Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-15
SCORES SUGAR Trust
CONGRESSMAN RAINEY DELW-
ERs scArHINo REMUNERATION
OF AMERICAN COMPANY.
BY PROTECTIVE
TARIFF SYSTEM, HE SAYS
Claims Corporation Has Secured Inn
nupity BY Liberal Campaign Con-
tributions- Demands Congressional
Investigation by Republican Major
ity in House.


Washington. April An delivering
a scathing denunciation Of the Am
erican Sugar Refining Company. in the
house of representative today, Repre-
sentative Rainey, of Illinois, did not
hesitate to make bold suggestions
concerning that most corrupt and
rotten trust ever created by the pro-
tective tariff system and President
Taft, Attorney General Wickersham,
and Henry w. Taft, brother of the
president.
Mr.. Rainey referred to President
Taft's message, sent to congress about
Ia year ago, in which the president adj
vised against an investigation Of the
sugar frauds by congress for the rea-
son that sit might, by giving immuni-
ty and otherwise, prove an emharrass-
ment in securing conviction Of the gull
ty parties"
Reviewing the history of the sugar
trust and especially recent fraudulent
acts in underweighing raw sugar for
the purpose of defrauding the govern
ment of millions of revenue, Mr.. Rain
ey said:
Outlines Situation.
"The situation in brief is as follows:
Prominent stockholders and directors
of the sugar trust are in grave danger,
or at least they were not long ago; the
doors of our penitentiaries were open
ing for many of them. They have, how
ever succeeded, thru their control OF
the republican party, in bringing about
this most delightful arrangement.
''The attorney general Of the United
States was until his appointment
sugar trust attorney, familiar with the
methods of the sugar tsust, exhibiting
even now remarkable sympathy for
it's officials in their difficulties.
The general counsel for the sugar
Trust is an ex-assistant attorney gen.
eral of the United States, loyal to the
republican party, familiar with the
methods and with the secrets of the at
torney generals office.
1.-The brother of the president of the
United States is one of the attorneys
for the sugar trust.
- E. Parsons. the father of the ex-
president Of the New York county re-
publican committee, is under indict-
ment on account of his offense against
the law in Philadelphia.
And the president of the United
States has advised against congress
sional investigation Of the sugar trust,
for the reason that it might prove en-
barrassing."
In a carefully prepared speech Mr..
Rainey proceeded to review many in
cidents in the career of the sugar trust
which he declared reached out thru
political parties and corrupted men las
no other law defying corporation has
ever been able to do
Immunity by Campaign Contributions.
And these thieves he said, "spend
this season of the year cruising in the
Mediterranean, or at fashionable Flor.
ida hotels, watching automobiles break
records along the beach; still repre-
senting themselves to be honest men.
The country is in debt and the men
who have contributed millions to the
republican campaign fund are, under a
republican administration. permitted to
now reimburse themselves by stealing
from the treasury Of the United
States"
He was aware. he said, that he was
again rendering himself liable to the
charge Of partisanship-
Il will probably be again excluded
by the republican majority from serv-
ing on the investigating committees of
this house." he added when you
discuss on this floor the attempted Of
lenses of men high in the councils of
the republican party, they answer by
misrepresenting what you say and by
charging you with partisanship. I am
well aware that the offense of lese ma
jeste has been fully recognized here
by insurgents and regulars alike on the
other side of the chamber, and I have
been adjudged guilty oft; but propose
toagain render myself liable to the same
charge. In the early days of the re-
public the old rule prevailed that a man
in public life must be above suspicion;
the rule now is that you must not sus-
pect."
Demands Action by Congress.
l respectfully contend" concluded
Mr.. Rainey, that the republican ma
jority in this house can not afford to
longer delay a congressional investiga-
ton; and the millionaire malefactors
who control the sugar trust and who
are responsible for the preparation of
these gigantic frauds ought to be held
up to the contempt Of -the country. In
FittshuTs they nave learned now TO
reach the men higher up. They sim.
ply propose immunity to the men
whose conviction is not important but
who are only tools in the hands of the
principal malefactors, and as a result
minor city officials We're a few days
ago. coming by scores in Pittsburg to
the office of the prosecuting attorney
and telling their stories. duplicating
the real criminals. And the time may
not be far distant when men who
pass in Pittsburg as respectable citi-.
zens will pay the penalty to which
their criminal conduct has rendered
them liable.
"The attorney general of the I'm