The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-17

The o b contained, in it's issue of
Thursday. two news items that dovetsilei
into each other nicely, making a
happy coincidence of text and comment
We refer to the testimony of Havemeyer
the sugar trust magnate, before the in
dustrial commission, and the excuses
made by a representative of the lumber
ring through the o b to the public
for the advance Of 80 cents a thousand on
the lower grades of pine ordered to be
made at the gathering of the barons held
In this city the preceding day. This Mis-
sissippi Valley Lumbermen's association
has all the advantages of trust without
Its disadvantages. 1t is an association
formed for mutual advantage and held to-
gether by the coherent power of law
given opportunity to plumber 1t meets.
investigates the capacity of the lumber
using public to stand a rise and, esti-
mating what the traffic will bear. orders
the advance. Closely allied, at once its
child and master, is the Retail Lumber
mems association, that keeps watch on
the manufacturers and sees that no indi-
Vidual purchaser is allowed to escape the
tariff net
Mr.. Havemeyer who appears to be dis
satisfied with what the Dinglev trust
breeder gave his trust, bluntly admits the
paternity. or, as he puts it, the maternity
OF trusts. "The mother of all trusts is
the customs tariff said he IT .eis tho
true communism of pelf," he declares
borrowing Mr.. Cleve,and's descriptive
term The trust is nothing more than
the machinery devised by the bene-
hciaries of this law to extract from the
consumers the full measure of the grant
10 loot- "A protective tariff" he pro-
ceeds' in effect. says to the people.
Here Is the law we enacted for your rob
berry Do not complain of it, but do vour
utmost to attack and injure the machin-
cry engaged in extracting from Won what
we legislate shall be taken from Won -,
Neither the truth nor the force of this ia
broken by Mr.. Havemeyer's insistence
that sugar is not a trust nor a tariff
beneficiary. however strong the popular
belief to the contrary.
In ut conjunction comes this meeting of
the combined lumbermen of the Mis-
slsslppi valley and orders the nrice
again advanced. Representative Tawnav
was there, of course. He made the fight
for them to get the mower +o
3 take y thousand feet from the nocxats
OF lumber users, a power promptly used
as soon as given, and he was there to
tell them what ne and they must do TO
= prevent the joint high commission from,
letting in Canadian lumber again under
reduced or wiped out tariff. Tawnev
has three pets. eggs. chicory' and lumber
and the greatest of these is lumber. One
OF these bandits perhaps bandftes would
be a kinder if no truer term-tslls the
CD that the rise is made because
the market is short of lumber, but an
other tells contemporary that If the
tariff is reduced Canada will food the
market with the very same low grade
lumber upon which this advance in nrioa
Is ordered. They all admit that their
prices could not be maintained were there
no protective tariff to shut out competi-
tors and thus come to the support of TIE
sugar kings exposition of the nature. OBJ
Ject and effect of tariff for deficits"
as well as protection.
Meanwhile Democrats around banonat
boards are running out their tongues at
the trusts and saving nothing aho,+
against tneir prolific old mother-McKin-
leyism; running away from the only is
sue they won the presidency on since &c.
and trying to make one on which their
opponents will be unanimous with them
There are plumbers that are crimes and
this is one of them, because it is an ac.
cessory to the crime of robbery under
form of law.