Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26

Inasmuch as the Maverick has
ALWAYS taken a stand tor those
things which initiate for bigger
and better Mountain Home; for
anything that will increase the
prosperity of her people and confer
lasting benefits upon this and tu-
ture generations, and we con-
siderer it of equal Importance to
oppose that which jcopard1zcs the
interests of the community. which
interests are these of each individ-
uaI in the community, we feel that
it is our duty to take issue on the
recent attack made upon the Great
Western Beet Sugar company by the
Reublican of this city.
Were it not for the fact that the
utterances CT any newspaper are Oh
semi-official nature, and that such
utterances carry much weight with
aireadingipubllc, mo matter what the
status of the paper itself, and there
in lies a grave danger OF creating
false impression through wilful mis-
representation, we would pass the
statements of the Republican by as
inspired by personal pique, petty
jealousy and nature too narrow
to comprehend that no great good is
accomplished without some injury
TO few.
1t is generally admitted that the
Great Weston Beet Sugar company
has been and is responsible for the
prosperity of Mountain Home
and that it is alone due to its
agency that the town is today in
the front rank in Southern Idaho
This has not been accomplished
without a struggle. Three quar-
ters of a million dollars have been
expended here in the last ten years
in perfecting an irrigation system.
The men who have expended this
money have had to overcome
many obstacles, combat the sus-
picion and opposing sentiment
which is ever inspired by under
takings of this proportion and in
volving the expenditure OF large
sums of money. 1t has been
struggle which would have dauntec
most men; and yet the men who
are behind the Great Western Bee
Sugar company today are the mer
who have stood Loyalty by the pro
ject since is inception.
And now we are about to witness
the elimination of those eftors ex
tending over'a period of many years
are about to reap tile benefits OF
foil largely unfinished and whicl
can at its best repay but poorl
those TO whom its success is due
Believing in the integrity Q
the men administering the affair
of the Great Western Beet Suga
company; believing in the integri
~ of their intention toward Noun
tain Home and the land owners un
der the canal system, we nave
through interviews with some OF tn
principal business men and Ian
owners, ascertained the public ser
timent. and find not a word in cor
demnation of the Great Wester
Beet Sugar company or of its dea
ings with water users, but on tn
other hand, that the attack upon tn
company by the Republican is cor
sidered most unwarrantcd; th'
instead of ccnsure the company d
serves the highest praise; that II
attack of the Republican menac'
the future of Mountain Homcin tn
capital is timid and these stat
ments tend to frighten the ms
who contemplates making extensi'
improvements, therefore 1t is
blow and a direct injury to the Ii
boring man who is the backbone
the community. To cut otf Il
resources of the lsboring man,
naturally follows that great
Jury will De done the butcher, t