The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-04-22
ATTY. GENERAL
AND SUGAR TRUST
Rainey of Illinois Draws Startling
Conclusions Concerning the
Philippine Lands.

April I, Representative Raincy of Illi-
nois referred very pointedly to the al
legged connection of Attorney General
Wickersham with the trust and the de-
cision of that official concerning the
recent purchase by the Havemeyers of
an estate from the Philippine friars
land. The alleged driving out of the
Spreckels from Hawaii was also men.
toned, as reported by the Associated
Press.
Going into details of tariff legisla-
ton, Mr.. Rainey declared that the
sugar trust had employed the methods
| of the ''Standard Oil monopoly in
attempting to control the production of
| sugar far beyond the boundaries of the
| United States BY manipulating legis-
lation, he said, they had crushed the
Spreckels company and possessed them
selves of the sugar supply of Hawaii.
AL the time, he said, the trust was con-
tributing to the Republican campaign
fund, and when it deemed advisable it
gave to the Democratic party. Cuban
annexation or independence, he said, de-
pended upon the interests of the trust
in exploiting the raw sugar of that is
| w uth pOsts VI Tie lluob
could be served best by the annexation
of Cuba, he declared revolution would
be started in that island. The free ad-
mission of 100000 tons of Philippine
sugar, he insisted, was but move to
help swell the Golfers of the sugar mo-
nopoly.
Coming down to the building of the
PENNSYLVANIA sugar refinery in Phila-
delphia in 1908 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 completion,
drifted into the control of the trust.
Being sued by the Pennsylvania Sugar
Refining Company, he said, it became
necessary for the trust to engage addi-
, tional counsel, and they turned to the
firm of Strong & Cadwalader, "one of
those important New York city legal
firms to which great corporations ap
peal for aid when they propose to VIC
late the laws of the land or when they
have violated the laws If the land.
Citing the names of this firm as in
/ GLIDING those of George w. Wicker
sham and Henry w. Taft, he again
gave the list of the firm after Presi
/, dent Taft's inauguration, when Mr.
Wickersham had become attorney-gen
eral and Henry w. Taft had beer
moved up from fourth to second place
in the list of members.
When the case of the Pennsylvania
{ Sugar Refining Company against the
trust came up on March 20, 1908, il
the circuit court for the southern dis
trict of New York, the name of Henri.
w. Taft, he said, appeared as counse
for the sugar trust
I - &c
closes the fact that in the hour o
: their greatest stress the managers o
this most infamous of all corporation
were as resourceful as ever. Matter
!. had been so arranged that sugar trus
lawyer became attorney-general of tn
United States and the brother of tn
:, President of the United States becam
f openly one of the attorneys for tn
d sugar trust
D. He was aware, he said, that the attoI
S general had had read into the Con
a gressional Record a statement denyln
re that he had been an attorney for tn
is sugar trust.
If 1'It may be that the attorney genera
% was not consulted in this suit, and
If NAV be that he did not render an
re- service in connection with it, sal
10 Mr.. Rainey. ''But the attorney-geners
10 has not vet stated how the enormou
% fee the firm of Strong & Cadwalade
- received was divided. Did the attorney
general refuse to accept any portion q
"A it? The country would like to know
He neglected in his letter to, state thf
. the partner to whom he refers, the men
- Der of the firm of Strong g. Cadwalade
:. who was active in the defense of til
q American Sugar Refining Company
~ these cases, was the brother of I'll
u President of the United States.
u 81 submit that the attorney-gener'
:, ought not to seek to avoid even a
'u inactive connection with this infamol
Oh trust by throwing the entire burden an
the disgrace of such connection upc
es the brother of the President of Il
id United States.
On ''But," he continued, Con June
ce 1909, the attorney general wrote
ed John S. Wise, United States distri
he attorney for the southern district
o. New York. letter which Mr.. Raint
ry thought should go into the Congre
al sional Record, although already pu
ry lished elsewhere. In this letter M
is Wickersham suggested to Mr.. Wise,
respect to the sugar fraud cases, tn
% ga strong effort will be made tome
row to persuade the President to inte
fere in some way to prevent the ]
dictments.
81 respectfully contend" conclude
Mr.. Rainey, "that the Republican m
jority in this house can not afford
longer delay congressional investig
ton; and the millionaire malefacto
who control the sugar trust and vi
are responsible for the preparation
those gigantic frauds ought 10 be he
mp TO the contempt of the country.
Pittsburg they have learned how
reach the men higher up. They simp
propose immunity TO the men whose co
vieiion Is not important, but who II
only tools In the hands Of the prneiP
malefaetors, and as a result minor ei
officials were few days ago eomli
by scores in Pitisbnrg to the office
the prosecuting attorney aud tell
their stories, duplicating the real eri
mails And the time may not be I
iislent wheE men who pass To- Plt