Show the Sugar Trust By J. H. Paul l. The threat of prosecuting the sugar trust is rather The present of that trust are a mere The greater of twenty-five years are expressly authorized by Prior to the McKinley tariff of refined sugar imported into the United States paid a tariff tax of cents per The price of sugar in this country at that time varied from 8 to 10 cents per In sugar sold at from 5 to 8 cents per The McKinley law took 2 cents per pound off refined and the price of sugar all over the United States dropped to an average of G cents per It remains to this day at about this But in American and other sugar retails at about 3 cents per often 2 Utah sugar has sold all along at about 6 Formerly a bounty of 2 cents per pound was paid by the state to the local factories upon all sugar produced in All the and nearly all the larger local sugar stockholders declared at that that the sugar industry could not be started without this that the factories would close if the bounty should be Both statements have now been proved to be without any foundation in fact both were both were and both were thundered from a hundred political platforms by hundreds of protectionist always speakers in those The press was particularly careful to reecho these Now that the bounty has been withdrawn long enough to prove to the stoppage of the sugar factories and the general ruin of were totally mistaken as to as a consequence of Avith-holding this gift of two cents per pound on Utah the public is entitled to an apology and a retraction on the part of all those and their name is legion who made such are they There are that these hundreds of plenty of honest men who these Why say It appears that the United States now consumes billion pounds of sugar The figures indicate a consumption of more than seventy pounds per and our population is supposed to be over eighty On each pound of the trust gets' nearly two cents and it charges two cents more for every pound it sells in It sells to Americans at five and to Englishmen at Jess than three cents per Two cents per clear gift- on each of billion pounds means a yearly gift of the people to the sugar trust of over one hundred million or say one billion dollars in every ten Every cent of this billion dollars is extorted from the and the merchants are not even permitted to make a living profit on handling In return for this vast charity from every poor family in the land to one of the richest organizations the world has ever it has now come to light that during the past two decades at this well worn phrase is as true as it is has been likewise earning unknown millions every year the by the following very simple These schemes are truly small and simple when compared with that one whereby per over and above all fair profits have been donated to this trust by the good people who desired to help an The sugar trust now stands practically convicted Bribing political committees to both Seeking to influence United States Senators by stock tips and other financial Accepting rebates in violation the Interstate Commerce Stealing from the United States government through weighing Conspiracy to ruin dent Violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Using short Blacklisting who handle independent r Importing cheap contract e lab Violating factory and health protected the thief all this Who are the guilty officials who enabled it to carry on this' wholesale violation of How far do the lawless ramifications of this defiant thief How much money has it paid for political Who got the Do not guileless that the Herald-Republican asked the pertinent questions just quoted from the Sunday Par from After months of silence the defender of monopoly finally finds its voice this subject and emits the following public Make Them Pay It Gentral Wicker-sham declares he will attempt to collect from the sugar trust every dollar that trust is proved to have fraudulently escaped paying to the custom And to that resolution the entire nation will seems perfectly certain the employees of the trust and the employees of the government can be The mass of evidence that has been secured against them is so convincing that there is little doubt many criminals will have to go to fact cannot be established without the basic conclusion that the trust has escaped payment of money due the And since the trust is the collection of that withheld cash should be by no means a difficult Of course trust is Why shouldn't it be The Herald-Republican and its predecessors' were among the loudest shouters in favor of and immunity to this and other tariff-fostered Schedule E shows a necessary article which is used to the extent of probably five hundred million dollars a year on which the duty was This necessary article is refined The duty K from to r a hundred so if the consumer got entire benefit of reduction he would have to eat an even ton of sugar to save a as a matter of fact of granulated sugar was higher in than when the bill was In event the majority simply saw to it that the monopoly was not And by a pretense that they would lessen the cost of sugar to the they still served the interest of the trust by a ridiculous and complex sugar burdened with technical terms and that no one but a trust and a custom house official can But are not the now at to can they be successfully fooled once more by the tricks of their representatives in |