Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-12-02
INSTITUTES ACTION
AGAINST COMBINE
UNCLE SAM ALLEGES AMERICAN
SUGAR REFINING CO. sTI-
FLIES COMPETITION.
FILES vOLUMINOUS PETITION IN COURT
Prays for Perpetual Injunction
Against Parties and Corporations
Named From Continuing
Evil Practices.

New York City.-On all fours with
the governments suit to dissolve
the tobacco trust, which is now pend
ing on appeal in the United States
supreme court, was an action begun
in the United States circuit court here
against the American Sugar Refining
Co., known as the sugar trust.
A voluminous petition was filed by
United States District Attorney Henry
A. Wise He had the assistance of AS
sistant District Attorney James R.
Knapp in its preparation. Before the
bill finally was completed it had the
approval Of Attorney General George
w. Wickersham. The petition alleges
that the trust has employed the usual
means of all such large industrial
combinations in stining competition,
by purchasing controlling interest
in competing concerns where that
crushing out other concerns by un-
derselling in their territory.
One of the most sensational alle-
cations is that the late Henry o.
Havemeyer, for many years head of
the sugar combine, received S10,-
100000 in common stock of the Ma
tional Sugar Refining Co. of New Jer-
sey as a gift at the time that corpo-
ration was formed to take into the
combine four Independent companies
the National Sugar Refining Co.,
run by B. H. Howells Son & Co.; The
New York Sugar Refining Co. of Long
Island City, operated by Claus
Bosher; the Mollenhauer Sugar Re-
fining Co. of Brooklyn, and the w. ].
McCabe Sugar Refining Co. of Phil
adelphia Up to 1900 these compa-
nies were Independent and it is
claimed the American Co. was
determined to acquire them. Under
a plan inaugurated by Havemeyer,
John E. Parsons and James H. Post
the National Co. was organized and
took over the four plants. When the
new stock was ready for distribution,
the petition sets forth, Post delivered
to Havemeyer the entire issue of
100000 shares with a par value of
$10,000,000. The bill also alleges that
when the American Co. took over the
four Philadelphia companies-the
Franklin, the Spreckels, the Delaware
and the E. C. knight Co., Henry o.
Havemeyer and his brother, Theodore,
bought As per cent of the Spreckels
Co. and then sold It at a large profit
to the trust.
Asks For Perpetual Injunction.
In general the petition sets up that
hn 1nfn a,t
have been and are now engaged in an
unlawful combination and conspiracy
to restrain the trade and commerce
between the several states and with
foreign countries in raw sugar, sugar
beets, refined sugar molasses, syrups
and other by-products Of raw sugar
and sugar beets, and to monopolize
the same. Such unlawful combina-
tion and conspiracy is the result of
series of wrongful acts extending
over period of many years. In par
ticipating in these acts all of the de-
PENDANTS have been actuated by
wrongful intent to restrain interstate
and foreign trade in raw and refined
sugar and related articles and to
monopolze parts thereof"
The petition then prays for per-
petual injunction against the parties
and corporations named from contin-
uing the evil practices. The petition
furthermore asserts in effect that
within the American Sugar Refining
Co. there are two other trusts-the
National Sugar Refining Co. of New
Jersey and the Western Sugar Rein.
ing Co. of California-and that each
of these be enjoined from engaging
in interstate and foreign commerce.