The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-05
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN FAMILY
PAYS $40 MORE FOR SUGAR
THAN ENGLISH.
Lucius Littauer, Glove Manufacturer
Receives Reward for Stickinq
Close to Cannon.

Refined sugar sold in New York last
year at an average price of 496 cents
a pound wholesale. The average family
of five uses 400 pounds of sugar a wear.
which means that the American family
paid for sugar last year at least s11
more than the British family 1t also
means millions of unearned profits to
the sugar trust.
1t is being pointed out no effort is
made in the Payne bill to change the
situation. The sugar monopoly was
practically permitted by the ways and
means committee to write its own re-
vision law What did it want? Pro-
viding impOrtations from the Philip
pines was limited to a point far below
any possible danger to the local mar
ket in the United States monopolized
BY the sugar trust the managers of the
trust were willing that the duty on re-
fined sugar be reduced-hoW much?
one-tWentietn of one cent a pound.
Why is the republican party protect
ing the colossal profits of the sugar
trust? is being asked. The public has
no way Of knowing, but may find in
terest in the frank words of Henry O.
Havemeyer, who, as president of the
sugar trust testified before a commit
tee of the senate that was appointed
to investigate the ugly rumors that
gained circulation following the MAX
ing of the tariff in 1894.
Hayemeyer was asked about the re-
lation of the trust to politics. He re-
piled that the sugar trust made it a
practice to contribute to the state
campaign funds to the party which
controls the local matters" What
Havcmeyer alluded to as local mat
ters' was the election of senators and
representatives to cOngress-where the
tariff is made-and of judges to the
state judiciary.
The democrats, assisted by a few re-
publicans, have proven that the Payne
bill is permeated with fraud from be-
ginning to end. There is hardly any
thing about the bill, according to
charges which frequently appear and
are substantiated in the congressional
record, which is as it was represented
to be by Mr.. Payne and the ways and
means committee. The statement is
sued purporting to explain the effect
of the hundred thousand words con-
tanned in the BILLS shown to have been
as fraudulent as the bill itself.
Lucius N. Littauer, former member
of congress, resident of Gloversville.
n. Y, a wealthy glove manufacturer
himself, is understood to have written
the glove schedule Whether he did
or not he has been in town haunting
the Ways and means committee and the
White House. Littauer is the recog- |
nized head of the great Gloversville |
glove making industry.
He stands for it in all it's relations !
to public affairs. He was known when
in congress as its representative. 1t
was his special concern, and mis- great
fortune represents investment in it.
Mr. Littauer is one of the closest
personal aHd political intimates of the |
present organization which controls the
house.
AS a member CT congress he was one |
of the recognized Syokesmen of Jo- |
seph G. Cannon. He was one of the
men VINO made Cannon the speaker OF
the house, When the fight over the |
readOptiOn of the Cannon rules started !
a few weeks ago, Mr.. Littauer was sent |
for He hurried on to Washington |
and was one of the group of inside !
managers for Speaker Cannon and the
old rules. He used his personal ac-
Quaintance and influence most effect |
lively To no man does the present |
managerial clique owe more for its re-
tention in control.
What was Mr. Littauers reward? No
one can say for certainty except the
members of the Payne committee. The
only thing that is known is that the
Payne bill revised certain schedules In
such way that thousands of dollars
in increased dividends will accrue to
Mr. Littauer
Mr. Littauer it has been stated. |
makes gloves. The glove schedules
In the Payne bill were revised upward !
Here is how the Payne glove sched- |!
uleS work out, and where Mr.. Littauers
additional dividends come from:
The little newsboy who gets a cheap
pair of cotton gloves to keep his mn
gers from freezing in the winter mas (
hundred per cent added to the COST
OF the gloves. The same is true OF the
cheap cotton gloves worn by the work
ing girls or the cheap sheep gloves
Worn by the man who drives wagon. |
In short, beginning with the hundred
per cent increase of duties on all the
cheaper grades of gloves the new
glove schedule sticks on an addltionai
tax clear to the 16-button shoulder
glove worn to the ball.