p. 13 | A Giant Lawbreaker

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 8, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 48.

A Giant Lawbreaker.

It is strongly stated as fact, and it is claimed that there is an abundance of evidence to back up the statement, that the sugar trust has stolen not less than $30,000,000 from the United States Treasury during the last twenty years. One journal declares that it is guilty of ten different counts as proved by legislative and congressional investigations; namely, bribing political committees of both parties, seeking to influence United States senators unlawfully, accepting rebates of freight in violation of law, stealing from the Government through weighing freights, conspiring to ruin independent sugar refiners, violating the Sherman anti-trust law, using short-weight scales, black-listing grocers who handle independent sugar, importing cheap contract labor, and violating factory and health laws. Yet notwithstanding all this, “no high official was ever criminally prosecuted or convicted for any of these offenses.” There is no wonder that even judges are moved at times to cry out against the slack administration of justice. Supposing some poor man had stolen a barrel of sugar.