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Show THE TRUST AGAINST CLAUS. Hut Sprrekles Declares That lie Will Not Join While ou Earth He le Not Afraid. PnXdsMtraiA, Pa., March 14. A reporter talked with Clans Spreckles about he ab-Borjition ab-Borjition of the Frunklin refinery by the Sugar Su-gar Host "If the rumor proves true," ' Spreckles said, "It means that all the sugar trade interests of this country are combined auuiust me. This, the public believes, will narrow the competition down to its lowest limit, but there never was a greater mistake made by tbe cousumers. The trust, eveu if it owned overy refinery in the land and had not the opposition which will come from the factories, would meet with the bitterest kind of comprtltiou from foreign countries. The McKitiley tariff bill provides for this, and a sugar monopoly is as impossible as are most of tbo other monopolies talked of and written about so frequently." "Will you ever join the trust?" askud tbe reporter. "Not while I'm on earth," be replied. "1 don't favor trust, aud never did. My refinery re-finery is now sud always will be conducted independently of every other interest." |