The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-28
Joseph F. Smith of Mormon Church Is Made
One Of Defendants in the Action, Also
the Amalgamated Sugar Company
Of Ogden===High Finance
Is Charged

withdraw from all connections there
with.
That the court grant such general
relief rs may be proper by way of
Injunction. receiyershlp OF otherwise
History of Combine.
The criminal sugar combine. the pc
ton sets forth, was The sugar rein
cries company, which was formed
IN August. 1887. under the lead OF
II o. Havemeyer and embraced com
penies which together carried on 80
per cent of the sugar trade in inter
state and foreign trade of the country.
Within two years of the formation
Of the original company, it is charS
ed, tho combination closed twelve re-
tineries. In 1889, it obtained the In
dependent California company. lcav
ing outside the combination only the
four Philadelphia concernS The
state OF New York attacked the ar
rangement in Il suit TO dissolve the
North Sugar Refining company. which
was one of the parties TO the agree
Dlent and the courts held the COM
6ination to be Illegal
Thcreupon, the present American
Sugar Refining company was formed
In January. 1891, and continued the
business of the combine.
From 1892 10 1900, it is said. indie
pendent refinartcs started up and
others tried To- One company built
a plant in Baltimore Before it could
operate. the American company
bought its capital stock and never
allowed 1t to operate its refinery. The
same thing happened to the United
States refinery, il is said, in 1896,
when 1t built plant at Camden, n
j.
The suppression OF the Peunsvl-
Nania Sugar e. Refining company.
which was brought OUT In a suit
against the American company some
years ago, is also referred to. The
California Il Hawaii Sugar company.
controlled by Hawaii planters. was nut
out OF business. it is alleged, by
means OF an agreement whereby the
combine was 10 pay 100000 a year
lor three years. provided it retired
from the field
Co-operated With GToeers.
The government charges that the
American has obtained unfair advant-
age over competitors by obtaining
money on imports by custom frauds.
as was brought out in the govern.
ments recent suits. by receiving re.
oales from railroads and by working
In harmony with wholesale grocers'
associations throughout the country
and keeping up the price of sugar.
A considerable portion of the pcti.
ton is devoted To the acquisition by
the combine Of the beet sugar plants
when that industry began to grow
formidable, In 1901 all the com.
panies except the Spreckels company.
which was beet sugar concern. were
Independent The American IL is
charged, began its campaign by send
ing into the middle west large guam
titles OF sugar on which it had OBJ
tanned rebates and free storage dur
ing the summer. In the fall which is
when the beet sugar companies began
10 sell their products. the American
is said 10 have put It's prices TO less
than cost. iDjursnG the business OF
the beet sugar companies. In 1902,
having weakened and discouraged
these companies. the petition recites,
the American company began to buy
them In, in some cases eXacting a
tribute for all sugar sold by such
companies. The American Beet Su-
gar company 1t is charged. was forced
to pay quarter Of a cent per pound
on all sugar It sold
At present. according to the peti.
ton, the American company and Its
subsidiaries control - per cent of the
total output of refined sugar In the
country. which Is said to be enough
to permit it absolutely 10 control
prices after meeting a certain amount
OF competition.
AmaIeamated Sugar Named
The defendants are the American
Sugar Refining company. its directors
and officers. aud all cane and beet
sugar companies in which 1t holds
stock or over which IL has control by
the holding OF stock In them by COM
panies which in turn are controlled
by the American. The companies
made defendant, In addition to the
American Sugar Refining company.
are The American Sugar Refining com
pany OF New York, the Franklin Sugar
Refining company Of Philadelphia.
ENDltNhtlb GNuE dl company VI
Philadelphia, Western Sugar Refining
company of San Francisco. California
Sugar Refinery of San Francisco. Ma
tional Sugar Refining company OF
New Jersey. National Sugar Refining
company OF New York, New York Su-
gar Refining company. MollenhauCr
Sugar Refining company OF Brooklyn,
W. ]. McCahan Sugar Refining com
pany of Philadelphia, Cuban-American
Sugar company OF New York. Colonial
Sugar company of New York. Ala
media Su9ar company of San Francis
co. Unicn Sugar company Of San Fran
cisco. Spreckels Sugar company OF
San Francisco. Utah-Idaho Sugar com
pany Of Salt Lake City. Amalgamated
Sugar company OF ogden. Utah; Lew
iston Sugar company OF Lewiston, Ida
ho; Great Western Sugar company OF
Jersey City n j.; Sterling Sugar com
pany OF Denver, Morgan County Con-
struction company OF Denver. Billing
Sugar company OF Billings. Mont:
Sccttebluff Sugar company Of Denver
Mlchllan Sugar company OF Saginaw,