Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-11
gHAvvAitAN ASSOCIATION
surs MUCH PUBLICITY
Empieys pr.wlns $1,000 Per Month
Salary Admits >4ooy6oo Per Year Has
Been Used in Fighting Tariff Rsdue-
tien-Sprsss Dursaus Maintained q
ENsrmeus Expenditure.

SD.-o"-0-
I Royal D. Mead. OF the Hawaiian
lsusar Planters Association. said he
received . salary Of $1,000 month for
! ais work in Washington. His efforts.
Ihe said, were confined to gathering
and distributing sugar statistics and
be thought $4,000 would cover his an
sociated with the domestic sugar pro-
aucers' organization which has di-
Lrsotsd the sugar tariff publicity cam
leaisn in Washington. In May. he said,
no and Sidney NJ. Ballou terminated a
1880 contract for publicity work, by
the press service bureau of which E.
w. Mayo was head.
Mead produced a detailed account of
AL his receipts and expenditures in
/ Washington. He had received $4,000
from the Hawaiian Sugar Association
and had spent $5.54s.16 up to last
night.
\ Published 10 Summoned.
Y Upon the demand Of Senator Gronna
tho committee summoned A. 7. Moore,
Ipublisher. and A. NJ. Baker. manager
,f the Courier-News. of Fargo. n. D..
b explain . recent editorial indicat-
ag that Senator 0ronna knew some-
aing Of the use Of money In Washing
pn to influence legislation.
Mead told the committee that after
srnanating the $500 publicity con-
aot with Mayo, the domestic sugar
soducors had retained Mayo at q sal
~ Of 32ee . weak to help run the
1ne pablictty campaign. None Of thu
ycnaH spent for aAvestisins. said Mr.
toal hAA been used to influence the
.afaetal policy Of newspaDeEs. The
GI. hua6Iint spent by the HewStts1
ln1o 4ae - purposes was about
110o51oos6 yer and was raised by as
,noans6nt.: the total being something leSl
khan 81 q ton on the total productions
Idost Of the money, he said, had been
ksed for sugar experiment station
Hawaii and for securing Philippine
aborers.
Tells Of seeilsr PIats."
BY Senator Reed about labor conditions
h Hawaii. Senator Reed wanted to
know II the Hawaiian planters were
hot anxious for q return to the penal
labor system. He read q statement to
khis effect from what he said was a
rsuppressed" report by Daniel J. Keefe
Scormer commissioner Of immigration.
There are about as many gentle
men In Hawaii who favor q return to
hat system - there are gentlemen in
he south who favor q return to slav-
MY" answered the witness.
Senator Reed quoted at length from
he Keefe report on conditions in Ha-
saML Tho witness replied by declar-
ng most Of Mr. Keefe's statements
we're false
The witness told of the preparation
New York Of articles about the
;ugar industry which were put up in
yboiler plate" and sent to newspapers
thruout the country, and of typewrit-
sen feature stories" which he said
sometimes appeared as editorials and
sometimes as dispatches under a New
York date.
"Of course there vas nothing to i'm
,dicate to the reader that these dis
patches were paid for by the Hawaiian
sugar plantersT asked Senator Walsh.
"So. sir" said Mr.. Ballou.
Sought to Influence consrsssmsn.
Elmer E. Paxton. of Hawaii, who fol-
lowed Mead, said he came to Washing
ton in March to represent Alexander
Il Baldwin, owners f Hawaiian sugar
plantations worth $27,000,oo0.
Conferences had been held with Other
4 sugar interests, he said, and letters had
Seen sent to the 1900 or 1000 customers
81. his frrn urging them to write te
! t,,eir congressman and senator's and
nrotest against free sugar.