| Show ftr TRUTH ABOUT THE TARIFF Henry O Haveme ers statement bc 1 fore the Industrial commission recalls an old proverb about the chance for nonest men when thieves full out i Mr Havemeyer president of the f sugar trust says the tariff is the mother of trusts but in his particular t par-ticular case It has proved a sort of stepmother He says the import tax l on sugar takes JJM000000 out of the r consumers pockets and enriches the canegrowers of Louisiana Hawaii and L the beet tanners of the country to that extent All of which is doubtless truer true-r but it is a new thing to have a trust f president tell truths of that kind From his tone one might think the sugar trust magnate was a great philanthropist phil-anthropist grieved by the burdens thus thrust upon the poor people He t modestly disclaims any such intent and If one reads between the lines it is t easy to see that his disclaimer is justified < justi-fied What the trust really wants is a tariff on refined sugar which comes Into competition with its product and the Tree entry of the raw sugar With a pleasant arrangement of that sort in Ii effect Mr Havemeyer could compel the cane owcrs to sell at his own figure he could drive the beet factories out of business and then the way If would be open for a monopoly after his own heart On one point however all the trusts k and all the protected interests are harmonious They are opposed to an c income tax or any other direct tax that ri would make aggregated wealth pay its I lull share of the cost of government Any tariff arrangement is betters than jucb a tax becaiise the revenue from I tariff under its present benign schedule comes altogether from the consumer and producer of small means Great is the Republican tariff |
