The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-21
S|NOOT WORKED
TRICK ON SENATE
How the Apostolic Senator Stood
in With the Sugar
Combine.
USED SCOTCH REFINED
SUGAR AS A SAMPLE
Led Senate TO Believe That III
Was Scotch Bleachcd Sac
charinc Product.

iains another article on the sugar com
stood by, The article, which is writ
ten by Judson c. Wellivcr. strikes from
he shoulder and does not mince words.
Herc Is the way the article refers TO
Apostle SmooL and tho methods he
used to trick the senate. Says Hamp.
ton s:
When the sugar schedules came up in
The recent Taft tarifr bill, Senator Rristow
on Kansas advocated throwing out the
Dutch standard Then here the sugar
senators reSortcd to remarkable trick.
senator Foster OF Louisiana. posing rs
sugar expert. solcmuly said the Dutch
standard was necessary to prevent great
frauds on the public. 4 process he said.
bad been invented in Scotland by which
most dangerous impurities could be
blcachcd and made 10 look as white as
pure graduated, Only the color test
he said. could keep out these S5-per-ccnt-
pure sugars.
While Senator Foster was making this
plea. Senator Smoot was passing around
me me. chamber small bottle Of sugar; II
was almost as white as granulated. but
iner OF texture. Ii wnS presumed To he
II sample of that S5-pcr-ccnt sugar
which Senator Foster feared.
Smoot Passed Sample.
The thing senator Foster was talking
10 bleach nm uuadUltrTated brown sugar
white and yet leave II only 81 per cent
pure. Inc mere fact that the thing was
impossible made no difference The ar
gum"nt would serve. so long as there was
nobody present who could dlsproyc il
roster made tho argument: Smoot passed
around The sample OF S5-pcr-ccnt pure
white sugar" The sugar senators nodded
SaSclN over that bottle. il IL had been
an internal machine they could not have
been more horrncd. They would never
- tssig r. 81
dear people-uo. never, The Dutch stand
erd Was yindicatcd
Now. tho senators who were fooled
by that sample-if any of them were
foolcd-did not know and do not know
Aet. the truth about ii. II is highly i'm
rortnnt to set ii down here.
How Apostle Tricked Senate.
=. Th3t ssamPle. passed around as 4
Scotch bleached sugar of only So
degrees. WIS in fact Scotch re-
tncd sugar. and instead OF being OF
:" degrees purity. was Of almost IS de-
s!ccs purity
How do ! know?
Because Senator Smoot. being asked
tlter where he procured the sample said
no had got IL from WIllett & Gray. the
sugar sietisticians. OF New York. and
analyzed IL for him.
WIN you let me have a sample from
your hottie:" The inquirer asked.
Tho senator declined.
Then can You tell me where I can
20, ono like ito'
From WiTett & Gay. whore I got
mine. replied Senator Smoot
Inercupon the inquirer wrote TO Winett
n Gray. who replied that they could not
pfoNidc another sample Of the sugar they
iisd sent Senator Smoot; but. they said.
II was Scotch refined sugar.
1hcn The Investigator. anxious TO learn
~ there was such thing as an unadul-
icraled S5-pcr-cent white sugar went TO
the department OF agriculture and asked:
inform mol ric
test Of that sugar which YOU tested for
Senator Smoot. That's the sugar
we tested for Senator Smoot. said the
What did it test under the polar
iScone? is it an S5-per-cent sugsre"
..,r,;a mo: indeed. replied the chemist.
ing 10 figures OF the bottles label
What Test Disclosed.
The figures showed that the sugar had
tested. not 50 per cent. as the senate
had been led TO believe. but a fraction
under rs per cent,
IT was. in fact, a better and purcr
sugar than most people ever used until
within recent years: perfectly wholesome.
and today preferred by many people 10
But, AS horrible example of s,upentI-
Gus frauds. which might be worked if |
nc color test were removed from the
wholesome Scotch sugar became the ex-
cuse for willing servitors of the trust 10
vote to keep the Dutch standard in the
lawi
That is the sort of argument" that
WAS made 20 sustain the trust sugar
schedule.
I, gave the trusts friends a pretext
for opposing the Bristow amendment
And so. after discussion which lasted
The better part of p week. the trust s |
sugar schcdule-Dutch standard and all
was adouted. The Republican .'insur-
cent senators voted against It,
NS consumer whose cost OF living
is directly involved in that schedule
how do YOU like to see burden OF
$4,000. 900 of taxes per annum imposed
ON such prcteXts and MISREPRESENTATION
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