Gilpin observer., 1913-06-26

ver;.ser for Pure Recalling" notices.
1t is only right that Lie men Sund
women who read these subsidized
papers should know the aru.h-shOuld I'd
know that the editors have bar.ered
their honor for the sugar trusts
dirty dollars.
Separate Goats
From the Sheep.
The New York World suggested the
other day that the senate committee
make an effort to secure a complete
list of the papers which had been
reached" by the sugar agents. The
World argued that DIT was unfair to
have this insufferable stigma attach
ed to all newspapers and that the
goats should be separated from the
sheep.
Unfortunately, this seems to be i'm
possible. Up to date the senate conn
mittee has secured only small por-
tion of the trusts correspondence,
and it is probable that the remand
er has been destroyed.
Sugar" Oxnard testified that on
the first of each year, he burned all
the letters and other records con-
nected with his work as a lobbyist.
1t also developed that other lobby
lists were not required to account
for money entrusted to them.
So, many chapters of this story of
corruption will never be set down
in the records of the natiofal con-
gress and many proud names will be
saved from disgrace, but enough has
been revealed to arouse the Ameri-
can people and to insure the wilping
out of the sugar lobby and the de-
struo.ion of the sugar trust.
"Dying"
Industry Active.
The sugar trusts representatives
continue their calamity howling con-
cernsng the destruction of the Am
erican sugar industry, but their in
sincerity is revealed in many con-
vincing and at times, amusing ways.
For example, Oxnard, while on the
ing committee, was forced to admit
that he had just invested a million
dollars in a sugar factory in Louis
iana and when asked why he had
put so large sum in a doomed"
industry, he lamely replied that he
felt obliged to do So.
Advices from Colorado and other
beet sugar states are equally reas-
surfing. The company which controls
the factory at Sugar City announced
the other day that it had no more
$3.50 beet land for sale. Hereafter
cur land will be held at $3.50 an
acre. This in the face of the al
most certain enactment of free-sug-
ar bill.
At other points in Colorado costly
and extensive improvements in the
sugar factories are being made. o.
course, the sugar companies declare
in their public statements that these
Investments will be total losses in
case the Underwood bill passes, but
We all knew tn. til nc ay would
never be spent ie tte sugar mag
mates did not telieve thcJ couil com
pete with the 81 gee Ter of The
world.
A Wholesalers
Testimony.
Last night l had long converse
ton with one of the most promln-
ent wholesale grocers of Colorado. A
man whose name is almost house
hold word throughout the state. For
obvious reasons. he said, Il cannot
afford to antagonize the sugar in
terests, but i am-with you in your
fight for free sugar.
AT one time l wanted to go into
the sugar business, but l was order
ed to stay out. l made careful
study of the cost of making beet sug-
ar. and in my Judgment an up-to-
date factory in Colorado can pro.nce
sugar for $2.75 per hundred.
with the worlds price of refined
sugar ranging from 1920 to $3.50. we
can hold our own against all COM
ers.
Free sugar will make 1t impos-
stble for the trust to dominate the
beet sugar situation and will lead to
the rapid and permanent expansion