The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-23

10 IllS GlItOI VI LIE A1EhALD
1 read with interest in yesterdays
SUNDAY HERALD the article on the
"Sugar Industry" from the intelligent
pen of one, who, from his frequent
cham pionship of certain ant-protect;o'
ideas, has earaed the title of Paul, =
apostle of the non-producers, - ,
enter the lists and touch his 80 -
have friendly talk with h; 49,, ',
important subiecth he discu'
pleasure in arraying NJ ~ ,',aon ~,
producers banner. 1v not,-aI nro
cliyities having LEI Wy na''rai pro
0-I't me away into IN
uuStiiAl 'uiSu from the more erudite
l pa'N' ~ ~ .olarly attainments, and
us p-o' Jly, because my early appe-
'l,c was surfeited with the latter, for
WIN 1 was yet young ] had
" much Latin, Greek French,
mathematics and history drilled
| into me as falls 20 the lot of
most men Of mature age; so now l
would rather study the necromsncy of
production and the sci nee of manu-
facture in the blessed light OF the
sun of day, than burn the mid
night OIL over the abstrusa problems OF
Medea of Euripides, the witheriDl
uuenI orations of Cicero, and l WoulJ
rather study the alchemy of agriculture
than read about the S. z. @. B. aud A
U. G. of Tacitus or Livy, although al
one time l would have made appiica-
ton to become member of the Delta
Phi society here if l had not, as III,
boys say, Caught on" to the hidden
sarcasm concealed within It's mystic
title, and "twigged" the horrible joke
perpetrated upon the innocent member
by him who first suggested the name.
Theory without practice Is like faitE
without works. There are so many
theories which, like arguments mutt
upon false premises, will not bear
practical demonstration, that although
l neither shun nor despise, am in
fever to put thein to the test
Archimedes said two thousand years
ago: "Give me fulcrum and | will
lift the EARTH" but he has not yet
found the fuicrum, and many a man
will build castles in the air, i'll theory.
but when you ask how TO make the
first stone overcome the law of graviia-
ton and remain suspended SO IS to
build on 1T, he fails. Allow 3 man 20
select his own premises, and he viii
build an Vertlble argument,
but attack the premises and unless
based upon solid truth, the beautiful
structure falls to the ground; 80,
although I plead guilty 10 the sol
impeachment of dealing somewhat Ii.
theories, or plans, or phil0s opniz ugs
yet I never allow myself 10 SIT p there
l immediately proceed t. put Them to
the test. For instance, my agricultural!
inclinauons led me to false wheat,
which | did in consideratle quantities
but l found [ cou II not get
fair price lor it; This led me 10
seek the reason why. | found
every body was raising wheat, and that
therefore there was more wheat raised
than could be consume here, and con-
sequently, some had to be exportt 10
find market; just as soon as the hrst
few carloads were shipped away The
the foreign mari ct less he freight; and
as the cheapest rate of export was "a
cents per bushel, our neigbboring farm
large amount. Now, here comes the
theory: if we can raise something else
instead of wheat, so as to reduce the
supply below the actual Cenand and 80
that importation will take the place Of |
expectation, then the price Of whea |
will go up to what it ca be bought here |
for, and thus the farmer will get the |
benefit of two freights, or 48 cents pc |
bushel, which will bring it to about$I- |
as little as it can be raised for and pay
decent wages. In accordance with my |
practical ideas, set about to see what |
could be raised here that We were al |
ready paying money for. l looked |
around and found that we are paying |
large sums for sugar, and that farmers |
were paying bushel of whe It for foL r
pounds of that necessary article. Now,
theory steps in and says; l. crys'alizable |
sugar can be raised here at all in this
alkaline soil, surely you can raise
enough to the acre to buy good deal of
wheat. Immediately set about to see
if it could be done, for it certainly bad |
a black eye from the failure of the eff
fort Of thirty years previous, and the
had gained ground that the
of the soil presented an in
vincible hostility; but aided by the wise
and far-seeing Legislature of 1880, which
offered SIS, 00U for the production of not
a few thin blefulls, but three and half !
tons of sugar. After three years trial, /
in producing the amount
and thus demonstrated the fact that
an acre of ground now yielding to the
farmer fifteen or twenty bushels of
wheat could with skillful labor be made ]
TO yield sugar enough to buy him from '
zoo to $50 bushels. Here then was the
practical illustration of this theory. :
Now as the industry required consider /.
able capital to put it on a sufficiently
arge scale to make it pay, the next
theory was if we can show that it can ]
De made profitably, capital will be [
readily furnished. Here came the
most difficult practical effort of all, for
t looked as though a man must over !
come the laws of gravitation and lift
himself up by the collar of {
lis coat, while he could place {
/ substantial support under his {
eet. Capitalists say. you show us
" actual demonstration that you can {
make it profitable. and we will furnish
you any amount OF money. The I
rouble was to get the money to dem S
,nstrate 1t with. For three years 1 {
withheld myself from asking for it, be- t
ause the price of eugar was low and t
&c a l.