The Detroit times., 1910-11-29
Petition Filed in United States Cir
cult Tribunal Says Competitors
Have Been Driven Out of Field
by Ruthless Methods.
Combination Is characterized As
Ruthless Monster Which DAM
nified the Public"

department. OF justice touay, dppeaieu
/ to the United States circuit court to
outlaw the sugar trust. The comb.n
alton is characterized as Ruth
less monster which crushed all IL
could not control" and the courts are
asked to dissolve IL by receiver OF
otherwise and restore TO the sugar
\ trade the old-time competition.
Trust agreements, monopoly, fraud,
graft and the ruthless use OF power
20 crush or conquer Independents
are among the reasons given for ask
Ing the court to end the giant COM
bine's activity.
Against the Havemeyers and their
associates who built up the trust the
I government brief says:
They managed and directed all
the affairs of the former competing
concerns whose shares they held. de-
iotroyed competition, fixed the price
lot sugar, prevented others from en-
1tef1ng trade and commerce therein
land forced the retirement OF many
ALREADY so engaged. Enormous pro-
fits resulted and the public was dam
lni1ed."
The suit which was instituted by
District Attorney Henry A. Wise on
direction Of Atty.-Gen. George w.
Wickersham, il directed against the
American Sugar Refining Co. and 27
companies that either through force
or persuasion have been absorbed
by II. Twenty-seven individuals are
also named as defendants. The list
includes directors OF the main trust
N mt
IOuisine w. Havemeyer, Alkaline II.
Trelinghuysen and Electra II. Webb
are named because, with Horace
Havemeyer, they are executors OF The
will Of Henry o, Havemeyer, the big
gest figure I'm the sugar trusts his
tory Joseph f. Smith, head OF the
Mormon church. Is defendant by
virtue OF being president OF the Utah
Idaho Sugar Co., beet sugar COM
bhiation with an authorized capital Of
$l3,000.O0O. Ex-Gov. John c. Cutler.
of Utah. who is a director, Is also in
the list.
The directors of the trust are given
rs washington b. Thomas. president:
Arthur Bonner. George ii. Frazier,
Horace Havemeyer, Henry G. Niese,
Henry G. Mott Samuel c. Hooker.
Samuel Carr, Edwin 8, Marston, and
Edwin F. Atkins.
John ID. Spreckles and Adolph B.
Sprecbies are among those named as
defendant The governments brief
makes q book of Eli printed pages. Ii
10 set forth that the company was in
corporated In New Jersey, In 1891, and
has capital par value OF $4,000 900
Its objects as given In the certificate
OF incorporation, are:
"To purchase. manufacture, refine
and sell sugar, molasses. and melads.'
The companies that make up the trust
include refiners Of both cane and beet
sugar.
A chapter In the brief Is devoted
to facts about the sugar trade, and
another to an explanation OF tarlh
rates ON sugar.
A detailed account is given OF the
operations Of the Havemeyers and as
ISOLATED fpagnates from 1887 when
the trust was first filed. AT that time
there were % Independent refneries
in the country with capacity for pro-
ducing 23,4oo.ooo pounds OF sugar
day.
Under the leadership OF Fl. o.
Hayemeyer. Bonner. Atkins. Thomas
and others" says the brief, and own
ers and directors OF II Of the compel
in4 reilnerfes, which together carried
ON 30 per cent Of the sugar trade OF
the United States and Jointly were
OF dominating and controlling
lat determined. TO combine to destroy
the competitfon among them, exclude
III others Ind secure for themselves
control ana q monopoly OF commerce
and such trade.
aThey operated as the Sugar Rem.
cries Co, under q trust deed that
rave full control to IL trustees. All
the Subsidiary companies conveyed
their capital stock to the trustees IN
return for agreed parts OF $5O, Ooo
neeotiabls trust certificates.
.Tn pursuance Of the general con
spiracy. plan and purpose" the briel
goes ON. land In order 10 secure ah so
retain complete dominion over ,ne
trade and to obtain unconsclonapi'
PROFITS to those Interested, ihe uus
tees. their co-conspirators ana otners
did or caused to be done many thinss
some OF which are specified.
The specifcations include charges
that the .trustees smothered compe'i
tion and acquired and held mon
opoly for themselves" and many re
fineries were eliminated by them.
The Sugar Refineries Co. was ais
solved by the New York court OF ap
peals in 1890, and In January, 1921
the same gentlemen incorporated tht
American Sugar Refining Co, tne
present trust la New Jersey. Certih
Gates issued by the old trust were eN
changed for stock In the new com
pany. There we're then seven inde
pendent companies and most OF them
we're brought into the fold by pun.
chase or by ''cut-throat competition
that threatened them with failure and
bv trade agreement the latter meth
"a was employed In settling with the
(.alifornia and Hawaiian Sugar no
flninx Co, after a bitter trade war dur
fnx which the trust sold sugar at less
than the cost OF production. The Cal
ifornia compaLy, according TO the
brief accepted a bonus OF 100000 q
war for retiring from business for
three years.
5. The details OF the manner In which
The trust secured control OF the Penn.
oy1vania Refining Co. are outlined. and
ne Immense loss 10 those Interested
- o. '.Daoaso oURmn." that
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