Arizona republican., 1911-06-27
SpreCkeFS Tells of Fathers
 Contest With HaVGmeuer HOW PEACE SUCCEEDED
Relations at Present Be tween Sugar Business of the East and the Vest President of Mormon Church Will Testify.

Washington, D. C., June 26.-De- tails of great sugar war in the
 early 90s between Claus Spreckels
 in the west and Henry O. Have meyer in the east, resulting in an alliance between them, were related i today to the sugar trust Investigating 1 committee of the house by John D. | Spreckels. son of the Pacific coast ! sugar magnate and president of the Western Sugar Refining company of ] San Francisco
 When Claus Spreckels met Henry O. Havemeyer in that old sugar war, % | asked Representative Madison. it ! was a contest of Greek against Greek, was it not?'
 It certainly was a fight" was the answer.
 MT. Spreckels then described how, ! during the sugar war, his father in vaded eastern territory and erected a great cane sugar refinery in Phil adelphia. That brought about the culmination of the fight
 Who was the first of those two masters to throw up his hands? 9" MT Madison asked.
 T think it was MT. Havemeyer.- said MT Spreckels When we en- tered the east in the fight, of course both my father and Havemeyer real ized that they were losing money They came to their senses and shortly came together and concluded that such a fight was of no use It resulted in a consolidation of the plants and the formation of the Western Sugar Refining company in California which took over the American Sugar Refining company plant and our plant there
 The American plant in the west was closed down Each side took a half interest in the new company. In the east the entire Philadelphia Spreckels plant was eventually sold company. That. l think, was in 1892"
 After that there was not any competition between Spreckels and Havemeyer. was there?" MT Madi- son inquired.
 No; but there has since been plenty of other competition"
 Mir. Spreckels also described how MT. Havemeyer became associated with them in 1897 in the Spreckels Beet Sugar company in the erection of the largest beet sugar plant in the world. He further related the history Of an agreement in 1903 be- tween the Western Sugar Refining ri Inc, California Hawaiian Sugar company. The plant of the latter was leased by the former and shut down for three years. Eventually it was turned back to the original owners and is again a competitor.
 This transaction. Spreckels said. he was advised by counsel was not violation of the sherman anti trust law. The witness declared that in his opinion free trade in sugar would ruin the beet sugar business. and he prophesied that with the tariff on sugar cane left alone Cali fornia alone could furnish enough sugar from beets to supply the en- tire United States and to warrant the tariff protection on the industry. 1
 
 sentative Kinds, MT. Spreckels said | the American Sugar Refining com pany did not have a monopoly of | the sugar business of the country
 If their motive in coming to Cali ] fornia was to monopolize the sugar business they did not succeed" Mir | Spreckels declared
 Well. the American Sugar Refin- ] ing company having half of your 1 stock, are you conscious of compe- | titiOn with them in Missouri river l territory" asked Mir. Hinds
 "Oh, yes.' was the reply. We | compete with their new Orleans and | New York output in that territory" |
 Does not the American Sugar Re | lining company own half of the l stock of the Western Sugar Refining l, and have a veto power in ] that company"
 No. My brother. my son. our at torney and myself are on the board | of directors and direct the affairs | of that company. They can't veto us or put us out"
 The hearing was enlivened by the { appearance of Joseph r. Smith. pres ident of the Mormon church. and l president of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Refining company. an alliance of the Mormons and the American Sugar Refining company. The head of the Mormon church arrived in company