Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-07-14
THE UTAH4DAHO SUGAR
COMPANY VS.. THE PEOPLE


own medicine, which, if added to the
price of 16 per cent beets and paid to
the farmers of Utah would raise the
price of beets in Utah to $6.07 ton.
Gwen at the price of sugar received
by the company, farmers would re-
! ceive nearly 20 per cent more for their
beets than they are now receiving-a
condition which would do mountains
of good to every man, woman and
child in Utah.)
Solution of (b): $4,000 times 10
equals 100000, which is the number
of pounds of sugar sideswitched by
the author of Facts" etc. 100000
times ST. equals 304,500 worth of their
own medicine, which, if deducted from
the grand total of dollars paid for SUI
gar by Utah consumers to the Utah
Idaho Sugar company would, happily,
obliterate approximately 33 1-3 per
cent of the present price from the
present price and would make EVERY
BODY happy-except, of course, the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company.
The author of "Facts About the Su-
gar Industry" not only made several
grievous errors in the presentation
of his "facts," as the reader of this
article must admit, but he, purposely
or unknowingly, failed to state the
most vital facts about the sugar in
dustry. Notwithstanding the fact that
the Utah-Idaho Sugar company pays
| from 20 per cent to 30 per cent less
| for beets, ACCORDING TO THE SUI
| GAR CONTENTS, than do sugar com
panies of other states, and notwith-
standing the fact that its wage scale
is below the wage scale of all other
companies, with the exception, per-
haps, of the Amalgamated Sugar COM
Ipany-also of Utah-it costs the Utah
Idaho Sugar company more TO sack a
hundred pounds of sugar than is costs
| almost every other beet sugar COM
pany in the whole world. And the sole
reason why such is the case is this;
The officials of the Utah-Idaho Sugar
| company are in the sugar business for
| the one solitary purpose of making
| money.
| At first reading this statement
| might seem to be a contradiction with
/ in itself, but it is not. One would, nat
urally, think the less it costs the Utah
| Idaho Sugar company to manufacture
sugar, the more money the officials Of
the Utah-Idaho Sugar company would
make; but such is not the case. The
| salaries of the officials of theUtah-
Idaho Sugar company are not in any
way dependent upon the cost of man
ufacturing increase, which a lower
cost of production would permit,
would by no means be eual, in dollars
and cents, to the money which the of
ficials of the Utah Idaho Sugar COM
pany make by spending their time and
talents in other lines Of business. The
people of Utah are paying dearly for
official inefficiency which, in dollars
and cents, amounts to the cost Of
thousands of tons of sugar every year
official inefficiency, mind you. And
the people of Utah will be compelled
TO keep on paying for this inefficiency
so long as they permit the existing
sugar companies of Utah to say who
shall and who shall not manufacture
sugar in this state.
From the standpoint of the con
sumner the laborer and the farmer, the
| Utah Idaho Sugar company is a pest;
and the only hope for it's future lies
in the fact that il can be made a
blessing But silence and sohistry
will never bring the latter condition
about. The beet sugar industry of
Utah must be held constantly before
the public view, it must be understood,
IL must be criticized, it must be liam
basted" and it must me REFORMED.
Forget, Mr.. Utah-Idaho Sugar com
pany, all the rot about the golden
| shackle Return 10 the frame of mind
in which you found yourself years ago,
/ when you pleaded--pleaded sincerely,
/ believe-for the backing, physical,
moral and financial, of your comrades
Forget, for day, that you are insane
ly seeking the stuff which built the
golden calf. And learn to recognize
the fact that you, alone, are not Utah,
and that the hand and the heart of real
manhood and wonhood are so far
superior to the ducats for which you
are striving, that you should be
ashamed TO look the dollar in the face
which comes TO you on account of your
systematic, your studied and your
everlasting robbery of the people,