The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-25
ARbuCKlE BOASTS
HIS INDEPENDENCE
WASTED AND WAN. SUGAR KING
HOLDS HIS OWN WITH TRUST
INVESTIGATION.
TELLS OF HAVEMEYER
DECLARES THAT SUGAR INDUSTRY
rs WORST CONDUCTED OF
ANY LINE OF BUSINESS
IN UNITED STATES.
TELLS OF HAVEMEYER

NEW YORK. July 24--"I never
bent the hinges OF the knee In my
dealings with Havemeyer that thrift
might follow fawning," said John Ar
buckle to-day to Representative Gar
rett and Madison. the subcommittee
of the congressional committee that is
investigating the sugar trust.
The members of the subcommittee
had Journeyed to the veteran mer-
chants summer home near New Paitz
in the Catskils, to take his testimony.
When they arrived at the quaint lit
tie mountain village they learned that
Mr.. Arbuckle had been compelled to
go to bed
Though wan and wasted and prom
ped on pillows. he showed mentally
none of the effects of illness, for with
an alertness that baffled his expert
enced lnquisitors he held his ground
10 the close of Il two-hour examina-
ton that would have severely taxed
the strength of man half his age.
The sugar industry Is the worst
conducted of any line of business in
the United States" declared Mr.. Ar
buckle, There has been more waste
and general devilment than In an~~
<HAS else KNOW
Did you feel at the beginning of
your experience that you were being
oppressed or in any illegittmate way
nterfered with by the American SUI
gar Refining Company" he was
asked.
Surprises Questioners.
Not in the least" he PROMPTLY re-
Piled to the obvious surprise Of his
quesuoners. "A short time before
we mad completed our BROOKLYN re-
hnery Havemeyer called me un by
phone. l agreed to call at his CITY
residence. l had been in his house
only short time when he plumped
at me a proposal to purchase fiftv-
one per cent. of our refinery. ] told
him he could not buy any interest in
our refinery.
IT is fact, Is 1t not, that the
American comuany went into the
sohee business after the failure or
AR. Havemeyer TO buy your refinery ?"
Ihat Is matter of history. 7
was surprised when ! learned tina,
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany had bought the biggest cofree
roasting house at Toledo, Ohio. This
movement signalized the beginning OF
war between us. We both lost hun
dfeds OF thousands of dollars by that
ioolshness. After five Years Have
meyer let up"
And when the war was aeer vour
house had the held in West Virginia
and Ohio practically to yourself. too.
didn't it," w.
That was one of the results
Asked About Havcmeyer.
DO you know OF any facts Mr..
HaVemeyer or of the American Suaar
refining Company that are in viola
tion or the Sherman antitrust lave"
MI HaFemeyer was always ex-
tremely careful not to run foul Of
I the Sherman law" was the reply.
and so have / always BEEN.
Have YOU reason to suspect that
at any time the American company
mad an advantage over YOU through
4 receiving railroad rebates"
AT one time the practice OF rsbet
ing was almost universal with the
\ railroads. but / have no suspicious
I that point at present An even
meaner and more dangerous form oe
rebate is secret rebate arrangement
/ between some rehners probably the
American among them and tina
wholesalers ! suspect it is going
on now"
! Claus A. Spreckels concluded his
/ testimony to day. He repeated his
charges that the labor employed by
I the highly protected beet sugar in
terests of the West is the Japanese
and Hindu