The evening times., 1900-06-27
SUGAR Trust In CONTROL
Combine viii Reap $39,C0O. geo
Annually From Increased Prices
Sixth Advance in Cost to the Con-
sunler Made sferday-Resuit Of
the Defeat of the ArbucI<Ies-COas-
petition ThrottIed by the signal
Victory of Great Monopoly.

/ NEW YORK. June 27.-The consumer
must hereafter pay more for his sug4 r
/ than he has paid for years. The trust
| yesterday made the sixth advance in the
! price OF refined sugar within five weeks
/ IL was an advance agreed upon long ago.
| when the trust took Rehner Arbuckle. its
competitor. into camp and received his
complete surrender; but the raises hav-
been made in installments.
The six advances have all been the same
that is. 10 cents a hundred pounds each.
They foot up so cents hundred or a
gross raise OF more than half cent a
pound.
The present trust price is $50 cents per
pound Deducting the trade discount of
10 cents hundred pounds and l per cent
I discount for cash, the net price is 559
cents
This raise in the price Of sugar, effected
in FIVE weeks, means that the people OF
the United States viii pay to the sugar
producers at the rate Of $50 O00.0 .00O a year.
more than they paid before the present
COM bine was made.
Not one cent of this $50 OO0 coo will go
to the men who work in the sugar redner-
les. II viii be pOcketed b. the HAVEN y
ers and the Arbuckles and their allies
The devices by which the Sugar Trust
has placed the sugar consumers OF tbs
country wholly at their mercy. illustrate
strikingly the powers Of tie trusts VIII
the Havemeyers formed the Sugar Trust
it was with the idea, they said Of cheap
ening production by refining sugar an
enormous scale
oh. -f,-
Haverneyers proceeded to co1tro. it in the
same way as the Rockefeliers did the pro
duction and manufacture Of Oil
There were obstacles, however. for rival
refneries existed that declined 10 sell cut.
The refining OF sugar Was to pr flabls for
them TO give up.
Then followed the fght Of the trust wi h
the rbuckle brothers. TIE Ar5uckl sre-
fused to stop refining sugar. The Have
meyers tried 70 fight them in the c-d
trade.
The fight between the Havemeyers a-d
the ArbuckIes lasted twenty N Et-s Tee
losses Of both sides were estimated AZ
Sl5.000CC0. OF this sum the trust lost
SI1CC0OOC and the Arbuckles 81 eco 600.
The Sugar Trusts diviGeLts on its d-id
capital were cut 80 per cent. and its stock
fell from lS2 TO % -
When the twenty months Of wa fare end
ed the trust calculated that IL could afford
90 lose more blocks Of Sl1. .cJCugr t-al the
ArGuck.es could afford 10 lose blocks Of
S+COO. coo.
The Arbuckles observed the situation in
about the same light, for four weeks ago
they ended the war. Competition was stop
ped The biggest concerns that surrender
ed TO the Hayemeyers were the Arbuckles
and McCehan. of Philadelphia. They did
not sell out 70 the trust but they made an
agreement allowing the trust 10 tx the
price Of sugar.
Other competing companies went into
the Havemeyer camp in q different way.
They combined themselves into one corpo-
ration. and agreed TO be the tool and chat
tel Of the trust. The combining concerns
were 3. u. Howell Son G Co. the NoiIeu-
hauer Sugar Refining Company. Os Brook
lyn; the National Sugar Refining Company,
Of lcnkers. and the New York Sugar Re
hniug Company. Of Williamsburg, othe.-
wise known as the DOschers. They formed
the National Sugar Refining Company OF
New Jersey with a preferred stock capital
Of $40 eco Geo.
When the Arbuckles fought the Have
meyers everyone who deals with a grocer
saved money. The trust VIII now proceed
20 make the public pay up its sugar bills
In the twenty months during which the
sugar war continued the redners lost ex-
actly $4,000 OOO. which. il Is to BE- assum-
will proceed te-geJ that back at the rate OF
100000 eco year. or $2.5G0.C00 a month. i,
six months they viii have recovered every
cent they lost during the war
When the National Sugar Refniue
Company OF New Jersey was established.
the Sugar Trust magnates. metaphoricalIv
speaking. were hiding in a back room.
James H Post. the trusts uouthpiece.
who was made its president. came forward
to see the reporters
What he exclaimed, "the sugar war
over2 Oh, dear, no, All that has hap
pened is that hereafter the situation will
be better controlled"
proof that the war was over and that
sugar was in the hands Of one MONOPOLY
was presently forthcoming. The new COM
pany announced that it would return to
the factor" plan of distribution-that is.
all its sugar would be distributed through
wholesale grocers. a system Incompatible
with the existence Of a state of competi-
ton
That the sugar refners. by the .ais-s
which they have announced in the price OF
sugar. will net $50 600. 600 a year is easiIy
shown. The consumption o. sugar ia ts,s
country is estimated at five thousand mil
lion pounds a year-a total Of nearly sew
enty pounds for each man. woman aad
child in the United States. Take 5000
million six-tenths OF q cent and the total
will be S3O. 600 600.
There are reports that 2.O0O 600 tons of
sugar have been bought in Germany and
Russia, and are to be shipped here to
compete with Sugar Trust goods. At the
present price it is said that sugar can be
brought from Europe and sold here at
profit The Sugar Trust here. with its
cheap labor refines sugar at a lower cost
than any manufacturer in any other coun-
try can do