Sugar Trust Frauds by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 29.

Sugar Trust Frauds

By Editor

Sugar Trust Frauds.—While criminal prosecutions have demonstrated again and again great fraudulent transactions in connection with the sugar trust, it is remarked that no matter how many minor officers and employees may have been implicated in the conspiracy, these gigantic stealings could hardly have been continued year after year unless there was a working alliance between political corruption and sugar trust corruption, but that how far this alliance went and who were the parties on the congressional side has never been revealed.

According to a bulletin of the department of commerce and labor, meat prices will continue to advance. In May, 1910, canned beef was 12.1 cents a pound, 11.1 cents in January, and 10.7 cents in May, 1909. Nearly all meats have likewise increased during the last year. Experts look forward toward a further increase. This is certainly an argument ad hominem against meat-eating. On the other hand, the prices of grains have decreased, the bulletin affirms.

How Catholics Regard It.—The Western Watchman has this note: "Two prominent Catholics in different parts of the country married Protestants before heretical ministers. Of course there was no marriage. We soon shall have more mistresses in the United States than they have in France." We wonder if these two prominent Catholics so regard their wives. If they are loyal, and the Western Watchman editor, who is said to be the dean of Catholic editors in the United States, is correct, they certainly so regard their wives. If he is correct and they do not so regard their wives, but do hold them as their own lawful wedded wives, then they ought to break away from the communion that would so pervert the marriage bond.

A despatch from Colorado Springs, July 5, states that P. J. Carrigan, a seaman and former Alaska miner who was at the place above named searching for a former mining comrade, said that he had ascended Mount McKinley in Alaska and had there found the records which Dr. Cook left on the summit of the mountain. He found a copper tube containing records and an American flag sticking out of a crevice in a boulder in such a way that he declares it would attract the attention of any one within a hundred feet of it; and he also says that he did not learn until his return from Alaska that Dr. Cook's story of his ascent of Mount McKinley was doubted.

A number of Catholic societies of the United States have sent congratulations to King George V for his attitude on the coronation oath. All true Protestants will agree that a religious declaration has no part in the oath of a king; yet why did not the same Catholics likewise protest against the oath Queen Edna of Spain took? They are about parallel—the oath of the English king declared Catholicism untrue, the oath of Edna declared Protestantism anathema.

Dr. John Henry Haynes, who contested with Professor Hilprecht the discovery of the Temple Library at Nippur, is dead. He was born Jan. 27, 1849, and has devoted much of his long life to Semitic archeology, having held positions on the Wolfe expedition to Babylonia, as well as on those of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mosquito swarms have invaded Port Arthur, Texas. As a result of bites, 700 are ill, five seriously so. One woman had to have a foot amputated. The oil companies of the neighborhood are trying to stamp out the pest by covering near-by ponds and streams with oil. Ten thousand barrels have so far been donated.

A news item from England tells us that now no wedding in London is complete without the gift of a cigarette-holder, and continues, "Exceptions to this rule are distinctly rare." There have been reports before that English women smoke, and it is sad indeed to see that the custom is becoming established in this manner.

This is a report of the federal treasury department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, in four words: A deficit of $126,375,438. This year, according to experts, there will be a surplus of $500,000.

An ancient manuscript of religious poetry has been discovered. One scholar regards it as written by a Christian in the apostolic age, another as written by a Jew of that time and later revised by a Christian.

The railroad from Konakry, French Guinea, to Kurussa, Uasulo, will soon be completed. The difficulties of its construction were exceedingly numerous. It is a part of the French system of colonial railways.

Two deaths have recently occurred in the Senate of the United States,—John W. Daniel, senior senator from Virginia, June 29, of paralysis, and Samuel D. McEnery of Louisiana.

"Germany is appeased. . . . The pope says he did not wish to wound the sensibilities of the Germans. . . . But the pope did not take anything back."—Western Watchman (Catholic).

The appropriations of the present Congress have been $39,000,000 more than ever before.