Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-15
SUGAR TRUST RUNS
F. C. 0. P, SAYS RAINEY
President, Attorney General and
Taft'S Brother Scored by
Representative
HlGHER-UPS ARE PROTECTED
| Administration Chiefs CIasSed as
Former Servants of Cor
rupt Monopoly
ARE PROTECTED
CONTINUED from pnre one1

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, ana
since the message of the president OF
the United States was read in TINS
house not one of them has lifted his
voice against the sugar trust or in IA
vor of an investigation by congress.
In a carefully prepared speech Mr.
Rainey proceeded to review many Incl
dents in the career of the sugar trust
which he declared reached out through
political parties and corrupted men as
no other law defying corporation has
ever been able to do.
For fourteen years, through its al
most absolute management and control
of the Republican party declared Mr.
Rainey, "the sugar trust has been aple
to wreck great financial institutions
it has been able to shape tariH scheu-
ules: through tariff schedules framed
to suit its purposes, it has been aDle 10
steal indirectly from the people; ana
bv bribing Republican officials, 1t mas
been able to steal directly from the
treasury of the United states untold
millions of dollars
THIEVES CRUISE AND DRIVE
"And these thieves" he said, spend
this season of the year cruising in the
Mediterranean or at fashionable Flori-
da hotels watching automobiles break
records along the beach, still represent
inc themselves to be honest men. The
country is in debt, and the men who
have contributed millions to the Re
publican campaign fund are, under a
Republican administration, permitted
to now reimburse themselves by steal
ing from the treasury of the United
States"
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 or
sugar far beyond the boundaries of the
United States. BY manipulating legis-
lation he said they had crushed the
Spreckels company and possessed
themselves of the sugar supply OF
Hawaii. All the time, he said, the
trust was contributing to the Repuo-
lican campaign fund, and when deemed
advisable it gave to the Democratic
party. Cuban annexation or lnde-
pendence, he said, depended upon the
interests of the trust in exploiting the
raw sugar of that island. When the
nurposes Of the trust could be served
! best by the annexation of Cuba he de-
! clared a revolution would be started in
! that island. The free admission OF
! 300 600 tons of Philippine sugar, he IN
| sisted was but a move to help swell
the Golfers of the sugar monopoly.
L respectfully contend" concluded
Mr.. Rainey, that the Republican ma
iority in this house cannot afford to
longer delay a congressional inVestiga-
tion, 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
The attorney general Of the United
States commences his prosecutions and
ends them with unimportant officials
and S1S a week checkers, and the real
persons guilty of the most colossal
fraud in the history Of our government
are permitted to go about without pun
ishment, without exposure, still pos
ing as honest men, still willing and still
able to contribute to the campaign
funds of the Republican party"
Rising to discuss Mr.. Raineys refer
ence TO John f. Parsons, representa-
tive Parsons said:
You allude to John +. Parsons, who,
l am proud TO say, is my father He
did not plead the statute Of limitations.
If he has committed any crime, he will
take the consequences like a man."
Mr. Parsons said II. w. Taft was not
at this time employed by the American
Sugar Refining company, and had hao
nothing to do with the present criminal
prosecutions Of sugar trust officials.
Mr.. Parsons then made an eXplana-
ton Of his own connection with the
sugar trust He did so, he said be-
cause the public might infer from the
remarks of Mr., Rainey that he had
used his position as chairman of the
Republican committee of New York
state to aid the sugar company, or to
prevent prosecution of any member oi
/ his own family.
Mr. Parsons entered a sweeping de-
nial of charges of this nature. He also
denied that the American Sugar Rein
/ ing company, or any of its officials, hac
! ever aided him in politics, except" he
added, "such aid as may have come
! ero,,, NV father"