The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
Thinks He Has Found Some
Tariff Juggling.
SUGAR TRUST ANTICS
Control Beet Factories as Well
as Other Output.
Now Seeking Protection" for
the Beet Interests.

treasury department for lnIorihdtloi
about the imports OF raw sugar lnoo
by year for a period of years, the
amounts of raw sugar imported Tor
each refining concern IN the Chileu
States. the countries whence IL CANE ne
the amount from each country, ana the
price paid for it abroad and the DUTY
charged at the American ports.
Senator Bristow is one of the men
who stand for real revision or the SUI
gar schedule, and he has had the same
dificulty which has confronted other
investigators, in the effort to get facts
The resolution just introduced WIN
bring forth some valuable .intormauon'
hut it will not nearly cover the ground
The senate committee on nnance
ought to be directed to set its mechin-
cry at work to provide the senate WIN
information as to the interests OF the
American Sugar Refining company IN
the beet and cane sugar business OF
this country.
1T is a matter of common knowledge
that for a number of years the sugar
trust has been reaching out aTter the
controlling interest in beet sugar COM
nspics. It is commonly understood to
own 81 per cent of the stock In the big
sugar concerns which operate exten,
sively in Michigan. Utah. colorado. ana
other western states, and to nave large
AZ not actually controlling interests in
the Oxnard concerns.
These things are of the greatest inn
portance. If it can be established, as
there is everv reason to believe 1t can
he. that the sugar trust, far from be-
ing a competitor of the beet sugar con
Germs, in fact controls most of them. the
interest of both in the tariff becomes
,,11ch more obvious. The reason why
The beet sugar people are always put
20 the front in sugar tarff matters mere
will be clear. The confidence or the
trust in any arrangement satisfactory
&c the beet people VIII be eXplaIneu
MISUNDERSTANDING
It is confidently believed. on the
strength of what is considered entirely
reliable information. that the sugar
trust controls the stock in about one
third of rhe beet 4ugar companies IN
the United States, with vastly more
than one-third of the beet sugar prod
net. that its holdings are increasing
mrch faster than is the beet sugar in
dustry; that 1t is already so powerful as
absolutely to dominate the business;
and that IL uses the beet sugar inter-
est as its shield in every tariff discus
sion. Cannot the exact facts be had?
The most important appointment in
the United States consular service
credited to the state of Kansas today
is held by Charles c.. Eberhart of Sa-
lima He is consul to Barranquilla,
Colombia and his salary is $500.
Mr.. Eberhardt has been in this
branch of the public service for over
vice and deputy consul general at Mex
leo City. October 29, 1904 In May, 1906,
he was appointed consul at Iquitos.
Shortly following the reorganization or
the consular service under an act OF
congress, Mr.. Eberhardt was promoted
TO his present post
AS has been heretofore stated in the
State Journal. the state of Kansas is
very poorly represented IN the con-
sular service. Now that consulS have
MI fntn Ha
will not be possible for Kansas to I'M
prove its standing with other states in
this branch of the public service unless
It produces candidates who seek the
positions not because of political pre-
Torment but solely for the purpose of
making the Jobs a future profession.
Candidates are required to have a good
business education and speak at least
two or three languages. They must
stand a special examination laid down
by the secretary of state, and If they
pass muster their first assignment will
be some unimportant post. II the cam
didate makes good in a year or two, his
ability is recognized and he is pro-
NOTED to a more important and better
paying office.
o. B. Rently of Wichita is probably
the only Kansas man seeking a job in
the consular service just now. He
sought recognition during the last
Roosevelt administration. but for some
reason or other failed to land an APP
pointment. Senator Curtis is urging
his case. 1t is understood that Mr..
Bently is wealthy man and well
equipped to enter the public service he
seeks.
The most important post ever held in
the consular service by Kansas was
when william r. Bingham of White
CITY was consul general at Cape Town,
Cape of Good Hope. His salary was
$4,000 n year.
Mr.. Bingham was appointed upon the
recommendation of Senator j. r. Bur
ton and Congressman James NJ. Miller
He was dropped from the service rath-
er uncermoniously during the Burton
trial on order of Presidnet Roosevelt
the latter not even consulting either
Senator Long or Mr.. Miller in the mat
ter. Efforts were made, however. by
Long. Miller and Curtis on a number
OF occasions later to have Mr.. Bling
ham either reappointed to Cape Towr
or to some equally as good post else
where. Although the Kansan had {
good record in the service, the presi
dent declined to reopen his case Of
give him further recognition.
Kansas postmasrers appointed
Benjamin NJ. Bovard at Utica Mes.
county, to succeed w. G. Nuttle. who
declined reappointment: Marion C
Bolen at Straight Creek Jackson
county; Rollie d. Merritt at shannon
Elva b. Hilton at Attica; Bert Oars
at Vinton.
John r. Thierer and Harry Stewar
of Liberal, Kan. have been appointed
rural letter carriers.
The body of Mrs Annie or Maut
Kelly who shot and killed herse1
here a few days ago. was not claimed
by her relatives living in Arkansa
City, Kan, but inferred at the ex
pense' of Michael Lynden of this city
Her sister wired the authorities her
that It was impossible for her to com
here and to bury the body. Had no
the dead woman's friend, Mr. Lynden
come to the front when the relative
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