Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1910-02-26

of the Michigan Sugar company, per-
haps the biggest trust concern of the
entire beet sugar group, in the course
of long interview in the Detroit Jour
nal, denounced Hampton's story, and
paid his respects to it's author. Here is
the last paragraph from the annual re-
port of the American Sugar Refining
company (the trusD, published Jan.
i13.
The beet sugar companies in which
| the American Sugar Refining company
| is interested are the following; Ala
media Sugar company, California:
Spreckels Sugar company, California;
| Utah-Idaho Sugar company, Utah;
! Amalgamated Sugar company, Utah;
Lewiston Sugar company, Utah; Great
Western Sugar company, Colorado;
Michigan Sugar company, Michigan;
/ Iowa Sugar company Iowa; Car
Yer County Sugar company, Mime
sota Menominee River Sugar COM
pany, Michigan; Continental Sugar
company, Ohio.
This strange avowal on the part of
| the sugar trust of it's practical control
of the beet sugar business, which puts
its beet sugar allies in a rather sorry
plight after all their denials, is due, ac-
cording to Hampton's, to the Welliver
exposures. which have led to a new
prosecution of the sugar trust by the
| federal authorities, assisted by John
A. Wise
Hampton's, speaking of Mr. Welli-
yer and his part, says:
'Mr. Welliver has record of jour-
nalistic service and conscientious ef-
fort in behalf of better conditions in
politics and business, which places
! him beyond the need of defense
against such attacks as that of Mr..
I Warren. AS correspondent and editor
| in Washington, he maintained such
relations with President Roosevelt
that tho latter sent him on special
mission to Europe to study certain i'm
portant problems there, with the hope
of getting illumination for the way to
realization Of the Roosevelt program.
Mr.. Welliver did that work Just
as thoroughly and accurately as he has
done the work involved in his investi-
cation of the sugar trust. Mr.. Welli-
yer was the pioneer in the fight
against the trust, which has become an
affair of national moment More than
a year ago-long before the stencil of
sugar trust corruption was in the nos
trils Of the whole nation-Mr. Welli-
ven began his campaign. AS one OF
the editors of Washington newspa.
per he assailed the trust in series of
powerful articles. The material he
brought to bear in that great newspa-
per fight is reflected in the pages Of
the Congressional Record during the
tariff session. 1t provided the ammu-
milton, the leadership, and the inspira.
ton for the antitrust senators who
made the contest against the Aldrich.
Smoot-Sugar Trust-Mormon church
sugar schedule. That fight brought
the trust nearer to defeat than it has
I! ever found itself in tariff-making
bout. On the critical roll call change
of four more votes would have reject
! ed the trust schedule
! 1t Is easy to see that at this time
Mr.. Welliver has much the best of it.
| If he should succeed in unearthing the
sugar trust and in securing the
ieyidence for the government which
lit could not get in the former prosecu.
ton, he will easily be one of the most
important figures in the antitrust
crusade.
! Those who know Mr. Welliver best
have great confidence in his ability
to dig out the documents if any exist