Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-14

the circuit court for the southern dis
trict of New York the name of Henry
w. Taft he said appeared as counsel
for the sugar trust.
This situation he said, "discloses
the fact that in the hour of their great
est stress the managers of this most
Infamous. of all corporations were as
resourceful as ever. Matters had
been SO arranged that sugar trust law
yer became attorney general of the
United States, and the brother of the
president of the United States became
openly one of the attorneys for the
sugar trust"
Aware of Denial.
He was aware he said that the at
torney general. had had read into the
Congressional Record a statement de-
nying that he had been an attorney
for the sugar trust.
1T may be that the attorney general
was not consulted in this suit, and it
may be that he did not render any
service in connection with it," said Mr..
Rainey. But the attorney general
has not yet stated how the enormous
fee the firm of Strong and Cadwalader
received was divided Did the attor-
ney general refuse to accept any por-
ton of it? The country would like to
know. He neglected in his letter to
state that the partner to whom he re-
fers, the members of the firm of
Strong and Cadwalader who was active
in the defense of the American Sugar
Refining company in these cases, was
the brother of the president of the
United States
Il submit that the attorney general
ought not TO seek TO avoid even an in
active connection with this Infamous
trust by throwing the entire burden
and the disgrace of such connection
upon the brother of the president of
the United States"
effort" with President.
But he continued on June %. 1903,
the attorney general wrote to John
S. Wise. United States district attor-
ney for the southern district of New
York, a letter which Mr. Rainey
thought should go into the Congress !
sional Record, although already pub !
lished elsewhere. In this letter Mr. |
suggested to Mr. Wise |
in respect to the sugar, fraud cases
that "a strong effort will be made to- |
morrow to persuade the president to |
interfere in some way to prevent the |
Il respectfully contend" concluded |
Mr. Rainey, that the republican ma
jority in this house can not afford to |
longer delay a congressional investi- |
cation; and the millionaire malefac-
tors who control the sugar trust and |
who are responsible for the perperta-
ton of these gigantic frauds ought to
be held up to the contempt of the
country. In Pittsburg they have
learned how TO reach the man higher
up. They simply propose immunity
to the men whose conviction is not i'm,
portant but who are only tools in the
hands of the principal malefactors,
and as a result minor city officials
were few days ago coming by scores
in Pittsburg to the Office of the prose
cutting attorney and telling their !
stories, duplicating the real criminals
And the time may not be far distant
when men who pass in Pittsburg as
citizens will pay the penal
" to which their criminal conduct has
rendered them liable.
Misses Men Higher Up
THE attorney general of the United
States, however, commences his prose
and ends them with unimpor-
ant officials and s1S-a-week checkers,
md the real persons guilty of the
most colossal fraud in the history of
'ur government are permitted to go
bout without punishment, without ex-
,osure, still posing as honest men,
till willing and still able to contribute
o the campaign funds of the republi.
an party
Taft Opposes Sugar Probe.
Washington, April IA conference
It the White house late yesterday de-
-eloped to the evident satisfaction of
President Taft that sufficiently rapid
Roadway is being made with the pros
cutions against the so-called sugar
rust for customs frauds, and that there
s little Likelihood of a congressional in
-estigation at this time. 1t is presum-
ID, at any rate. that the administra-
ion influence will be used against an
inquiry, and without the consent of
he president there is practically no
Eay in which congress can get the in
ormation which is being used by the