The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-11-15
A TRUST CONSPIRACY.
HAvEMEYER STRIKES A BLOW At
DOMESTIC SUGAR.
Trust Magnatc's Recent Cut In Prices
an Evidence of Ills Determination to
Destroy, II Possible, an Agriculture
Industry of Great Magnitude.

| and If possible destroying the beet SUI
gar industry in the United States Mr..
H. o. Havemeyer, president of the SUI
gar trust, has ordered a big reduction
in the selling price OF refined icane
sugar. The reduction thus arbitrarily
put in force for an avowed sinister OBJ
ject is from 503 cents to 3ls cents per
pound for granulated sugar. AS stated
by the New York Journal of Com
| merce:
"The reduction is a blow aimed di-
rectly at the beet sugar interests of the
country. 1t applies only to such sec
| tons of the country in which beet SUI
gar completes and is so important that
ii means that most of the beet facto-
rles will be compelled to market their
product at loss If they live up to the
| contracts they have recently made.
The cut in price affects only such
| sugar as is shipped to Missouri river
! points, the eastern price remaining un-
changed. The blow is aimed at the beet
sugar refiners of Utah, Colorado, Cali
fornia and Nebraska where nineteen
twentieths of the entire beet sugar
product of the United States is manu-
featured. 1t is the practice of these
producers to contract for the sale of
their entire output at a discount Of 10
points from the Sugar trusts figures,
and at this discount the beet sugar
makers have been able to easily mar
ket all their sugar. If compelled to go
10 points below the trusts cut price OF
31A cents the beet sugar refneries
would be subjected to heavy loss and
would probably be forced to close their
refineries and cease production. Incl
dentally, of course, the market for SUI
gar beets would be Destroyed, involv-
ing tremendous losses to the farmers,
who have undertaken beet culture on
a large scale.
The complete destruction of an in
dustry which with fair chance is GER
tain to supply the entire amount OF
sugar required for consumption in the
United States, in value something over
0,OO0,0 900 a year, is aimed at by
Havemeyer The Sugar King is alarm
ed at the prospective competition OF
millions of acres devoted to the grow
ing of beets of high saccharine content
and of hundreds of beet sugar rein
cries scattered all over the country. SO
he DEGREES a 80 per cent reduction In
the price of cane sugar, hoping thereby
to crush cut this young industry before
it has the chance to grow to formld-
able proportions. For the same pur-
pose Havemeyer and his lobby are
working tooth and nail to induce con-
gress to place raw sugar on the free
list He will not succeed in either
scheme. The American people will not
permit the destruction of the beet SUI
gar industry.
The case of domestic beet sugar is
ably and convincingly presented In a
recent issue of the Oil, Paint and Drug
Reporter in an interesting contribu
ton from the pen of Prof. Ernest Mas,
one of the foremost chemists and
chemical engineers of the world, as
follows
Real American sugar is not cane
sugar, and a great deal less glucose,
that clandestine connection of sulphur
ic acid and starch which might pos
sibly, and with academic assistance, be
a sugar in theory-like, for instance,
certain derivatives of toluene, a con-
stituent of coal tar, but is not and
never was sugar to the palate, In spite
of it's being called grape sugar Real
American sugar is not potato sugar;
not even the fine saccharine product
found in sweet potatoes deserves that
denomination The real American SUI
gar, the coming sugar, which is fast
dethroning them ALL is beet sugar.
The manufacturing process is so sim
pie, the sugar beet so rich in saccha-
rine matter-nearly Is per cent-and
the finished product so free from the
Objectionable features of so-called
grape sugar. that it is only question
of few years when nearly every west
ern state from Michigan to California
will have it's quota of refineries.
The changed conditions due to our
war with Spain will ultimately and
most fortunately cause us to grow our
own sugar, save us 500, 100000 a year
which we now spend abroad, give us
wholesome syrups and develop home
industry equal to the requirements of
home consumption. This, Of course,
providing that no congressional inter-
ference should prevent a development
so desirable. Let the sugar tariff stand
as it is for several years, and while
this may not exactly meet the views
of Mr.. II. o. Havemeyer, it will surely
have for rational sequence, permanent,
cheap and wholesome sugar, home
grown and homemade sugar. beyond
the control of dictation Of the sugar
trust or its Affiliations.
Mr.. Havemeyer may embarrass the
domestic beet sugar industry by his
resort to arbitrary cuts in price and
to other INSCRIPTIONS methods but he
cannot destroy it. Homemade beet
sugar is here to stay. and its triumph
will involve the downfall of one of the
most obnoxious of all trusts-a trust
which, curiously in contradiction Of