Arizona republican., 1899-07-04
HAvEMEY FER ON TRUSTS.

At a mee.i-S of the industrial com
 mission in Washington the other day the chief witness was Henry o. Have meyer, enc of the pillars of the sugar trust. Mr. Havemeyer's testimony was rendered n15-.ble by the fact that he mads this statement. which he ampli-
 fled and expounded lt length:
 The mother of all trusts is the GUS toms ta1if bill. Ths existing bill and the preceding one have been the occa- sion of the formation Of all tte large trusts, with very few exceptions. inas- much as they provide for an inor3i- nate protection to all the 1nteresss of the country sugar refining excepted.
 'Tb2;t IS to say. in the opinion of NJ. Havaneyer, trusts are tho direct result ci a protective tariff and they do not exist except where the policy Of pro- tection is in vogue. As widely in formed business man, the sugar trug. witness knows ttat such IS not the ca6e; tt1at there $ dir-ct proof of the faIsity of his state rant, and that only by IT. 5icuIous dlstcrtion of logical conc.u- siCns can he get any ao-oalled proof to bear him out No country in Chriztert5om comes nearer to absolute free trade than England The bulk of her irecne 7s 1'aae,yed from 9 revenue tariff, and prc5ect.on is given to no in G,E55Ty, yet Tllats are numerous there aEi have been fer yc3-s prior to the trr<t craze in ttis country. But let us say at home for argGnreni5s. No tariff prGtil-',s the railroads of America, but the grset trunk lines have been for yli-I@s in pooling arIangemeEt that regulates passenger and freigt,s rates, and they will continue to manage the t9riff broiness of the continent for thcsr own welfare regardless of the of any party CT the opera tion of any tariff. There is no tariff cn fpa.qoIeum yet the Standard Oil is the biggest trust in the world, the most stif.ng to competition and the most reIaint1ess to competi- tt-t- 1iNE 1-fO Cd4 Ill O1 Ni4l t11 ctE+ IS cca1, but the large producers of that commodity have the business so well in hand that the smallest operator cannot send a ton of ccal to tide water 0r to inIlrd city withoT15 paying heavy -rEbuta to the anthracite producers association which anlounts to the elimination of all competition. Ac- cord:ng to NIT. Havane eyer's own tes- -imCny. there is no protective traiff on sugar, the duty being only an eighth of cent per pound, but that fac. did rot prevent Havemsyer and others rom securing comrol of the sugar ctesirccls of q great ration. These l0ar named trusts are the oldest and most powerful in America. If the tar if $ the mother Of trusts how does davIneyer account for the mainten- ance Of the railroad. coal, oil and sugar without assistance from he tariff? In the light of these facts, l -his further statement of the sugar king is as ridiculors as it is false:
 There prcpably is not an industry -haS requires a pr1tectson Of more han 10 Igar cent ad valorom, and f5 is | -o obtain what is provided over such | in the tzliff that leads to he formation of what are commonly spoken Of as trust
 So long as there is q greater differ srce than 10 per, cent blween Ameri- an and continental wages, just So | org Will there be need of a tariff that | will stand between the foreign scale | md cur own. The rest of Havemey- | ITS te~LimoEy WAS tirade against l arc5ecticn, a savage demand for higher | Jaty on sugar. and 3 general reF3mp- ng of riddled democratic arguments or the 'dsetrueton Of tie Amerscan JolBcy that has fostered competition ird at last made America peerless for The history of Amer;ca 5 the best pagument for protection, md protection exi5tsli three-quaxteT5 if a century, with only brief in-er1up- on, withoUt producing a trust