The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-09-15
SUGAR TRUST GROWS
BY TARIFF FAYORS
October Hampton's Maya
zine Contains Article Expos
ing Gigantic Monopoly.

An expose OF the methods OF the Sugar
trust IN an article in Hampton's Maya
zine for October by Judsen c. Welliver,
OF The Washington Times political staff.
is being widely advertised throughout
the country BIZ Hampton's
The synopsis sent out by the maya
zine gives some indication Of the vfrile
nature Of the article and the grasu Of
the writer upon the intricate subject
According to this Investigation each
person in the United States eats about
eighty pounds OF sugar per year. and,
under the system OF protection" which
the trust has imposed in order that it
may live and fatten. il appears that
sugar costs the people about 100000
per year more than IT would If this pro-
lection were abolished According to
the writer, the trust, nurtured in tariff
discrimination, has now become so pow
erful that the Government is over
Swallowed by the might OF its creature
and is helpless.
The series Of articles, Of which It is
understood there viii be FIVE or six. TO
appear in as many months, viii present
a careful study Of the entire history OF
the Sugar trust, and OF It's antecedents
II will tell the various crimes Of su-
gar" which, it appears, began with the
first tariff Of the country, and have con
tinued ever SINCE a marvellous series Of
frauds against the revenues, AZ the very
time when the sugar refining industry
was being immensely protected by the
tariff.
Mr.. Welliver's study OF the Sugar
trust began with his work as the writer
of a series Of editorial articles In The
Munsey newspapers during the tariff
session OF Congress, on the sugar tariff
and the trust. These articles attracted
extensive attention, and were widely re-
produced and read into the Congress
sionaI Record The attention OF the
publishers OF Hampton's was attracted
10 them, with the result that Mr.. Vel
liver was engaged 10 expand the ma
terial into the history whose publication
that magazine is now beginning.
Compared 10 the Sugar trust, Stand
ard on IS q 6enefactor 70 the public
says Mr. Welltver- The Rockefeller
Oil trust takes American raw mater ais,
turns them into vast variety OF In
ished products. supplies the American
huge surplus abroad. II dominates, in
the name Of American industry an6
comm erce, worldwide field. In the
largest way IL IS CONTRIBUTOR 10 ma
uonal wealth. prosperity, trade
The Sugar trust reverses all this. It
Is merely a favored broker in foreign
goods To protect that brokerage and
MAINTAIN Its monopoly, II stiles Ameri-
can industry. It seized control OF the
American beet-sugar industry wnen that
industry promised such expansion as in
time would supply the American mar
ket. and since then its policy has been
10 use beet sugar. not for the legitimate.
purpose of industrial development, but
20 shield the trusts monopoly Of REIN
Ing fOreign-made sugar.
1T sends abroad more good American
money each year than any other indus
try in the land. to buy raw sugar, when
II the blight OF its domination were re-
moved, American beets would soon sup
ply the entire American market. This
money could be kept here, and this in
dustry developed. II the tariff were not
adjusted to protect the trust rather
than the beet-suEar industry. For the
sugar tariff, pretending 10 protect the
beet-sugar interest. really protects the
trust and EIEes IL domination over the
beet manufacture. The Sugar trust IS
the holder Of a franchise 20 stand and
take toll at every gateway to the Amer
lean market It is the typical Robber
Baron Of industrial monopoly and irri-
gated finance II could not have existed
but for the tariff. and IL could not con-
tinue but for the continuance Of its
tariff frvOrs."