Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-07-07
NIBLEY'S DEFENSE OF THE
SUGAR HOLDUP

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the Salt Lake Press, in relation to the
sugar industry in the inter-mountain
country and the price charged local
people for this commodity, and prom
ised that we would have something to
say this week in reply.
In the first place, in order that all
our readers may understand exactly
what Mr.. Nibley's relationship is to
the sugar trust, and also the attitude
of the local companies towards the
people, we advise that you send 10
cents to c. G. Patterson, Box 151, Salt
Lake City, for a copy Of a phamplet
which he recently issued on the Utah
Idaho Sugar Companies, and in which
is reproduced n considerable volume
of testimony and correspondence in
troduced before the Interstate Com
merce Commission during an investi-
cation Of the sugar trust, and which
we haven't room to reproduce here
This will clear up number of matters
which Mr.. Nobley in his statement
fails to shed light upon.
Bishop Nibley Foxy Charlie, as he
is quite frequently termed) makes y
very plausible talk, and one which is
calculated TO gain the credence of un-
thinking people, and Of persons strong
ly prejudiced in his favor on account
of ecclesiastical connections, since he
is a prominent church member and
speaks with good deal Of authority
to subordinate members, and we re
alize that in order to get fair hear
ing we have heavy load Of perjudicc
to move off the track, but though the
road may be long one, we believe
that right will triumph In the end, and
that while it may be possible to foo
some Of the people all the time, ant
all the people part Of the time, IL will
be impossible to fool the great major
ity of the people all the time. We In,
tend to use our feeble efforts TO gel
some Of the facts before the people
And right here we want to say that
there Is a great deal more moral cow
ardice on the part Of the people thar
there is ignorance. There is lot OF
dissatisfaction about the way they
are being exploited and discriminate
against, and the fact that they are
not heard from very often must moi
be taken to indicate that they are
ignorant or unmindful Of conditions
as they exist.
The first part Of Mr.. Nibley's state
ment is devoted to an effort to show
that the three Utah sugar companies
operating from IL to Is sugar fac
tories, in Utah and Idaho, have nothing
whatever to do with making the price
of sugar in this part of the country
He says that the price is based on the
price in New York asked for imported
sugar, plus the cost of refining anc
freight to this territory, and that 1.-THE
Utah-Idaho Sugar company and the
Amalgamated Sugar Company have
no more to do with fixing those prices
than they have TO do with the direc-
ton of the wind. Neither can they
affect them or control them in any de-
gree, any more than they can affect
or control the changes of the moon
Pretty strong talk this, if true, and
so far as it relates ia the general
price of sugar in the eastern markets
it is substantially true, without doubt
The local companies might create a
little short lived furry in the general
market, of course, by disregarding and
defying the trust, and dumping their
output on the market at a reduced
price. But this is all thunder on the
part of Mr.. Nibley to divert public at
tention from the real point at issue
and is not germaine to the local ques
ton. The abuse that this paper j
fighting against. and with which ne
one is more familiar than Mr.. Niblev
is the practice Of exploiting his ow
people-the consumers of Utah and
Idaho and other contiguous states-fo
the sake of providing an unreasonab'
dividend for the stockholders of hi
companies. He states that the grco
bulk of the local product must b.
marketed on the Missouri River, show
ing that we do not import sugar int
this territory, but hat on the CONTRA
we export the major portion of VIA
we manufacture here. and yet the
must needs add freirht from Nv
York here to the New York price, and
charge local consumers this figure for
a product that is produced in ample
quantity and to spare, at home. Mr.
Nibley is so used TO looking at the
world through mercinary eyes that
there is nothing so impossible and pre-
posterous TO him as 10 consider selling
anything he has to market for less TO
his neighbors and home people than he
is absolutely compelled by outside in
fiuences 10 do. To such men, we fear,