The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25

TWO miles, and placed fat, side by side,
would make a silver line over twenty
miles in length. A million dollars in
silver would make four car loads. and
divided it would give Sc to each man,
woman and child in the Territory. This
is the amount of money it is proposed
to save to the Territory by the produc
ton of our own sugar. We are paying
out annually that amount of money for
that one article. Can we produce it?
We can. Can we produce it probably :?
We can. What profit can we make
on the production2 At ordinary
price of sugar we can make 20 per
cent We can make thet profit if we
make from sorghum alone, and by the
use of beets il addition to the sor-
ghum
wa CAN DOUBLE THE ANNUAL PROFITS.
With regard to the making of sugar
from beets, the failure OF the attempt
of thirty-tive years ago, left the i'm
preston that it was impracticable in
this soil and climate, but the science
that improved the saccharile proper
ties of the plant from three-eighihs
of one to IA or Is per cent. Will not
stop short of any difficulties that may
exist here. Success means the over
coming of difficulties, and it is readily
acknowledged that if there were no
difficulties there would be no success.
The principal requisite is the deter
minatlOn, and the determination needs
an incentive. For a motive we should
look no further than the respect we all
owe to our country and our people to
make them independent. With such
an object in view, il is eXcusable if in
the doing of it we override
some conVentionalities and occasion
ally cut a Gordian knot instead of
stopping to mite it. Hypercritical peo-
pie may call some things unsavory so
long as success is doubtful, but when
that all prevailingly successful success
is reached the unsaVory becomes
sanctifed and the unseemly becomes
beautiful, and the multitude make
merit of the truth they once despised.
When l reflect upon the hypercriticism
with which some non-energetic per-
sons Judge the doings of others who do
try to accomplish something, l think
they delight in as refined judgment
upon a well designed action as Portia
gave upon Shylock's evil intent.
take thou thy pound of flesh;
But, in the cutting it, If thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and
goods
Are, by the laws of Venice, confscate
Unto the State of Venice"
If one 1s found experimenting and
determined for success and, alone and
single-handed, has the audacity
to continue beyond the point
where in the opinion of the
inert he ought to consider
himself beaten, no matter how worthy
his object nor how much the general
prosperity may ba enhanced by the
principle he seeks to introduce, if in
The attempts he makes he steps aside
from he'beaten paths of mammonistic
rules and regulations. "even in the es-
tlmatlon of hair" and if he cuts a
.fordlon knot without stopping to unite
it-and II he In any degree does vio-
lence to the established usages of
money, making, then is.he damned and
handed over to the tender mercies of
oblivion by the present generation, who
are naturally prone to stone the living
prophets amp worship the dead ones. It
is this unjust proclivity of the human
rase, the offspring of envy and jealousy
which has condemned SO many real
benefactors to 1gnominious graves of
poverty, while subsequent generations
have resurrected their names and ac-
knowledged the good they have re-