Talk:Charles H. Allen

Ribes Tovar's interpretation
Ribes Tovar appears to be overstating Allen's role in terms of Puerto Rico's economy, as he only became Pres. of American Sugar Refining Co. in 1913, and then served only two years, according to a 1915 article written by the NY Times after Allen announced his resignation as pres. that year.Parkwells (talk) 03:19, 3 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Evidently you did not read the Ribes Tovar book, nor any of the books listed twice for you on the Pedro Albizu Campos talk page. If you had read it, you would know that Allen resigned as governor in 1901 and headed straight to Wall Street, where he joined the House of Morgan as vice-president of both the Morgan Trust Company and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, through which he built his sugar syndicate in Puerto Rico. By 1907 this syndicate, the American Sugar Refining Company, owned or controlled 98% of the sugar processing capacity in the United States and was known as the Sugar Trust. By 1910 Allen was Treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Company, by 1913 he was its President, and by 1915 he sat on its Board of Directors. He built the largest sugar syndicate in the world (currently known as Domino Sugar) and his hundreds of political appointees in Puerto Rico provided him with land grants, tax subsidies, water rights, railroad easements, foreclosure sales and favorable tariffs.


 * But since you didn't read the material, you do not know this.


 * You are also selectively quoting from the NY Times article. The article is very short, so it is difficult to miss the information therein . This Times article clearly states that Allen was the Treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Company in 1910, President in 1913, and on the Board of Directors in 1915. Sarason (talk)

Section blanking
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The sections were restored along with their sources and citations. If further bad-faith editing develops on this page, it shall be treated as such. Sarason (talk) 09:52, 12 December 2014 (UTC)