Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — The People and the Sugar Frauds. [ARTICLE]

The People and the Sugar Frauds.

The public is informed that there is unanimous agreement among the powers at Washington to trace the sugar frauds to their source. While there is complete confidence that the administration means to do its full duty, there is some concern about the individual instruments Intrusted with the actual Job. The American people will not be satisfied with the proceedings if they merely go to the extent of putting sugar trust directors in the penitentiary. There is a bigger achievement to be scored—the cleaning out of a loathsome corruption in the federal public service. To find out the individuals guilty of statutory crime, whether in the service of the sugar trust or of the govern ment or both; to strike off the public, payrolls every man who helped the sugar trust’s cheating or hindered the exposure of the sugar trust and to fix all blame for the wholesale corruption of the American revenue service, no matter upon whom it may fall or what public idols it may shatter, will be the task to test supremely the skill and courage of the prosecuting authorities. Equally must this prosecution be a sore trial of the ability of the country to bear up stoutly and hopefully under a crushing blow to national honor and national ideals.