Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-14
Congressman Rainey Tells
Why President is
Lenient.
OTHERS ARE SCORED
Declares Corporation Has Con-
trolled Republican Party
for Years.

Washington, April I'm delivering
can Sugar Refining company in the
house of representatives today Repre-
sentative Rainey of Illinois did no.
hesitate to make bold suggestions con
corning that most corrupt and rotteI
trust ever created by the protective
tariff system and President Taft, At
torney General Wickersham and Henry
w. Taft, brother OF the president
Mr.. Rainey referred to President
Taft's message sent to congress about
q year ago in which the president ad.
vised against an investigation of the
sugar frauds by congress for the rea
son that ''it might, by giving immunity
and otherwise, prove an embarrass-
ment in securing conviction of the
guilty parties"
Reviews History.
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, MIR.
Rainey said:
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
opening for many Of them. They
have, however, succeeded through
their control of the republican party,
in bringing about this most delightful
arrangement:
wickersham Trust Lawyer.
''The attorney general of the United
States was until his appointment a
sugar trust attorney, familiar with the
methods of the sugar trust, exhibiting
even now a remarkable symsethy 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
attorney generals Office.
The brother of the president of the
United States is one of the attorneys
for the sugar trust.
a. E. Parsons. the father of the ex-
president of the New York county re-
publican committee, is under indict-
the law in Philadelphia.
And the president of the United
States has advised against a congress
sional investigation of the sugar trust
for the reason that 1t might prove en-
barrassing
q VIII Soon BE Free.
'The last of the frauds committed
by the sugar trust occurred on the
goth day of November, 1907. The stat
ute of limitations in running every day
and will soon become a complete bar
against any criminal prosecution that
may be brought. The republican party
is charged with the administration Of
affairs in this house. Two hundred
and nineteen republican members sit
on the other side of this chamber, and
since the message of the president
of the United States was read In this
house, not one of them has lifted his
voice against the sugar trust or in
favor of an investigation by congress"
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
through political parties and corrupted
men ''as no other law defying corpora
ton has ever been able to do
Has Ruled Party II Years.
For IA years, through its almost
absolute management and control of
the republican party" declared MI.
Rainey, 'the sugar trust has been able
to wreck great financial institutions;
it has been able to shape tariff sched-
ules, through tariff schedules framed
to suit its purposes, it has been able
to steal indirectly from the people;
and, by bribing republican officials, it
has been able to steal directly from
the treasury of the United States un
told millions of dollars
Going into the details of tariff legis-
lation Mr.. Rainey declared that the
sugar trust had employed the methods
of the Standard Oil monopoly in at
tempting to control the production of |
sugar far beyond the boundaries of
the United States
Coming down to the building of the |
Pennsylvania Sugar refinery in Pnila- |
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
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