The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-20

system Of underweigEing. and some Of
the checkers and weighers. small gov
eminent employees and hired men Of the
company, are being eriminally prose-
cuted for their part in the affair It is
idle to suppose that these men were
guilty Of perpetrating such a colossal
fraud without instigation from higher
up, bus so far none OF the officials of
the company has been placed in the
prisons-'a dock.
The settlement Of the suit of the
Pennsylvania company against the
trust for another s.. 1000, 900 and the can
collation. Of a debt nearly as large was
confession of wrongdoing on the part
of the American Sugar Refining com
pany, and convincing proof that the
officers Of that company did not dare
go into court and allow the facts in the
case to be laid bare. Now an effort
is being made to cover up the tracks Of
those engaged in the conspiracy. It is
up to the administration to see that no
guilty man escapes.
The story of how the plant of the
Pennsylvania Refining company was
forced into idleness is long and has
many ramifcations, but there is Moth
ing new in it. The facts were known
long before the suit recently compro-
missed was instituted. and Receiver
Earle petitioned the high and mighty
Bonaparte to be allowed the privilege
of placing convincing proof before him.
Mr.. Bonaparte lodged the issue, and
the sugar trust went unwhipped of
justice. It is certainly remarkable that
Mr.. Roosevelt, who gained great noto-
riety as a trust buster, who pursued the
Standard Oil octopus to its lair and Sc
cured a S29. 900 600 fine which failed to
stand the test in the higher courts; who
wanted 10 annihilate Hartman after
accepting a trifie Of S25O.OOO for cam
paign expenses from the Wall street
wizard; who turned the Northern Sc
curities company inside out, and per-
formed various other valorous deeds in
this particular line-it is certainly re-
markable that the great sugar trust.
whose offenses were known to all men,
should have gone scot free while the
bushes were being beaten by the off,
GERS Of the law in search of malefactors
tended that the sugar trust was a
good" trust, and, in fact, the magnates
themselves made no such pretensions.
Whether Mr.. Roosevelt's passive atti-
obligations is not known, but an ex-
PLANTATION is certainly due. Most people
will be disposed to agree with the New
York Times, which publishes two full
pages of the history of the shady trans
actions of the American Sugar Refining
company, and concludes an editorial
upon the subject as follows:
There is a very general and legit-
mate public curiosity as to the motives
Of the Roosevelt administration in per-
hitting the American Sugar Refining
company to pursue its criminal course
unchecked and unscathed. Mr. Bona
parts explanation is much too brief and
altogether unsatisfactory. Mr.. Roose-
welt is far away. but certainly there
must be members Of his administration
who know the facts. We should sup
pose that they would see the necessity
of prompt and adequate explanation"
Now is the time for someone to speak
up and satisfy the public curiosity. It
might not be out of place for the Spe-
ciaI Contributing Editor of the Outlook
to tell what he knows about the matter