Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-02
ROOTS SUGAR TRUST WORK,
What Appears to BE a Scheme to
Fitch Funds from the Cuban
Treasury.

Treasury.
Secretary Root appears to have all
the elements of the practical politi-
clan of the New York machine stripe.
He knows how to get funds to carry
on any campaign he is interested in.
Secretary Root appears to have the
Cuba reciprocity cause very much at
heart for at his instance the Cuban
military government, which we have
just Withdrawn from the island, en-
gagged the services of that sugar pa
triot, who is always for the "Old Flag
and an Appropriation" f. b. Thurber
to enlighten the American people on
the needs of Cuba and the poverty of
the sugar trust.
This kind interest of Secretary
Root in the cause of the sugar trust
appears to have appealed to the gen
crosby of Gen. Wood to donate and
caused him to make donation to the
sugar trust campaign fund for reci-
procity. The generals salary was a
handsome one, some $4,000 year,
but the Root training, or perhaps his
orders, persuaded Wood that the
Cuban government funds would be
the proper source for the sugar trust
campaign fund to come from. The
Thurber mode of campaigning is by
circular letter, and is expensive, as
will be seen from the following bill
which Gen. Wood ordered paid. Not
only that one, but three more of sim
liar amount, of which the following
is true copy:
Form S, Voucher NO. 81. Apst1ucr n.
Account month Of April 2, 1902
1.-THE Omitted States military government
of the island of Cuba 10 the United States
Export association. Dr..
A.FOr sending a third edition OF 81, 600
circular letters and accompanying
publications to leaders of thoushtin
tho United States, advocating a re-
huetion In the Duties upon Cuban
products. with reciprocal reduction
n the duties upon American prod
ucts imported into Cuba. $50
Received payment, United States Elk
port Association.
Asigned) "T. B. THuRBER,
President"
'.Aprtl 2. 1907
ITO service as per bin attached tses
abovso IN support of the Application
of the inhabitants OF the island of
Cuba for reciprocal tariff relations
4AccV
''Under authority OF Ges. Wood, March
a. 1902"
The document bore the following endorse
ment:
Headquarters Department. Of Cuba.
Havana, April 10. 1902.
1.-THE services herein charged for having
been performed under the verbal direc-
lions and authority of the military gov
ernor. this voucher. as submitted. Is ap-
proved and the auditor Is authorized to
pass the same
by direction Of the military governor.
4Signed) FRANK MCCOY,
AIDE de Camp"
paid by check No. 4O3,15s. April II. 1902,
for $3.50, on Banco Nacional de Cuba"
We would probably never have
Known where the funds came from to
carry on this sugar trust compaign,
If Senator Teller had not drawn it
out OF Thurber when under oath before
the senate committee on Cuban rela-
tions, which Is investigating the sugar
trust campaign. Thurber was rather
coy at appearing before the commit
tee, and it took some persuading to
get him on the stand. Evidently he
Was suspicious of Senator Teller's in
tentions, and we'll he might be. for the
senator also drew from him that that
generous old soul Havemeyer, had
also contributed tour-fgure check
for the same cause.
It would thus seem that the admin-
3stration, through Secretary Root and
Gen Wood, are hand and glove with
Havermeyer and the sugar trust, and
furnishing money to carry on the
sugar trust campaign, not out of their
own pockets, but, Rathbone-like, out
Of the Cuban treasury.
How these patriots do love the
Eubans! One can hardly believe such
things would happen. The next thing
that may be expected after such an
exposure of cooperation of the ad-
ninistration with the truAts is that
rome way will be found to make a
draft on the United States treasury
70 help the poor beef trust defend
ttsef against that other member of
fhe administration, the attorney gen.
eral.
After this exposure of the hHhing
Of campaign funds for the sugar trust
ICON the cuban treasury, while con-
Coded by the administrations, con-
Hreas wouA seem to be duty bonnd to
make an appropriation for the amount
:Hhat the sugar trust campaign fund
das receivd from the Cuban treasury.
Having shown she Cubans the way to
Influence legislation, we may IN the
future expect a continuance OF these
campaign methods by the new Cuban
government, in cooperation with Have
meyer and the sugar trust, until they
lget free Cuban sugar.
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