Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-08-25

bnTee OCCdSi)nS LOOh MN w a
river. One day as he was resting on
the bank curious sight met his gaze.
He beheld long procession of swine
apnroootir" The river, single file; they
descended a trail and all enjoyed a
drink and bath in the stream. When
they were refreshed, they all formed
in a line and trudged off again. The
next day at about the same hour the
nimrod witnessed the same proceed
ing, and on closer inspection he made
the discovery that the pigs were all
blind but one, and that one seemed to
be the eyes for all the rest, as IL al
ways took the lead and the others
followed along safely by each taking
hold of the ones tail Immediately a
head, and was led from feed to water
and back again, faring just as well as
il possessed of eyes of its own. Well
our friend being possessed of "shrewd
far-sighted business ability" conceived
happy thought. Taking out his
hunting knife he slipped up TO the
head pig and severed its tail, and
then catching hold of the stub he led
the long line of hogs to Chicago and
started the Armour Packing Co., and
10, the trusts have been with us ever
since. Once in while it is well to let
go of the tail ahead long enough to
ascertain whether one is being led
to the slaughter yard instead of to
the verdant pastures. There is such
thing as beine too trusting and con-
tented.
As An Industrial Blessing.
Mr.. Palmer in his article says that
| The Record has Overlooked one inn
portant element. The Sugar indus
try in Utah has been Utah's biggest
industrial blessing, and likewise to
lose IL would be our greatest possible
industrial calamity" The Record is
not unmindfu of the fact that the
Sugar companies have distributed a
great many thousands of dollars an
nually among the farmers of Utah and
Idaho and among the laborers in their
mills, but let us remark that they
have not distributed nearly so much
money in proportion to the sugar
made and marketed as have the fac
tories of Colorado and California. as
they have paid less for their beets
and labor; so that they could easily
have been greater industrial bless
ing than they have been. And yet,
over in Colorado, where their expenses
were greater, they lately distributed
over 81 100000 worth of common
stock among their shareholders, for
/, nothing, except as little special div
idend on the side, and to enable them
to pay the enormous dividends they
were accommodating by reason of the
inflated price Of sugar, without at
tracing too much unfavorable pub
lefty. BY some blunder or other this
piece of indiscreet news was permit
ted to get into the Utah newspapers,
though probably suppressed or cen
sored at home.
OF course, those fellows were only
the ordinary type Of business men,
and could not be expected to make the
pronounced success that would nat
urally result from "a wise and bust
ness-like policy" such as the "shrewd
and far-sighted" business men of this
state have done, and dividends here,
therefore, with a less expense, would
be very much greater. And who is
paying for all these enormous profits ?
Passing Out Good Thing.
. Our correspondent tells US that at
the time the Lehi factory was started
} perhaps 20 years ago, Heber j. Grant
} and other prominent men went up
and down the state begging the peo-
J pie to subscribe some little of the
stock. They candadly told us that II
/ might never be dividend-paying stock
but appealed rather to our patriotism
to help establish an industry that
would make employment for many
and do much to stimulate wider ag-
ricultural development. That it would
ever become a dividend-paying propo-
sition was scarcely dreamed of then.
How magnanimous!
Did any of you see anything of
"Uncle Heber," Bp, Nibley or any of
the rest of the family down this way
two years ago after the return of Mr.
! Nibley from New York with that
controlling interest in the Utah-Idaho
company that he brought back with
him and begging any of you to par
ticipate In that one million dollars of
profit that he garnered from the tran
saction? If he was hawking it down
this way, we certainly missed him,
for we distinctly remember that there
was nothing printed in The Record
about his trip Those northern "pa-
triots" had proved to their satisfac-
ton that sugar stock was not such a
bad investment, and did not require
the assistance of their Country cous-
, ms"
That "Big Trust" BugaboO.
Mr.. Palmer assumes, Gust as the
Utah sugar crowd wishes every man,
woman and child in this part of the
country TO assume) that any attempt
on their part to reduce the price of
sugar to local people will be met by
: summary action on the part of the
big trust, "so-called" (raising ques-
ton as to its actual existence) which
would, according TO the nursery story,
: proceed to put the Idaho infant
out of business. Sad, isn't it?
Common sense tells anyone who is
willing TO apply 1t, that no one but
the Western sugar factories and the
markets Of the world, modified by the
United States tariff, has one earthly
thing to do with fixing the price of
sugar in this market. There is an
agreement among the sugar factories
of the West, that each is TO enjoy the
privilege of exploiting the people of q
certain radius to the full extent that
the outside market and tariff will per
init, but that is all. And so long as