The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-06-03
BEAT IT COMING AND GOING.
Though Highly Protected, Yet
Fraud Is Practiced by
Sugar Trust.

various occasions to suggest that
protection for confirmed criminals is
little calculated to better moral con-
ditions. The sugar trust is the great.
est single beneficiary OF the tariff.
It's very existence depends on con-
tinuance Of the protection" which
the schedules give Il. Under that
protection" 1t gets away with
about $50, 100000 a year OF the
peoples money.
Yet this chief beneficiary Of the
tariff has been for decades a confirm.
ed, persistent, resourceiul violator Of
the laws. II has sneaked It's raw
sugar through crevices in the high
tariff wall behind which II is permit
ted to live, while competitors, Of
course, had to pay the full duty.
The story OF the custom house
frauds Of the sugar trust, as told by
Allen D. Albert in this paper, is the
one complete, circumstantial expose
OF the whole nefarious series Of plots
by which the Government has been
robbed. We have been privileged to
read a good deal Of late about the
"Case of the Seventeen Holes" Mr..
Albert brings out the startling fact
that this under weighing device OF
the holes In the scale posts and the
bits OF corset steel, was the seventh
scheme OF fraud which the trust has
employed to get It's raw sugar
through the customs without ying
the dutyl
tits a story Of almost unbelievable
persistence In crime. Seemingly the
supreme intelligence OF this vicious
combination was ready to stop 1T
no risk In It's greed for more, more,
more money.
In the face OF this expose OF de.
cades Of variegated and practically
continuous crimes against the rev
enues, we have the marvellous spec
tacle OF the sugar trust standing at
the doors Of Congress, asking-no,
demanding-the continuance OF the
present excuseless, indeiensible, dis
honest and vicious sugar protection.
That protection gives the trust the
breath OF life. 1t commissions 1t to
60 out and levy taxes against the
people. 1t amounts to letters oil
marque. By the grace OF this I'm.
parallelled concession, the sugar
trust gets the million which 1t uses,
according to uncontradicted evi.
dence, to destroy the integrity OF the
customs service.
How long shall this sort OF thing
go on? Has the Senate the courage
In the face OF this chain Of exposures,
calmly to sit by and vote another
continuance Of the special fsvors by
which this trust lives and robs and
brides and grows fat on Its sweets Of
plumber and crime? It Is time for
public men to understand that those
who shut their eyes and ears to
these things. will place themselves
under grave suspicion OF being NOV.
ed by the same inspiration as the
weighers who used the corset springs
to steal for the trust.
The sugar schedule OF the tariff bill
come to q vote In q few days. AT
that time there will be presented o
complete and convincing statement
OF the facts about the sugar trust'e
joker In the schedule. Every Sena
tor will learn what is necessary ia
stop the trust from continuing to
accept the benefits Of vrong.doipQ
on the chance that It may not have
to give them up.
VIII they stop II, or will they give
formal renewal Of the license ioI
crime?-Washington Times.