Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — The Administration and the Sugar Trust. [ARTICLE]

The Administration and the Sugar Trust.

Indianapolis Journal, On Monday morning several papers in the East, including the New York Press and the Philadelphia Press, devoted a page to the publieation of the inside facts concerning the surrender of the Democratic administration and the Democratic Senate to the Sugar Trust. If any part of the details is true it is the 1 most amazing and gigantic scandal that ever disgraced an American ad-! ministration. During the campaign jf 1892 it is alleged that the Sugar Trust, whose managers are Democrats, came to Cleveland’s rescue with contributions which aggregated $500,000, receiving in return the | issurance of the party leaders that whatever might be the Democratic

I tariff bill in other respects tne interest of. the sugar monopolists should not be put in peril. A majority of the Democratic leaders in the House seemed not to be mindful of this pledge, and as the result the Wilson bill was passed with sugar on the free list. Then the sugar magnates came to Washington— Havemeyer,a domineering Democrat and other men of wealth and influenee, and brought a tremendous influence upon President Cleveland, who has al way's been in favor of a a duty on sugar. Among those interested in the trust were several of his closest-friends, and some of the trust magnates visited the President. Secretary Carlisle and Secretary Lamont, and got from them the assurance that the administration, recognizing its obligation to the trust, would remedy what the House had done. The President, what ever else may be said of him, proposes to fulfill his -obligations to the Sugar Trust for its contribution of $500,000, as he did—to Van Alen. One evening in February Secretary Carlisle met two members of the Senate finance committee, and, after setting forth the service of the Sugar Trust to the Democratic party, de dared that “it would now be infamous to turn around and strike "down the meh who helped us then.” As he left he gave one of these, members of the finance committee an amendment which he desired. to be submitted for the provision of the Wilson bill. The writer of the expose declares that the amendment is in Mr. Carlisle’s handwriting and is in possession of Senator Voorhees, and is said to be incontestible proof that the first persuasive influence brought to bear upon the Senate for kindly favor to the Sugar Trust came from the administration. This does not mean that the President had any connection with the stock jobbing which caused the common stock >12,000,000, but it does mean that Mr. Cleveland has used his influence to save the trust, which contributed half a million dollars to his campaign fund, from the ruin which his free trade policy will bring to other industries. In this connection it will be remembered that one_ of thcfirst authoritative declarations that the present sugar schedules would be presented appeared in an interview with Secretary Carlisle. It is said that, in expectation of the passage of a tariff bill with the administration sugar schedule therein, the trust is importing now large quantities of raw sugars, controlling! as it does, the crop of Cuba, Porte Rico and the British West Indies, and putting it ip bond against the imposition of the 40 percent, duty on raw sugars, which are now admitted free, and that the profit by the rise consequent, upon the Cleveland duty will be over $50,000,000. On this the government would receive no tax, and the people would contribute more than $50,000,000 to the Democratic Sugar Trust.