The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27
IS 81 n c { TELLS
OF o.: Big zig SUGAR WAR
Magnates i'll East and
Nest Fight Business
Battle.
ENDS IN CONSOLIDATION
House Committee Hears HON
Alonarohs OF Industry
Joined Forces.

Washinstcn. JUNG as.-petailS &c 3
great sugar deal in the early nine
ties between Clause Snveckels. in the
West and Henry O. Haremeyer in
the East resulting in an alliance be-
tween those two sugar sovereg ns
We're related to-day to the sugar Trust
lnveSugating Committee OF the House
by ohm D. Sprcckels, son OF tile sugar
masna;e and president of the West 4
ern sugar Refining Company, OF san
Francisco
When Clause Spreckels met Henry
Q. Havemeyer in that old sugar war
asked Representative Mann. Of the
witness. at was a contest OF Greek
against Greek. was it not?
1T certainly was fight"
Your father was a mastcrfui man
in the sugar industry. was he notr
He was To the Pacific coast what
Henry o. Havemeycr was to tile. At
lantic, wasn't he, a monarch over the
sugar industry?"
lin lawful way. he was said
Mr. Spreckels. I'VE always aim 10
carry on orr business in lawful man
ner."
Describes sugar Wnr.
MIR. Sprcckcls then described how,
A during the sugar war. his father in
vaded the Eastern territory and erect
4
adelpha. That brought about the
elimination of the fight.
What was the first of those two
masters 10 throw up his hands?" Mr..
Madison resumed. -
Il think il was Havemeycr," said
Mr. Spreckcls. when we entered
the East III that lig..t, of course; both
my father and AIR Havemeyer realized
that they We're losing money. They
came together and concluded that srich
ta fight was OF no use. II resulted in
consolidation Of the plants in the East
md the Formation OF the Western
Sugar Refining Company in California,
which took over the American Sugar
RchninG Company plant and our plant
there.
. The American plant in the Wes,
was closed down. Each side took a
half interest in the new company. In
the Fast the entire Philadelphia
TO the American Sugar Refining Com
pany. That was think. In lS92H
( "After that there was never any
competition between Spreckels and
Havemerer, was there?" Mr. Madison
inquired H
mo, but there has since heen plenty
of other competition. III
HHa ME-. s1i'EeckelS also described now Mt.
1iavcmeycr became associated with
them in 1897 in the spreckels beet
Sugar Company in the erection OF the
largest beet sugar plant in the world.
M lie further related the history of an
agreement in 1903 between the Vest
r,n sugar Refining Company with a
rival concern the California H. waiian
Sugar Company whereby the plant OF
the latter was leased by the former
and shut down FOR three years Event
nailr 1t was turned hack to Tie orig
inal owners and Is again a competitors
This transaction. Mr.. Spreckels said
he was advised hy counsel, was no,
a violation Of the sherman ANTITRUST
law. tI
The witness declared that in his
opinion free trade in sugar would ruin
the beet sugar business, and lie pro-
4 phcsied thai With the tariff. on sugar
LEI alone, the state of California alone
could furnish enough sugar from beets
70 supply the entire United States and
to warrant the tarih protection OF the
industry. 4
Has No NIonopoly.
In answer 10 questions by Represent
tativc Kinds. Mr.. sprcckcls declared
that the American Sugar Refining