The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-01
The Price of Sugar.

| Editor hefolmef.
The millions of householders and other'
in the United States who have had to buy
sugar in the last few months have noticed
| that they have had to pay ) cents pei
pound for necessity that usually has SOLD
| for about 6 cents. The annual consumption
is about So per head and is an item OF con
siderable consequence IN the aggregate
| The reason for this increase in the price Of
sugar as given out by the sugar trust IS a
shortage in the beet sugar crop NICER
many. As none of this prospective German
crop had been bought by the sugar trust
at the time of the rise in price to the con
sumner, and as the sugar that the trust has
| been selling at price that means cents
per pound to the consumer was manutaet-
ured from the same crop that retalled pre-
viously Mt & cents some other explanation
is more plausible, for instance, the S3,oO0,-
900 in customs duties which they stole from
the government by means OF false weights
and doctored scales at the port OF New
York, and the expense or some slght IN
vestigations by congress ms penalty lot
dishonesty and theft on the part OF the
sugar trust is not paid by them but ny you
and me, the consumer. High tarlHs ana
special privileges granted by, the govern
ment and fines imposed by the courts Tor
same way-the consumer pays.
IL the sugar trust should raise the price
If sugar arbitrarily to 10 cents per pound
or more we could not help ourselves, be.
cause it is a monopoly, and monopoly OF
the worst kind.
You NAV ask why it exists and why no
effort has been made to break It! IL mas
reached its present. position OF defiance TO
the hubble interests, and where it can ex-
nIoit the people to its hearts content,
PRINCIPALLY on account of tariff OF l'9o
cents Der pound on raw and refined sugar;
and a certain Joker in the tariff law called
the Dutch standard. Also because the
marty in power has been an accessory be
fore the fact, by its policy OF hlgh protec-
ton and special privileges to mon,opoiles,
All of the big trusts and monopoles are
included in this Indictment. ,r
By the means of their high ana prefer.
entail tariffs the consumer Is maze 10 pay
all the expenses OF the natiohal eoseiri
ment and the privileged class to receive
Whatever thev pay out in high tariffs,
which benefit themselves in making 1t pos
sible TO maintain monopoly, they pro
coed to collect from the public with addi-
lions for their own beneht.
The marty in power, which has been the
renub NIB party for the last 20 years, has
no desire to change this order OF things or
re, the people from extortion because
bia business and the trusts furnish their
sia sin Of war, money, to conduct Their la
campaigns against the interests OF the
p' The late E. H. Hartman admitted on IN
the witness stand that he raised a funa a., OF
So5O 600 for the Roosevelt campaign. Inc
Taft administration has not made PUBIC
tbe sources from which it received its cam
naipn funds and it may never be known,
P Ps It has been rmored that the Morgan
!; I interests raised large fund, and that they
axnected large returns on their lnyestmens
I nv exploiting Alaska, and that this END
CLAWS and Pinchot, who we we're summarily
by President Taft.
The price of sugar, the price OF WOODEN,
the price of oil, the price OF coal the price
Of Of; express rates, the, price OF exploiting
tbe whole people for the benefit OF swollen
fortunes for is the price of the disintegratlon
If Of there the republican party. T; A. Howe
" Newfane, Vt, Nov. q, 1911.