Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-04
Tribune's Vile Onslaught Met by
Governor John C.
Cutler.
BANKER McCoRNlCKS VIEWS.
Japanese Labor Has Proved the sal
walton of the Beet Crop
In Idaho.


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Gle in the Salt Lake Tribune ostcnsibly
dated from tnis place and the Trib-
unes headlines and comments thereon,
created Indignation and disgust here
where the facts IN relation to Japanese
labor are so thoroughly understood.
Every city ana town in Bingham and
Fremont counties, which remembers
the scarcity of labor last year and the
impossibility of the farmers obtaining
white help in the handling of the beet
crops, can testify that the Tribune's
article is maliciausly false from be-
gnning to end. An the people OF these
counties, Gentles and Mormons. know
the endeayors that have been made to
secure white help for the beet fields,
and of the appeals made through pub
lie meetings for the people TO furnish
the help to save the farmers crops
The Tribune article, therefore. becomes
absurd and its malice is so evident that
it can only defeat itself.
The article in the Tribune referred
to in the above dispatch was printed on
Saturday and the usual attempt was
made to prejudice the public against
the beet sugar Industry, for the sole
reason that Mormon capital Is con-
cerned in II. The Tribune article
states that the Utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany has no use for whites and that
itfprefers Japanese labor to Americans
in the beet fields of Idaho. Governor
John c. Cutler one of the directors OF
the company promptly answered the
Tribune article and his letter is printed
below. 1t punctures the Tribune posi-
ton so thoroughly, that it is something
of a marvel that that sheet should
print ii at all. Its appearance can only
be accounted for on the superstition
that the chief dispenser of blackguard-
ism was temporarily absent The gov
ernor's letter is as follows:
Editor Salt Lake Tribune: In this
mornings issue of your paper l notice
an article under these sensational head
lines: Sugar company has no use for
whites Prefers Japanese laborers to
Americans in beet fields of Idaho You
give certain reason why the Utah
Idaho Sugar company is supposed to
prefer Japanese TO American laborers,
and you quote my name as one of the
directors of said company. which you
say makes this preference.
II desire to state emphatically that
the said statement of preference is alb
solutely untrue. The Utah Idaho Sugar
company is and has been at all times In
favor of giving not only American citi-
zens, but citizens of Utah and Idaho
the preference and in proof of this I
VIII say that at the Lehi factory, which
Is one of the largest of the company's
IdClDtltSs none ul ING QlltD NldSa re-
ferred to are employed, because there
are enough American citizens to do the
work. Idaho is a new and sparsely set
tied state. where the sugar factories are
established, but preference is given to
citizens of that state when white men
can be employed by the company. But
IL the factories had now to depend en-
tirely on residents and citizens to fur
nish the labor for the sugar factories in
Idaho they could not run. Time will
remedy this condition, as II has done In
Utah.
'And / may add that when the thou
sands of people now living in want in
thickly settled parts of the east find
out that so much better living can be
made In these western states than in
their congested districts. l believe they
viii come west settle on our vacant
lands, accept the labor that these fac
tories and other institutions win be glad
to give them, and make themselves and
their families ind pendent. But until
white labor Is available, these compa-
MES are under the necessity of engaging
such labor as can be had.
JOHN c. CUTLER"
Salt Lake. Feb. l. 1905
MIR. M'CoRNICK's STATEMENT.
.-r. w. s. Mccormick. another of the
directors of the Utah-ldaho Sugar
company. said;
like beet sugar which Ioes SO great
an amount of good, should be attacked
in such an unjustlfable manner The
facts which anyone could have ascer-
tained, are that the pres nee OF Jap
anese labor In Idaho has been the sal
walton OF the farmers engaged in beet
culture The farmers simply could not
handle their crops, though they and
the sugar company moved heaven and
earth to obtain the necessary white
help, and II the japanese labor had not
been obtained II is hard to say what
would have happened to the ndu try
in that part of the country. Idaho Is
sparsely settled and the tracts of land
are very large, not like they are in
Utah, where the farmer grows small
patches of heets and takes care OF
them with the aid of his family White
labor cannot be secured in Idaho 10
pull beets and load them, and the sugar
company, in aiding the farmers to Sc
cure Japanese labor, ought % be APP
plauded rather than blamed The Colo.
RADIO where the sugar Industry Is mucn
larger than here, they have the ame
problem to meet, but as Japs are not
obtainable there. the labor is let to
Russian immigrants who are brought