The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-02-26
Beet Contracts.

Beet Contracts.
The following resolution WAS pass
cd unanimously by the Otero County
Beet Growers Association at Rocky
Ford, Colorado. Saturday, February
20, 1908:
Whereas, a committee of twenty
seven men, representing several bus
mess organizations Of the Arkansas
valley, have published resolution
relating to scale of prices for beete,
and declared these prices to be "fair
to both factory and growers" and
Whereas, the said scale of prices
was drawn up by the American Beet
Sugar Co., on Wednesday evening
last for submission by the said busi-
ness mems committee to q committee
of the beet growers for adoption or
revision, and
Whereas, before negotiations were
concluded between the Sugar Co.,
and the beet growers, the said reso-
luton was given to the press Of the
valley and published for the purpose
of strengthening the said company
before the people and Of throwing
the weight of the business interests
Of the valley against the farmers and
Whereas, we know that many of
the twenty seven business men never
signed or even heard of the resolu-
tion in question while some others
say that they have had no sufficient
knowledge of the merits of the con-
troversy; knew nothing of what was
fair between the contending parties
but tentatively approved the state
ment merely as q starting point for
negotiations and
Whereas, the said business mems
committee was appointed as media
tors by certain Pueblo parties at the
instigstion of the Sugar Company's
agents, and was in no wise suggested
or counseled as medistors by the
beet growers, Therefore
RESOLVED. that while we wish to
hold as friends our friends among
the twenty-seven business men, We
declare that the prices said to be fair
are not fair, that trap was set to
ensnare them as we'll as the beet
growers; that sitting with them were
men who favored peace at any price;
that the growers who do the work Of
the valley will maintain their ground
for price that promises them liv-
ing; and will not accept price that
cuts that living to the merest exist
ence, or adopt scale that is not GER
tain to bring for beets what is equal
to $500 per ton flat.
Glenn V. Ryan,
G. R. Douglass,
J. H. Crowley,
Committee.
The above bunch was handed the
business men of the valley on last
Saturday by the Otero County Beet
Growers Association. Tho associa-
ton sent members to all the valley
towns to induce the business men to
iptercede for them. After the latter
at the expense Of time and money
had secured the best terms possible
from the factory managers, they were
given this slap by the association.
None of the other valley associations
have been guilty Of such disoour-
tesy, but it came from the association
run by those perpetual Legislative
candidates, Crowley and Ebbert.
Whatever may be the merits Of the
beet controversy, the business men
were .ctuated by motives Of friend
ship and mutual interest with the
farmers, and did the best they could
under the circumstances, several OF
them having larger beet acreage to
be affeeted by the new rates than any
of the men who handed them the
above insult. The Otero county as
sociation will be better off when it
fires its shystsrs and puts real far