Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-07-30
sass Trust Amonq Criminal Rich.


lawyer, banker and promoter OF Phlla-.
Alphia, happens to be at the present
tine, among other things, received
for the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining
Company. A highwayman proceed
Jag With the Sugar Trust in the Iole
Of assassin made necessary the ap.
pointment of receiver for that In
stitutioD, the Sugar Trust having
caused one Of its agents to negotiate
. Judas-losn to its budding rival.
The little Pennsylvania corporation
was in need Of money to extend lis
operations and gladly accepted the
loan agreeing to trustee majority OF
. the stock of the company as one OF
the conditions. The Sugar Trust by
"a deceit has secured the raining OF
one of its unlabeled agents as trustee
The individual making the loan i'm
nediately elected through that trus.
teeship new board of directors and
voted to close the plant until the loan
waspaid back. The Pennsylvania
Company ould not pay the loan IN.
less it was permitted to operate and
earn the money, so the trust has ef'
fectually put its young competitor out
of business.
Adolph Segal was the man who
built the Pennsylvania Sugar Rein.
ing Company. Gustav Kissel is the
man who loaned Segal $1,25O,OOO
Segal believed him to be an independ.
ent capitalist. In reality he was an
agent Of the Sugar Trust and the
:. money came from the corporation
The directors chosen under that
agreement were Kissel and three Of
his clerks and their decision to close
the Pennsylvania Company's plant
practically ruined Segal and those as
sociated with him. One of those as.
sociated in the enterprise committed
suicide. AT the same time this move
removed from the field a rival Of the
f. Sugar Trust and continued that cor.
soration's monopoly.
A corporation that would resort to
such methods to defraud would stop
1t no trick to advance their financial
standing at the public expense. Like
the sneaking huckster with his false
hottomed measures and plugged
weights the giant Sugar Trust with
some Of the wealthiest men in tie
nation at its head, with lawyers of the
stamp of John G. Milburn to plead
. cases was at that time cheating
the government with false weighing
raw sugar at its refneries.
And as third cause of complaint
the company had been found guilty OIL
accepting rebates on its shipments.
The Nations highest government
officers, through either a lack of a.
bility or of inclination, permitted the
conditions above noted to exist
though the governments brightest
painted laws were being violated
And this, too, during the adninistra
ton of Theodore Roosevelt who wa:
freest Of corporation faint of any Re-
publican leader Of the time. In fac
Ar. Earle makes the damaging state.
ment that he brought the matter O
rebates and the bludgeoning of thu
Pennsylvania Company to the at
tention Of President Roosevelt ans
asked in the name Of common decen
g that the Government raise a han,
n defense Of her citizens. HIS lette
dated, September 81, 1906, addresse,
b Theodore Roosevelt contained thi
statement:
81 have all the details Of this con.
spiracy. l believe l know all the in
Aiuduals responsible TORT. IfIar
10 take this journey alone, 1 am d.
termined to discharge the duties tina
ny conscience places upon me with
out regard to the results to me pei
sonally; but I have every reason t
believe that you whom l address ar
fortunately man of like mettle and
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