The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-09
President May Put Whip to
 Congress on Cuban Question

 the congressional days pass by. What is of momentous interest is that the sugar trust of Havemeyer. Rockefeller and the others have absorbed the beet sugar trust of Oxnard, which has been so steadily backed by some of the best men in con- gress, including Mir. Elkins, MT. Bab- cock and MT. Tawney. And 1t does seem trife strange and unanswerable that Mir. EllSins should lead the eighteen Re- publican senators who decline absolutely to consider the reciprocity feature of the bill expressing as they do a willingness to accept the plan of a rebate on sugar. said rebate to be paid to the so-called government of Cuba for distribution among the Cuban planters and thereby prevent the HaveIneyer-R Rockefeller crowd from obtaining possession of the money"
 We are given to understand that Have meyer and Rockefeller are determined at all hazards to retain control of the sugar market of the United States" That means nothing if 1t does not mean lust for money. And why not?
 It is quite possible that Havemeyer is . truly generous man, who gives to char ity and the public welfare by stealth. and does not blow his horn from the street corners or the housetops, for there is no record that he ever gave away any, thing
 On the other hand, Rockefeller has given some, twelve millions to a so-called university in Chicago, the mission or which seems to be chiefly to teach un- godliness, to make war upon the sacred teachings of the church. Last year and this year you had in Birmingham one of Rockefeiler's evangels of anti Christian ity. and innocent school children, brought up in the faith of the fathers. were forced to listen to his blasphemy. That same University of Chicago, created by Rocke- feller, Is doing more harm to Christian ity than any other institution in our land, not excepting Goddess Harvard, with it's humbug preacher-president Thus, whatever Havemeyer may do in secret. Rockefeller demands that his pulp lie gifts be printed under scare heads in the newspapers. But it does not mat ter. Both of them are robber barons of Dingleyism; both laid the foundations of their vast fortunes in taxation of the la- boring people of America! They demand more millions now in order to further advertise themselves. Observe Rocke- felier's penurious treatment of the noble old Howard College at East Lake college which has done more real good than he will ever do with all his mill lions. Any self-respecting man ought to starve before he would vote to expend one dollar to enable the Rockefellers and the Carnegies to further advertise their self-righteousness in Birmingham, Montgomery or any other Southern town. The cry should be: ITO the devil with these seif-righteous ones."
 Yet there Is great comfort in the fact that the self-righteous barons of Ding leyism have outwitted the self-righteous President and leaders of the Republican party by stealing upon them in the dark and absorbing their discarded pet, the beet sugar trust The President and the few leaders of his party standing behind him, who for reasons of their own money - campaign reasons, let us say have cast off the beet sugar trust be- cause 1t was so poor that 1t was pro. tected" to the extent of only 9s per cent and had an income of only two million and a quarter on capital of nine mill lions.
 The beet sugar trust was turned down for the enormously rich sugar trust proper. and hundreds of others. includ- ing the beef trust, which, as blind. the President is affecting to prosecute. Now 1t transpires that the beet sugar trust has been taken under the wings of the omnipotent Havemeyer- Rockefeller free- booters!
 Now we shall have fun, and the great est of all will come from Miles when he tells the truth.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER