Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

f^ l |l lllderi , lgJ^ll e^eop!e, j A Sample of the Kind of Hoh'-erj Fought by the Bein' j ocratic Party During the Presideniinl Campaign. ;■ Official Figures Prove tin t tli • Public 11a- been Ltohb, d ! ; o: ftSD7,(sHO,oo<> by the Sugar Trust I Dur ug the Last leu Years T rough the ' l Increase of llie Margin of Profit. | Saturday s session of ttie committee of the New ' ? Wk that is'investigating firsts, s'nti.slios ;; , pi epued by AV diet & Gray, wl om the stunr luaguates |j | admit are the highest anthoritiis on the sugnr market ' were pi t in evidence to piove that tin re has been a much | gteatei margin of pr fit between raw and letincd sn>*ar l f' UC( ‘ the “i-gamzatiou of iho trust than there was before l ; Ibe figures, covering periods„f Kveyenisg nor andisub i Bp q»eDt to tne organ iz .lion of the t ust, are ns follows: " |J years pri >r to the oigoiiizatlon. jj> O’jce < f refined sugar per pou ul 06772 ' ( jj 1 rice of raw sugar »er p< uud 05819 ( d. Wargiu i f profit per po«:::d 00853 - 1 g tion. ‘ ( ;; Prce ot refined sugar per p,ouud 05971 Trice of raw sugar per jaurui ’’’] [04961 : |fe Maig nos profit per point J 01010 Increased margin of profit per pound ot refined c> since the trust was formed 00157 : : 1 , 1e r ni ; v ° L ; Havemeysr, the p„ ;1• v. (hesugar trust, anil John F. Sear Jes its secretary ai d treasurer, testified under oath al this investigation that 1,500,000 tons of !i> refarpd tira an Dually consumed ia the United States 'l «n« that ti.e snga t: ust control* about 1,200 090 lons of that output. if 1.200,000 tons,the annua! admitted output of the siv-ar 1 trust, io equal to 2,400,00’t.C00 pounds. With an increas- : ;| ed margin of profit of .00157 of cent nu each pound 1 |,s the sugar trust therefore made * eh veai over a:.d ybove ; the old-time, normal profit of sugar ’lefiners, I .00157 of » cent exlrr profit. 1 16.800,000,000 f 12,000,000.000 2,400,000 000 yj 83,768,000 evtra profit per year. | Fo / the fiv « venrs covered by Wnld & Gray’s stntis- S i tics the extra profit 'earned by the trust w-.s, tin refo.-e ' five times $3,768,000, ~r ’ J > Ihe sugar trust has bogn in existence for ten ye.rs 2 < however, and vis an esta lish d faci (hat the margi of l profat between the raw and the refined sugar has h«en ' l ®J e n greater during the past five years than it was duriim I | tlje nveyearsenvered by Willet & Gray’s figures. ! In t: e ,pn years of its life, consequently, ihe su-ar ' ? trust has taken from the people, in the shape of profits $ > ovpr Hnd above n hat used obe made ou refill d Bmmr 2 j moSllor SSnSSoWT?' Li- ™.; ....

I Dissolution of Partnership. The fi m of Thompson & Bro. 13 mutually rlissolvf cl. The debts and credits of the firm will be paid by and to David J. Thompson. Simon P. Thompson. IVIARION L. Spitler. 'David J. Thompson. Cobs for sale, 50 cts. « load, do-. livercd. Phone 1 51. 1 W. H. Churchill.