The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-23
NOT As SWEET As SUGAR.


Is it possible that Nemesis has at
last overtaken the sugar trust? 1t
seems too good to be true, but the
fact that the president has ordered
the department OF justice to inves-
dgate the octopus gives ground for
hope.
The PENNSYLVANIA Sugar Refining
Co. years ago was tied in a double
bow knot by the Vaccinations of the
sugar trust. A money loaner, not
known to have any connection with
the trust, is alleged to have wheed-
led the man who controlled the re-
hnery into accepting a huge loan,
amounting to $1,250,000. After the
loan was made, papers subsequently
discovered to have been drawn by the
sugar trust counsel were signed, Civ
ing this money loaner control of the
board of directors of the refinery.
The scheme seems to have had all
the earmarks of a conspiracy as SUBJ
tie as ever was described in fiction,
by which the Havemeyer trust kept
out of the field of competition a re-
rels of refined sugar per day, and in
cidentally banl<rupted a Philadelphia
bank and caused the suicide of its
president
Last week the $3O,000,000 damage
suit growing out of this darkness was
settled out of court. 1t is said that
the trust paid $10O00,000 damages.
wifi q T.
bill pending, and on the heels of the
conviction of the trust for cheating
the government out of millions Dy
tampering with the scales on which
their importationS We're weighed IN
New York, it was hardly the time to
have all these startling facts come
out in court. SO the trust capitu-
lated,
But President Taft does not seem
disposed to accept such suppression
of the truth. He is said to have or
dered Attorney General Wickersham
to investigate the sugar trust. so as
to find out whether or not, in con-
spring to wreck an opposition refin-
cry. it was not guilty of a conspir-
Sherman law. 1t seems like an excel
lent trail on which to camp.
And incidentally the president, our
senators and our representatives in
congress should bear in mind that the
sugar trust is made possible by just
one phrase in the tariff bill-the
words: mot above No. 16 Dutch
Standard in color
These words prevent the foreign
sugar producer from making a sugar
light enough in color for the market.
These words send all importations
of foreign sugar to the wharves of
the sugar trust for whitening.
These words make the sugar trust
They are necessary for the prOtec-
ton of our beet or our cane sugar
With these words eliminated, our
beet sugar producers would still have
a protection of from $40 to $1S2 2
cents per hundred pounds on sugar
With these words eliminated. all our
domestic sugar interests would be as
prosperous as now.
But the people at large would be
benefited. We should have good
sugar, unrcfined, but perfectly fit for
table or kitchen use. offered by the
sugar producers of the world to our
brokers and wholesalers and on sale
in every community at lower prices
than the sugar trust refined product.
The income of the government would
not b. cut down. 1t would be in
creased from five to seven millions of
dollars per year by the coming in of
better quality of sugar than the No.
16 Dutch Standard which would pay
4 higher rate than the dark colored
sugars now imported.
If our senator or representative
votes for the retention of the No. 16
Dutch Standard test in the bill. let's
strip him when he comes home to
ind the brand, "A. S. r. c." which
means that he is the property of the
American Sugar Refining Company.