Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1911 — Sugar Trust Tactics. [ARTICLE]

Sugar Trust Tactics.

Have you noticed how the price of sugar has been creeping up since Taft vetoed the free list bill? A few weeks ago you got about 18 pounds for a dollar, while now you only get 12, and the trust is still boosting it. About a dozen years ago we used to get 24 pounds of granulated sugar in Rensselaer for one "plunk,” but the big sugar trust wasn’t satisfied, and it has been grasping for more and more all the time, that its stockholders might revel in more excesses to which the idle rich are so prone. The tariff-made millioniares are increasing at a rapid rate at the expense of the people who must buy the necessaries of life at whatever price the trusts please to make them.