Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-15

DE With the Worlds Militarism
Industrial independence

Each irrigation ditch leading to beet field is a
commercial defensive trench.
Beet sugar is white mans industry in white
mans country. Sugar exclusively associated with
the Tropics is thing of the past.
The irrigated West should be the source of our
National Sugar requirements.
Is it to our credit that the Great Plains of the
West should remain unproductive when they can be
made the source of our National Sugar supply?
Do YOU realize that the irrigated lands of the
Rocky Mountain region now produce the greater por-
ton of the eight hundred thousand tons OF beet sugar
produced in the United States?
Out of total Of six hundred and seventy-two
G OF % @ fowm IN ae e ne
thousand of these acres were grown upon irrigated
There are eighty nine factories in operation con-
Verng the 1917 beet crop into Sugar-fOurteen more
than in 1916and all of these new factories are dis
trbuted throughout the Rocky Mountain irrigated
This industry is directly responsible for an in
crease in population of not less than million peo-
pie throughout the Rocky Mountain region.
When it is realized that fully siNty-five per cent
of this increased population producers Of the beet
consumers, the unusual economic value of the beet
sugar industry is at once apparent.
National price fixing of sugar is a temporary Mill
The price fixed for sugar fixes the price of beets
the price of bees fixes the price of labor and land and
need of the sugar fixes in our minds the necessity
of growing the maximum beet acreage that the pres
ent factory capacity can convert into sugar-and it
may be up to the Government to fix the acreage to be
grown and fix it SO that the farmers will have the
necessary labor for it, In fact the Government should
fix sugar production as to equal our sugar con-
sumption at the earliest possible date.
If a self sustaining sugar basis within
the next twenty years the beet sugar industry will be
producing livestock feed in the form of byproducts
annually in sufficient quantities to fatten enough
sheep to make procession, all wool if not yard
wde-long enough to more than circle this old globe
of ours
And fattenng stock in successful compe-
titon with the best cornfed of the ralnbelt as
great by-product of this industry.
But doing more than that, too
We are learning for ourselves, and proving to the
United States that the soil and climate and rgated
lands of the Rocky Mountain region remarkably
suited to this modern phase of the sugar industry
For beet sugar, bear in mind, is modern sugar
And it is well worth our while people to know
that by the encouragement and increase of the beet
sugar industry will be helping to make the United
States economically independent of all the world.
That fact should be part of our daily thought and
strong conviction.
We are thinking nationally" in America these
days
The United States is not a series of associated but
separate peoples. 1t is Unit
There is no longer North and South or East and
West; there is only US.
And the whole world is realizing that
nighy factor in its peace its freedom and its Justice
But we have to be true to ourselves too.
We have to Justify the figure making in