The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-08
UTAH SUGAR AND THn Trust.

The Herald endorses all that can be
said in support of the movement. COM
mencing with Democratic resolutions,
to strengthen the Utah Sugar com
ipany in its fight with the great Sugar
Trust. If the people of Utah will buy
up the output of the present season,
the victory will be against the trust
for the present year. If they will be
determined to purchase the home made
article right along when there is any
in the market, the. triumph will be
complete.
The Utah Sugar works started with
the expectation of making sugar at a
profit, which would yield good returns
to the investors without any aid by
way of bounties The amounts re-
leeived from that source have been so
much to the favor of the company. 1t
is now in good condition to carry on its
business like any other industrial en-
iterprise-on its merits, without artiti-
cial and eXtraneous assistance. All it
needs is the patronage of the people in
la legitimate business way. That sup
port it should and we believe viii re-
ceive
The enemy which it has to meet is
the Sugar Trust. That is a product of
Republican legislation. The free
sugar" of the Mckinley law, it should
be understood, was raw. sugar 1t is
not in use by the people. 1t goes to the
refineries to be worked up for the mar
ket Those refineries are under con-
troll of the Trust, The Mckinley law
gave the refineries the benefit of a duty
| of siX-tenths of one per cent. on re-
fined sugar. The profits of the Trust
have been enormous. The heads of the
concern labored at Washington for the
retention of the Mckinley duty. They
failed in their purpose but succeeded
in obtaining about one-fourth of the
protection which they had under the
Mckinley law.
The idea that the consumers of sugar
obtained the article free of duty under
the Mckinley law is fallacy The
sugar refiners obtained it, free of duty,
and they were protected by the duty
on refined sugar, every dollar of the
result of which went into the pockets
of the Trust to the tune of more than
500, 100000 year. None of that went
into the treasury of the nation 1t was
for the special benefit of the giant and
voracious Trust which is now seeking
to swallow up the sugar industry at
Lehi.
The reduced duty of one-eighth of
one per cent, an amount which is
less than one-fourth of what the Trust
had under the Mckinley law, would
have been remedied altogether but for
the Republicans in the Senate with the
aid of four Democrats. The monster,
which was born and nourished under
the Republican system of protection, is
deprived of much of its means of suck
ing revenue from the life-blood of the
body polite but still draws from that
source power to cripple or crush those
sugar industries which will not come
into its combine
The people of Utah should under
stand these facts, and the workings of
the system of which they appear to
approve, but the effects of which they
can see in the danger which threatens
one of their important industries. But
though some of them have shown in
consistency in this matter, that should
not deter any one from supporting the
Utah works in the struggle for life
against the foe which seeks to devour
it. Buy Utah sugar and maintain
home industry