The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-30
HAVEMEYER AND TRUSTS.
The sugar MaHnate Takes . shy ~
Protection - Every Trust
save TITS own.

". q. Havemeyer's arraignment OF
the trusts and his condemnation of dis
eliminating tariff laws will meet with
cordial approval by the masses who
have been plundercd by both these
agencies aud robbed In the name of
enterprise" and Law. But his view IL
too circumscribed when he says;
II repeat tina, all this agitation against
trusts ~ merely the business machinery
employed 60 take from the public "aat
the government In It's tarln laws says u
10 proper and suitable they should have.
IL is tho government through It's tarim
laws. which plumbers the people, and the
trusts, etc. ere merely the machinery for
doing A."
Some trusts. like the Stanard oil arsi
railroad combines, exist independent
ly OF tarin laws. and their destruction
calls for remedial legislation along
other lines than the tarin. The inter
state commerce laws. il enforced. would
afford partial but quite substantial re-
lief. but the republican party is bound
in chains of adumaut To the wheels OF
plutocracy. aud therefore the attorney
general 81 the United States has been
instructed by his supcriors not 10 act
to the financial loss Of those corrupiiye.
destructive aggrcgations OF capital
which dominated aud caused the elec-
tion of his political master.
Very sclhshly. bat logically. Mr..
lIavcmeycr pleads for nm increased tar
itT duty un -cHucd sugar. he says;
The rate - protection on sugar a. an
eighth OF cost per pound. which -
about three and orc-half per cent "a
NalOrcm The least Il should
have is riEht PER cent. The nuFar
refining Industry ~ this country. 20 mat
ter what form IS organization. o. entitled
90 adequate protection. n any irduatf, b..
There are az least io.%o people dep, nd
cnt on a."
Ncs. aud there are over IS. 900 900 pco-
pie compelled by government robbery
To- swell the enormous profits of the
sugar trust. Onc-cighih of cent per
pound seems To bc triiiing matter. but
when II in considered that the output Of
the sugar trust is approximately Ia
o0d.0OO pounds daily, We find that The
people are robbed by this same one
eighth OF cent per pound OF over
$4,000 every day In the YEAR.
II Is surprisingly refreshing 90 bc
Informed that the trusts are undsr
no obligation Ia the siat.s which Gre.
atcd them. but. on the contrary. the
states are the bcpeficiarirs 81 the con-
descending trusts
After informing an anxious world
that trusts are the logical rrsuits OF
dischmiuati,c laws. Mr.. iIa,cneyer
gravcly says:
Tn these days 'herc ar-twa ferns anatw,
only, % monopoly one. thst witch results
from q patent and copyrights it o. unit
vorsAlly recc sniHea that thia - in the IN
tcfUst, 30; agsirsi the Interest 81 the pub
DC Tho other. mat which comes from
unfair tSri5 discrimination, Tarln
for tho purpose q cquaiiEins against for
sign tounties does not necd % 10
en- no. rariG that fa,ors the sugar
trust IL bcncEocni bat ali other Kinds
Hrc robbery. according ia SIR. Ilh,~-
meyer
u ~ not abou, time that the people
were done with expert testimony by
tAos' who confess they are plundrTyrs
and robbers: II. ~. Iia,cmc5er stands
before the world to-day srlf-con,ictcd
~ conducting lcgsiixcd rohhipE and
piundcring machine trust ia.
parting advice IL for the farmers Ia or
gani,c trust for their own protection
Wi'h his assertions that there are
trusts aud there are not trusts. Mr.
Havcmcyer has shown how trusts blind
those who conduct them and sweep
them sud theirs away. Let the peops
come by their own.-Chicago DENT