
woke their aid against the committee
that is to say, that he wished them to
get the committee TO let up on him.
Upon his return from New York he APP
pearcd before the committee and here
Is how Chairman LeXow opened up on
him:
DO you care to say anything
about the purpose OF your visit to
"Canton?" Mr.. Seares was asked be-
fore he took the sand.
have nothing to say IIowde
you know that l have been there?"
he replied
Because Major Mckinley, when
he was asked to say something in re-
gard to the visit of John i. Searles,
OF New York, replied. You will have
to ask Mr.. Searles"
Ihat would seem to imply that I
was there, wouldn't it?' remarked
MI Sear!cs. smiling. mo, don't
want to say anything"
lie was there. however. and now the
question arises, what did he say to Mr..
Mckinley, and what did Mr.. Mckinley
say TO him? That's what the committee
is trying TO find out and that is what
the public would like to know.
Mr. Searles is 4 firm believer in the adj
age, Least said, soonest mended," and
the committee Is having almost as hard
time with him as he is having with
the committee, but they will pull him be-
fore they get through with him. At
least, that is what Mr.. Lexow says, and
Mr. Lexow thinks he knows what he is
talking about.
AZ any rate the committee has gath
cred enough from the Havelneyers and
Searles to convince It that the Sugar
Trust, like many other combines Of the
same KIND, is sucking the life blood out
or the country, and the members say
mat II let alone, they will bring every
last one OF them to bar.
Speaking of trusts generally, their
growth in the United States in the last
ten years according to the Pittsburg
Post, has been extraordinary, and they
are now estimated 10 number some thing
like 200 Of national Importance. having
an aggregated capital of two thousand
millions Of dollars. AS an evidence of
the strength of some Of these trusts the
following list give; the capitalization
or few Of the leading one:
sugar trust ...........s 750OO.0 600
Coal trust ...... :. .. So GOA 600
Cotton-seed oil trust % 600. 600
Wall Dape" trus: -. 20 O0O. 600
Lead trust ...... ..... 80 900 OnO
Rubber trust -. ~ 50 600 O00
I4inseed oil trust ~ is 600. 600
Match trust ~. 5000 On0
School furniture trust. 1900, 600
Type trust -. ~. :. 5000 900
blessed beef and pro-
Nl::on trust ~. -. 100. 900
condensed milk trust $4,000 GGl
Strawboard trust w 6.OGO noO
Leather trust -. ~. $4,000, u01
Ihese figures are not ovc!diawn, ana
they represent a great evil
Georgia, by lis recent drastic law.
struck at the roots Of the evil. and other
states are now disposed to apply The
| same remedy. The bill int oducad in the
state Senate OF Pennsylvania by Sena
Tor tlinn Is on the same lines, but the
sincerity ana honesty Of this movement
| is doubted. Time will determine IA.
| fact