The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-09
Washington Day by Day

Washington, June s.-(Special.) )-While
 we are waiting and watching here hourly | for special message from the President
 on the Cuban reciprocity saying in plain
 words to Congress that unless 1t enacts
 a law on that line he will call an extra
 ordinary session. and likewise hourly
 waiting and watching for the enforced
 retirement of General Miles, followed by
 a monstrous "devil to pay" we are sud-
 denly confronted by the greatest case of
 dog eat dog of which there Is any record.
 A message from the President demand | Ing legislation for Cuba Is as nearly cer-
 tain as anything in the course of na- tional legislation can be, and when the
 message is delivered 1t will prove to be a "howler'; and the enforced retirement
 of General Miles is almost as certain. In- deed, the Cuban message and the Miles | retirement may be written while this message is being penciled.
 But the case of "dog eat dog" which | will be forever memorable as a part of the history of damned Dingleyism, has | taken the breath out of Washington, and | great men and small are gasping, gur- | gling and snorting under the keen bricks of the cleverest trick played by the trusts since trusts began to curse this people. On the 17th of last January there was written in this place;
 There is something mysterious about
 this struggle between the beet sugar trust and the sugar trust proper. The war against the Nicaragua canal Is per fectiy plain-it Is being fought by the trans-oontinental railroads, which prefer to spend millions of money rather than see any trans-isthmian canal pass. But one is in dense darkness respecting the
 mystery involved in the struggle against Cuban reciprocity"
 The mystery is plain now. and it is the | sensation of Washington. The sugar trust proper has acquired controlling inter- est in the beet sugar trust. The big dog has eaten the little dog, and now that we view as the Monument It Is a plain case, and the greatest on record, that the dog has eaten the dog--the mastiff
 has swallowed the ''purp"; the mystery Is solved
 Havemeyer Rockefeller and the rest of
 that gang of billionaire freebooters un- der and by virtue of Dingleyism, finding
 the comparatively poor little beet sugar
 trust In their way. have made meat of
 1t by the slow and conservative purchase
 or a majority of the stock of the cor porations composing the grasping and | earth-claiming beet sugar trust. which
 was perhaps the meanest and most con-
 temptible of all trusts yet formed on this trust-ridden continent.
 Perhaps never before has combina- ton of capital relatively so small as that
 embraced in the beet sugar trust, been powerful enough to change the whole course of congress by tying the hands of the majority and playing with legislation as boy might play with roped calf It has been most amazing and continues
 to amaze and anger the president, who is without personal following. True 1t is,
 and shamefully true, that had 1t not been for few over-smart Democrats self
 elected leaders of their party in the
 house. the scheme of the beet sugar mem- bers, playing into the hands of the sugar trust, could never have been called to a vote. It was intimated in the Democratic caucus that on that fateful Thursday night, that an agreement had been reach ed to the effect that if the Democrats would vote with the beet sugar crowd. Crumpackerism would be dropped and
 discarded. But those who intimated such
 bargain next day, and there was pit
 fable exhibition of lack of manliness and straightforwardness, the bargain was de-
 nied by the Democrats within twelve hours after 1t had been declared on the floor of the house.
 But all that is now ancient history, as