Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-06-11

| spending about two months here in that
| work, the details of their operation being
thoroughly exposed at the time by The
| Star.
| Claus Spreckels also purchased a news
paper, the San Francisco Call, for the pur-
| pose of fighting annexation and is now
running it at an estimated loss of about
100000 per annum. The Calls speciality is
| hostility to Hawaiian annexation. For
months there has scarcely been an issue
without an article upon the subject, the
usual dose being from one to thirteen col
umns daily.
Since the 1st of December last the San
Francisco Call has been mailed free to each
member of Congress. Mr.. Spreckels is evil
IDENTIFY one Of those generous creatures who
loves his fellow men and is happiest when
giving away something for nothing.
Last summer Henry OXnard collaborated
with Claus Spreckels at San Francisco. and
jointly planned the anti-annexation COM
paign in California, Oxnard Immediately
thereafter going to Sacramento and max
ing transparent effort to work up senti-
ment against annexation by publicly offer
ing to contract with beet farmers to pay
them 90 cents a ton more for their beets
for the coming season If annexation were
defeated.
Later he reversed the operation In Ne
braska, where he is also interested in the
sugar business, by trying to compel the
farmers to accept 30 cents a ton less for
their beets if annexation were accomplish
ed. At the same time he caused to be cir
culated petitions to Congress against an
neXation.
Meanwhile his partner. Spreckels. was
sending agents up and down the coast in
an effort to secure signatures to petitions
and resolutions by commercial and politi-
cal organizations against annexation.
To summarize who Oxnard is:
He and his brother Robert were among
ths original aggregation known as the sugar
trust, becoming the partners Of Havemeyer
and Searles.
They continued in partnership with
Havemeyer and searles in the beet busi-
ness in California.
Robert became and continued the man
ager of the trusts business in California
and successfully forced Claus spreckeis'
sugar refinery into the trust and acquired
for his partners and employers, Havemey-
er and Searles partnership in Spreckels'
beet sugar business as well.
The Wrigsltng Eels Of the Sugar
Trust.
4ueTo you nave IT. daVemeyer, SearleS,
spreckels, Oxnard; Spreckels, Oxnard,
Havemeyer. Searles; Oxnard, Havemeyer,
Spreckels, Searles. all mixed up like a
bucket of eels so that no one can tell where
one begins and the other leaves off. Henry
Oxnard and Claus Spreckels are playing
the wicked partners" in this drama and
would have believe that they are op-
posing their good partners" Havemeyer
and Searles.
Neither Havemeyer nor Searles is person.
ally in evidence in Washington, but al
though Mr.. Searles Is the truly good
member Of this aggregation of talent, there
is direct and positive evidence that the re-
cording angel is obliged to inscribe a sui
phurous stain opposite Mr.. searles' name
whenever the Hawaiian annexation ques-
tfon is mentioned in his presence, while Mr.
Havemeyer. who makes no pretensions to
piety. exhausts his vocabulary and INDUCES
up to the limit under like conditions
Further information as to who Oxnard Is
and concerning his anti-annexation per-
formances in California, Nebraska, Chfca-
go. New York and Washington is available
If needed.