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Show THE SUGAR TRUST'S BLUFF. Its Action Probably Taken to Influence Legislation. Washington, Dec 1. Tlio sugar Inn1 says that becatiso sugar is lndnngorof going on tlio f rco list and becsuso It tho trust Is sustaining great losses, It must dlschnrgo nil nrmy of laborers nnd Indefinitely In-definitely close tho rcllnorlcs. Prcsidon1 llaveinoycr tnlks about his poor working, men, nnd pretends to bemoan their hard fate And theso poorworkingmen, who nro they? They constitute the cheapest labor tlio triut could pick up In F.uropo; Imported Slavs paid ten cents nu hour, eighty cents a day, and forced to labor In n dcnth-ladcn atmnsphoie beaten to 125 or 150 degrees. It is upon the misery of these half-paid laborers that the trust threatens the Senate, demanding thai sugar bo left as it stands in the Gorman bill. It Is well alio (O note that tho sugar trust is a profitable Institution. Tlio sentlcmen composing it, Have-nicye Have-nicye r,Searlcs,Cinus Bprrckcls and Mat-thlefscn Mat-thlefscn nro not In tho rcllnlng business for their health nor for pleasure Tlicy want money, and a fabulous amount o' it; othcrwiso they will refuse to continue con-tinue In tho business. Before Sprockets look $25,000,000 in now stock the trust's capital nmouiited to twice that sum Thirty-one millions, or three-fifths of tlio Block, was then controlled by Huvcmcyer and Matthicsseu, nccordin to oath mado by them beforo the Supremo Sup-remo court of Now York. Slticothe trust wns formed tho sugar barons hnobccomo millionaires many times over. According to u Wall elrcet paper Havcuioycr receives a salary half as much again ns President Olevehud, or $75,000 annually, for being president of the monopoly, and (25,000 more as a trustee, $100,000 n jear In all Quito n princely salary Theodore Havcmeyer is rated nt (7i,C00 for serving nelco president and trustee. Scarlcs, treasurer and trustee, gets tho samo amount. Trustees F. O. Matthicatcn, Joseph B Thomas n.id William Dick, get tho niunillcont sum of f5,000 ns trustees. Tho total amount of salaries paid by tlio trust to its principal nlllcers, therefore, there-fore, Is $325,000, an average otnvue than toO,0G0 per mnti Tlio trust pajs Its employees eighty cents a day Nevertheless, Never-theless, competition and tbrentenid tariff legislation miiko it necessary to suspend operations for an Indefinite period. Indeed llavemejer must bo deeply concerned an to the welfare of his laborers, who nre turned like shorn lambs Into tho bramble patch. Congress may not be as green as it lookii, and the trust's Italian hand may fail In the execution exe-cution of its mission. 7'oafo Ilia Je, ... |