The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-07-07
HAvEMEYER AND TRUSTS.
The sugar Magnate Takes n shy ~
Protection = Every Trust
Save His own.

III. u. HayemcyerS arralgnment oil
the trusts and his condemnation OF dis
eliminating tariff laws will meet with
cordial approval by the masses who
have been plundered by both these
agencies and robbed in the name OF
"enterprise" and law. But his view is
too circumscribed when he says:
II repeat that all this agitation against
trusts h merely the business machinery
employed % take from the public what
the government IN rs tarin laws says IL
y proper and suitable they should have.
IL is The government. through its tariff
laws which plumbers tho people. and tie
trusts. etc, are merely the machinery for
doing IT,"
some trusts, like the Stanard Oil and
railroad combines, exist independents
" OF tariff laws. and their destruction
calls for remedial legislation along
other lines than the tariff. The inter
state commerce laws. If enforced, would
afford partial but quite substantial re-
lief. But the republican party is bound
in chains of adamant 10 the wheels OF
plutocracy, and therefore the attorney
general of the United States has been
instructed by his supcriors not TO act
to the financial loss of those corruptive,
destructive aggregations Of capital
which dominated and caused the cleo
tion of his political master.
Very sclfshly. but illogically, Mr..
Havemeyer pleads for an increased tar
if duty on refined sugar. lie says:
THE rate OF protection on sugar is an
eighth OF cent per pound, which 10
yalorem. The least II should
have is eight per cent. The sugar
refining industry OF this country. no mat
ter what form its organization, is entitled
to adequate protection. II any industry is.
There are at least 10000 people depend
ent on It,"
Yes, and there are over 100000 peo-
pie compelled by government robbery
to swell the enormous profits of the
sugar trust. One-eighth of a cent per
pound seems to be a trifling matter, but
when it is considered that the output of
the sugar trust is approximately TO-
100000 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.
1t is surprisingly refreshing 10 be
informed that the trusts are under
no obligation TO the states which ere
ated them. but, on the contrary, the
states are the bcneficiaries Of the con-
descending trusts"
After informing an anxious world
that trusts are the logical results of
discriminativc laws. Mr.. Hayemeyer
gravely saws:
"In these days there are two forms. and two
only, OF monopoly one. that which results
from a patent and copyrights. IL is uni
versaly recognized that this Is in the in
terest not against the interest or the pub
lie. The other. that which comes from
unfair tariff discrimination. Tariff
for the purpose OF equalizing against for
eign bounties does not need to DO
justified"
Oh. no, Tariff that favors the sugar
trust is beneticent. but all other kinds
are robbery, according TO Mr.. Have
meyer.
Is il not about time that the people
were done with expert testimony by
those who confess they are plunderers
and robbers? ii. O. Havemeycr stands
before the world to-day self-convicted
Of conducting a legalized robbng and
piundering machine-a trust. His
parting advice is for the farmers TO or
ganize trust for their own protection.
With his assertions that there are
trusts and there are not trusts. Mr..
Havemcyer has shown how trusts blind
those who conduct them and sweep
them and theirs away. Let the people
come by their own.--CEicago Demo
crat.