Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1910 — Government Lawyers Begin Attack on Sugar Trust. [ARTICLE]

Government Lawyers Begin Attack on Sugar Trust.

The department of justice in New York Monday appealed to the United States circuit court to dissolve the sugar trust. The combination is declared a “ruthless monster,” crushing all it could not control. Trust agreements, monopoly, fraud and graft are among the reasons given for asking the dissolution. Of the Havemeyers and others who bult up the trust, the government’s brief declares that as a result of the agreements competition was crushed and “the result to the public was damnified.”

The suit is against the American Sugar Refining Co. and twenty-seven other companies that “either through force or persuasion’’ have been absorbed by it. The operators of the main trust and other companies are made defendants. Among the defendants is Joseph F. Smith, head of the. Mormon church, who is president of the Utah Sugar company. Ex-Gov. Cutler, of Idaho, is also a defendant. The customs frauds are mentioned, saying that the trust officials sought to enrich themselves by “fraudulent and wicked means” through false weighing. The trust is charged with rebating, and the court is asked to abrogate all agreements and contracts made by those engaged in the “unlawful conspiracy.”