The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-28
SUGAR TRUST To
B[..PR0BED soon
Government to Allege Mormon
Leaders Helped Havemeyer
Sti6e Competition.
SMITH AND CUTLER WILL
BE AMONG DEFENDANTS
Fraud and Deceit Toward Pur-
chasers Included in the
Numerous>C Charges.

Special to Tho Tribune
NEW YORK. Nov. 27.-Thc manner
In which Joseph f. Smith, head of the
Mormon church, Thomas H. Cutler and
other leading lights in the Mormon
hierarchy cooperated with Henry o.
Havemeyer of the American Sugar Re.
lining company to- secure control Of the
beet sugar business in the intermoun-
tain states, will be told officially, and
the illegal character of their acts de-
fined, III the suit soon to be filed in
the federal court for The southern dis
trict of New York by the government
The Utah group will come in for
sharp scoring at the hands Of the at
torney general, Tho suit is TO bo
brought by direction of Attorney Geu.
! eral Wickersbam TO dissolve the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company trust as
au unlawful conspiracy iu restraint Of
trade, operating in violation Of the
Sherman antitrust law.
To Stifle Competition.
| Joseph +. Smith is named AS one of
| the defendants. The Utah Idaho Sugar
company, tho Amalgamatcd Sugar .cdm-
pauy and Lewiston Sugar company will
also be named as being component
parts Of the sugar trust. and tho
names Of Joseph +. Smith, David Ec-
cles, Thomas t. Cutler, Charles w. Nib
| ley. Iebcr j. Grant, John Henry Smith,
John e. Cutler, ". $. Mccormick and
George Romney, many of them leading
| lights III the Mormon hierarchy, viii be
named as directors in one or more OF
| the defendant corporations.
| The Story nj how Thnp,uS EuIInr
entered into agreement with Henry
| Havemeyer to secure control Of all in
| dependent beet sugar plants in tho
| intermonutain states 10 turn over their
control to the sugar trust and to pre-
vent the establishment of other indie
pendent beet sugar factories, will be
told in the government s petition.
Crush All Competitors.
The acquisition of the Bear River
| Water company S holdings of irrigated
sugar beet lands by the trust through
trust factory at Garland, Utah. to stifIe
| an independent concern then starting
| there. and the bIotting out of Soren
| Hansen S plan for an independent fuc-
tory at Sugar City, Idaho, by the Nor.
mon church and Havemeycr, will he
cited as specific acts in the conspiracy
| among sugar trust officers and Nor
iiVuo W lTGuC III NlOl2t-
| the law.
| Other independent concerns declared
| to have been stifled by the Mormon
Havemeyer conspiracy were at Idaho
| Falls, Idaho. by the formation of the
! Fremont County Sugar company ut
Nampa. also at Payette, through tho
formation and manipulation Of tho
Western Idaho Sugar company.
Joseph +. Smith is named by the gov
ernment, along with the Cutters and II.
| o. Havemeyer and the sugar trust as
co-eonspirators in the formation Of tho
Idaho Sugar company in July, 1907, the
purpose of which was to destroy compe-
tition and to give monopoly of sugar
production,
They are charged with arbitrarily
| sitting new enterprises by fixing tho
price they will pay for sugar beets and
the price at which they sell their sugar
The defendants also are charged with
deceiviug and defrauding purchasers
by misbranding their products.''
The arrangement of tho Mormous and
the sugar trust Officers in the govern.
ment case Will be Que Of the most start
ling ever made IN any of the antitrust
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