The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-22
to sixty days they would have done bet.
SHOOTS DIsoouRTEoUs DODGE,


muItous enthusiasm, He was cs
cortcd from the train to the hotel by
! the Richfleld band After the meeting
was over he WAS escorted 10 the hotel
where an elaborate banquet was served
in his honor. The people there dlo
everything they could 10 how thell
appreciation of the visit of high &C
cleSaSt of the Mormon church, and
would have been glad if he had treated
them with the courtesy that they
treated him.
But. sad to relate, Smoot exhibited
the utmost discourtcsy annd scorn to-
ward the people of Richheld. They
were anxious to have him throw some
light upon the sugar question, and to
this end they had formulated a dues-
tiol which they hoped and expected
that he would answer. This question
was as follows:
Very many citizens having road the
article. The Secret of the Sugar Trust s
Power" in the May number OF Hamp-
toms Magazine. IA statement as TO the
truth or falsity of the main charges in
that article would be OF much interest
II appears that the audience were
fully Informed as to the handing Of
this question to Mr.. Smoot. They sat
in broathlcss interest, awaiting the
answer 10 it, The audience was large,
but interest in the answer 10 the ques-
tion prevented any enthusiasm for the
platitudcs that Smoot was uttcring. In
the words of our correspondent. But
from the amount of applause they were
very much disappointed. -
That is, they did not enthusc over
Apostle Smoot IS meaningless twaddlc to
any extent They were there TO hear
the answer TO the question which had
been formulated by the people of Rich
field. and to which they desired and ex
pectcd an answer. Evidently, in spite
Of their disappointment at this meeting,
they still thought that Smoot, in his
banquet speech might yet give the
answer, because their interest in him
kept up even after the meeting was
over. In this, however, the met a
fresh disappointment There was moth
ing from Smoot, either at the meeting
Dr. at the banquet. in answer 10 the
question in which the people of Rich
ield took so much interest,
Tho reason the people of Richficld
ook such interest IN this question IS
hat the local sugar trust is putting in
sugar factory in Sewer county, of
which Ricb6eld is the county seat. The |
armrrs very naturally want TO know |
whether they are TO be skinned by this |
ocal sugar trust, or whether they are
o receive fair treatment. They re-
member that in the early days of the
beet sugar making in Utah |
armers got $3.50 per ton for their bcets.
n return they could buy hundred
weight OF sugar for $3.50. Now they
yet $450 per ton for their beets, but
ave to pay $500 for their hundred
weight of sugar. clear loss 10 them
# twcn five per cent on the trausac
ion. as compare with former prices.
Jnquestionably this state Of affairs was
'rought about by the alliance of tho
ocal sugar trust with the Havemeyer
ugar trust. whereby the control of the
Dcal sugar market is left in the hands
+ = local sugar trust. of which Jo-
eph f. Smith of the Mormon church
. president. Their sugar trust has
cen skinning the farmers Numerically
u the price Of beets, and President
oseph r. Smith, in the interest of his
residency of the local beet sugar trust.
scs his power as president OF the Nor
ION church to counsel and in fact com
land, the farmers to keep on raising
eets at the terms dictated by the trust.
I is double action skinning. whereby
he church. in league with the trust,
kins the farmer and rcaps the profit
+ the market controlled by President
smith S sugar trust and skins the
'hole community in the inflated price
{ sugar
IT was the most natural thing i'm the
7orld for the people of Richfeld TO
,ait with buted breath the answer TO
ne question which they had pro-
oundcd. II was distinct discourtesy
n the part Of Apostle Smoot when he
cfused to answer that question. The
atural result would be that in Sewer
ounty the vindication OF the gospel of
he sugar trust by Smoot would be by
. cans helpful to the Smoot ticket.
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