The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-24

request. You know. " we had refused
1t. pointblank. they wonId have destroyed
every interest we had within the domain
of their power. 1 should have been ruined
financially. All our stockholders would
have suffered. They would never have
forgiven Inc"
send the letter. His failure became
known, through church espionage and the
report OF the church's friends in the SEN
ate. Pressure was brought 10 bear upon
him; and, with the aid Of his Utah rep
resentative. he compromised on letter
that did partial violence to his conscience
and partially endangered his business re-
lations with the church
Both these men were aware that the
church had broken its covenants to the
country and that Apostle Smoot could
tion or II free representative OF tho peo-
pie of his state
Partners: Church and Sugar Trust.
He was allowed TO take his oath Of Of
flee as senator or March ., 1908; the
protests against him were referred TO the
tions for a hearing January u. 1904,
and a contest began that lasted from
January. 1904, to February. 1907 Dur
ing those years was completed that bust
financial privilege" and religious abso-
lutism of which this narrative has de-
scribed the beginning and the growth,
1t is almost impossible to expose the
progression OF incident by which the end
OF that conspiracy was approached
since 1t was necessarily approached IN
cations OF the method and the progress
did show here and there, on the surface
OF events: and these indications are pow
erfully significant.
AS early as 1901 it had become known
that Apostle Smoot was negotiating q
sale, 10 the sugar trust, OF the church
sugar holdings, On May 18, 1902 tSee
synopsis OF the minutes of the trusts
executive committee. published In Hamp-
toms Magazine, January. 1910) The
president OF the trust reported to inc
agreed to buy a ne-half interest in the
consolidation of the Mormon factories o
La Grande, Logan and Ogden. (The fol
lowing day. May IA, 1902, is given by
obtained President Joseph +: Smiths per
mission TO become a candidate for Tho
senatorship) On June "a, 1902. th'
chase OF one-half of the capital stool
OF these three Church owned sugaI
companies On July ;. 1902, the three
companies We're consolidated under tn
name OF the Amaleamated Sugar com
] pany. with David Eccles. polygamist
trustee Of , church bonds. and proteSe o o
sugar trust took half the stock in eX
change for its holdings in the three orig
inal companies.
similarly. III IllS Same year, lllc Ol'
church-owned> Utah Sugar company in
creased its stock in order to buy the Gar
land sugar factory. and the sugar trust
! II is understood, was concerned In tn
purchase. In 1908, 1904 and 1905. tn
| Idaho Sugar company. the Fremon
| Sugar company and the West Idah
! Sugar company were incorporated. ant
| in 1906 all these companies were ANAL
gamated In the present Utah-I Idaho Suga
! company, Of which Joseph +. Smith j
! president I r. Cutler 81 Mormon, i
vice president. Horace G. Whitney. tn
| general manager of the churchs Desere
News. is secretary and treasurer, an,
other church officials are directors. o
! the stock Of this company the sugar trus
holds 81 per cent. so that between 100
and 1905 a partnership In the manufactur
of beet sugar was effected between Tn,
| church and the trust, and Apostle Smoo
/ became n sugar trust senator and arguc
and voted as such
The Prophets Confess to Polygamy
The first oracular disclosure made b.
! the prophets OH the witness stand cam
as shock even to Utah. They testihe
| that they had resumed polygamous co
| habitation to an extent upsuspected b