The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-14
sCATHIHG DEHOUNCEMtHT or
AMERICAN SUGAR COMPANY
Continued From Page II

Pennsylvania Sugar Refinery in Phila-
delphia in 1903 by Adolph Segal he
showed how that concern, created to
be sold to the sugar trust, had by a
process of lending money for its COM
pletion drifted into the control of the
trust. Being sued by the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining company, he said, it
became necessary for the trust to en-
gage additional counsel, and they turn
ed to the firm of Strong and Cadwala-
der "one of those important New York
City legal firms to which great corpor-
atoms appeal for aid when they pro-
pose to violate the laws of the land.
or when they have violated the laws
OF the land"
Citing the names of this firm as in
cluding those of George w. Wicker
sham and Henry w. Taft he again
gave the list of the firm after Presi-
J dent Taft's Inauguration when Mr..
Wickersham had become attorney gen.
eral and Henry w. Taft had been mov-
ed up from fourth to second place in
the list of members.
When the case Of the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining company against the
trust came up on March 20, 1908, in
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, TdisclosesI
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.
lawyer became attorney general of
the United States, and the brother of
the president of the United States be-
came openly one of the attorneys for
the Sugar Trust"
He was aware he said that the at
torney general had read into the con-
gressional record a statement deny
ing that he had been an attorney for.
the Sugar Trust.
1T may be that the attorney gen.
eral 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 attorney general refuse to accept
any portion of it? The country would
like to know. He neglected in his.
letter, to state that the partner to
whom he refers, the member of the.
firm of Strong and Cadwalader who
was active in the defense of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company in these
cases, was the brother of the president.
of the United States.
81 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
of the United States"
But he continued on June 27. 1909
the attorney general wrote to John s.
Wise, United States district attorney
for the southern district of New York.
letter which Mr. Rainey thought
should go into the congressional rec
ord, although already published else
where. In this letter Mr. Wickersham
suggested to Mr.. Wise in respect to
the sugar fraud cases that "a strong
effort will be made tomorrow to per-
suade the president to interfere in
some way to prevent the indictments
Il respectfully contend" concluded
Mr. Rainey, "tRs.t 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 perpetra-
ton of these gigantic frauds ought to
be held mp to the contempt of the
country. In Pittsburg they have learn
ed how to reach the men higher up.
They simply propose immunity to the
men whose conviction is not import
ant 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 win pay the pen
atty to which their criminal conduct
has rendered them liable.
THE attorney general of the United
States, however. commences his prose-
cutions and ends them with unimnort-