#112b - MORGAN THE MAGNIFICENT: History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. III (Part 2)
Subliminal Jihad
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The Sugar Trust and Its Consequences
The sugar trust, with the havermirs at its head, carried on continually a colossal system of frauds upon the government in the fraudulent weighing of imported sugar. In addition to these monumental swindles, the sugar trust continuously, so continued, so absolutely secure in its monopoly that it was easily able to crush all competitors and extort an annualr placed by some authorities at 55 million dollars a year. The amount of which the government had been thus defrauded reached fully tens of millions of dollars. So when mc kinley was elected as president with a congress the majority of which was of his views, it was a distinct notification that the plutocracy was in full power.
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