The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-04-20

| dollar, nor paid out one dollar at my
I request, or to my knowledge, for the
purpose of electing me to the Senate,
| he asserted. And what is further, not
! one of them has been permitted tC
| furnish me one cent in the great ex-
pense to which I have been put in de-
Tending my honor for the past three
years. Some of them have sent me
money. I have returned the money
sent without using it in every case.
have borne the burden alone
ROOSEVELT MALICIOUS. HE SAYS
Mr. Burton then entered into his at
tack on the President.
II have been frequently asked who
it was that inspired this unjust and
cruel persecution against me. L have
not made any public answer to that
question. I do it now. 1t was Theo-
dore Roosevelt. True, he had to oper-
ate through others. Some of them &C
ted with malice of the kind that ami
mated Roosevelt. Others were driven
to help in the great wrong through
fear. 1t was like him to deny having
anything to do with instituting the
proceedings against me until after I
was convicted. Then he boasted:
1t was / who aimed the gum
THE question naturally arises, why
did he do it? To answer that question
we must go back to the long session
of Congress that convened in Deem
Der, 1901. to find the first cause of the
malice of Roosevelt toward me-
Mr.. Havemeyer of the Sugar Trust,
he said, had awakened to the fact that
the business of that concern was
threatened with ruin. Under the Ding
ley bill the beet-sugar industry was
making great strides.
1.-The Dingley bill was passed late In
1897 he said. ION the first day of
January, 1898, there were only six beet
sugar factories in this country. On
the first day of January, 1901, there
were thirty-six completed and eighty
six others that were projected, and all
to be built as fast as money could con-
struct them. The estimated price OF
these eighty-six beet sugar mills was
to cost about $50,000,000
I'm passing, let it be remembered
that as a result of the agitation about
Cuban reciprocity, and later the
making of the Cuban treaty, eighty of
these eighty-six prospects were aban-
doned and only six of the mills were
carried to completion, and they were
completed only because the work had
so far progressed on each of them as
to make it practically impossible for
it to be abandoned.
zone other important truth should
be stated just here-that from the time
of the beginning of the agitation for
Cuban reciprocity with the exception
of these six mills to which 1 have re-
ferred, there was not a single beet SUI
gar factory erected on this continent
Tor period of more than two years
thereafter The business received
such a shock that the building Of mills
wholly ceased, and since that time has
progressed just as fast, and no faster,
than is permitted by the Sugar Trust
ALLEGED PLOT OF SUGAR TRUST
Returning now to the conditions
that existed in 1901, it was apparent if
the beet sugar factories continued to
go up as rapidly in proportion for the
next six or seven years, as they had
in the past three, the business of the
Sugar Trust would be at an end; We
would be making all our sugar for
home consumption from the beet. At
that time the Sugar Trust was maxi
ing at least $50, 900 per year profit,
and it can readily be imagined that
the men who owned this rich gold mine
would not lose it without a struggle.
There was but one salvation for the
Sugar Trust and that was through
Congress. 1t had to appeal to the pol
icitical community of interests First
it had to reach the President, the head
of this all-powerful organization. At
that time it's old attorney, if not it's
then attorney, Mr.. Elihu Root, was
Secretary of War. Its plans, as We
shall hereafter see, were to move
the War Office
The plan was to bring Cuban sugar
into competition with the beet sugar,
he said, and to this end Secretary
Root, Gen. Wood, and all the agencies
the Sugar Trust could command, made
a campaign for Cuban reciprocity
Distress in Cuba was pictured to the
people, although good times,
such as Cuba had not known in it's
history, We're apparent everywhere.
Roosevelt in the meantime had be-
come President" the speaker went on.
AT all times the masterful politician,
and looking ahead, he knew the very
great value of attaching to him such
q power as the Sugar Trust He had
not been President twenty-four hours
before he OWNED the danger to his
nomination and election in the follow
ing campaign.
BITTER WORDS FOR PRESIDENT.
mo man nor method was too bad to
De put aside by Roosevelt if it would
1elp him to continue as President. No
erine was too black to deter Roose- |
Felt, if its commission would minister
% his ambition. He knew that the