The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1913-04-30

JioLs and all things having the cor
porA,e brand. 1t is barely pos
sioIe that in dealing with Iree
sugar" they have in mind only the
Great Western Sugar company; that
in dealing with the metal situation
they imagine themselves striking
at the Shielding corporation. and in
upholding free wool they are reach
ing at a New England wooden trust.
This is surely narrow view TO
| Jake. 1t is not a question of the
profits OF the sugar manufacturing
company or other corporations that
purchase the raw material produced
IN Colorado-it 10 the life or the
death OF the commonwealth as a
whole that is at stake.
Ii it were the corporations alone
they could be permitted to take care
OF themselves. Ii the corporations
cannot make money in the develop
mena of Colorado they will go else
where.
In the meantime what is to be-
come OF the statef Last year $780,
100000 was .speut in the growth.
md nuIacture and distribution of
sugar. lake this out of the COL
umn and Colorado will be much
the poorer.
Since sugar beet growing has
become an established industry in
the state the price OF farm land
has gone up in some cases so and
In other cases 100 per cent. The
late Jared Brush was authority for
the statement that IN the northern
counties the incoming of the sugar
beet had doubled the price OF land.
and farmer and statistician alike
concede that the sugar beet indus
try has not only added TO the val
ue of land. but to = notable : In
ereAse in ScrossAwAs1 properly ro-
tated.
1t would have been impossible to
have spent many millions Of dollars
ON irrigation projects in Colorado
in the last decade were At not for
the coming Of the sugar beet. lrri-
cation development is dependent up
ON the increasing growth of land
N all of the irrigation districts.
Destroy the beet industry and
irrigation bonds will TALL in price
and become unmarketabie. farm
mortgages will be OF questionable
value and every inch of farm lands
in all those regions where the sug-
ar factories are situated will fall
in price. The sugar company will
suffer, no doubt, but unfortunately
| the suffering from the threatened
disasuer will not stop with the cor
porat.on and its immediate stock
holders.
The state produced seven and a
half million pounds of wool last
year. 1t Is proposed to put wool on
the free LIST to aid the East. This
means a drop In the price of home
grown wool. Again, the Colorado
farmer will have to bear the brunt
Tbs must mean depreciation in the
value of the range and other lands
A reduction In the price of lead
WILL strike at a number of mining
districts IN this state and will re-
auire a realignment of wages ant
profits.
1t may be that all these interior
ences with home markets WILL ben
eft some populous sections else
where; but what we are interested
in is their effect upon this oul
commonwealth.
The sugar company funds can finA
Investments elsewhere; the smelte
company can move to more advatn
tageous fields and the packing cor
porations of Chicago can still fur
Their increase their holdings in Ar
gentina and elsewhere beyond tn
nat .on's boundaries, to make Vi
the difference; but what about tn
property owners and the home own
ers here in Denver and the farmer