| Show THE SUGAR It was remarked in this paper over a year ago that all this talk about prosecuting the Sugar Trust is rather What the Trust stole directly from the government was admitted by the Trust's lawyers to ten But what the Trust took from the consumers of by authority of the law was that much every and this was all right it was to an infant The needed the and the people had plenty of money to present to it so they cheered the lawmakers for retaining the sugar tariff of per sack of not content with its the Trust cheated the by a system of false weighing of imported raw At last the theft was a long trial the Trust got off by paying back of the stolen money and as a One a Trust a mere subordinate employee was sent to But-none of the men was brought to Since then a great brag and bluster has been made by the apologists for and high tariffs about the successful prosecution of the of great while all the Trust officials have led the in which the multitudes have wildly But the cost of living continued io go In vain did the show how much the tariff had been In vain did the department of agriculture show the people how to cook inferior and In vain did the American Protective Tariff League prepare speeches for congressmen to showing how much better off the people are today than The people knew and began to demand Slowly the facts are coming Everywhere those who voted with Senator Aldrich for high protection are being rebuked by their own party or defeated by their Only one protection stronghold seemed safe the Sugar Trust and its famous protection by Senators Smoot and from to per and always referred to by them as the model of protected Now the smoke is lifting from this battlefield also this favorite field on which every protectionist loves to take his stand and ask the what are you going to do about The people can now see just what was done to this favored from the five following facts No one knows how much the Sugar Trust has stolen from the The thefts began in They have probably totalled somewhere between and March won his test civil suit before a New York and a verdict of was This which interest items brought up to was the only penalty ever exacted from the Trust for thefts of many millions which the attorney-general described as of The penalty was based on the value of the few packages cited in the test John G. John B. James R. Sheffield and Henry B. the able counsel for the Sugar in advising it to settle the wrote that if the government's tion of law and fact were correct their client could be made to pay a month the government recommended to the attorney-general the settlement of the suit for and the He said in believe that the payment was complete restitution from the beginning of the operation of the tariff on sugar to the discovery of the fraud in Yet the eminent counsel cited above admitted that of the Elder from 1901 up the of and that making a total of about would have arisen from at the same refinery from 1894 to 1901 and at the Jersey City Only these two refineries were covered by the The Trust's own lawyers thus figured the actual in the two refineries at in- of There was the penalty they assumed was There were the other There were the of by bogus The government counsel said last in the Heike have been frauds at many other places and in many other and that fraud had been committed even after November the exercise of another It may have been his knowledge of the manifold nature of the thefts that warranted him in estimating at the sums the government might have required of the Is it exemplary justice to accept a partial restitution of money stolen in two places and only in one way and no at all for the thefts many places and in many the little criminals permitted to go free of the stripes' upon surrendering a small share of their Is it a thieving trust to the servants of its villainy while the men who profited by the thefts walk Tweed's defiant question what are you going to do about What will the people most people in Utah it's different elsewhere are going to vote for more of They don't seem to have had enough of but sweet they will conclude that even they have had |
