The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-16

| were ready. They said they were,
and the court granted the injunc-
ton.
Between Two Mills
Then it was up to Saren Hansen
to make good on his sale to the Ida
no Falls men or to the Blackfoot
men, and the cost of the delay was
his. He held a session with the
Blackfoot crowd and agreed to pay
them $500 to release him. He
then tried several maneuvers to get
them to make the release before he
pushed the money across, but in each
case they countered and held him
fast Mr.. Biethan became SO incens-
ed at his trickery that he was in
favor of throwing him out and re-
fusing to deal with him any longer,
but the others prevailed on him,
to hold his temper and extract the
money from Hansen, which they fl
nally did. Then the work went on
at Lincoln, and the Blackfoot men
found that they had their organiza-
tion so badly shot to pieces by the re-
ports that had been spread regarding
the way they had failed, that it SEEM
ed almost impossible to revive the
interest of their hackers. Every
body seemed Disguised, more or less
misinformed, and ready to back out
of everything he had agreed to if
he could find any pretext for it, and
there was plenty Of pretext, espe-
cially in the fact that having no
factory this side of Berlin, and
there was NO need of raising sugar
beets that year il there was mo
mill to. grind them ..-
Blocked Our Efforts
Mr.. Cutler and Mr.. Havemeyer
did not want to see the Blackfoot
factory 60 in, but | did not know it
then. ! did not at that time know
how they worked to stop the pro-
posed factories at Payette and Nam
pa, but as l look back over their
activities from present information,
how the Utah-Idaho Sugar company
worked to block the Beet Growers
Sugar company at Rigby, and as /
re-read what T.. R. Cutler wrote to
Mr.. Havemeyer at the time of this
trouble between Idaho Falls and
Blackfoot, 1t is easy for me to see
why the damaging reports got SO
distorted and spread SO thoroly as
to almost disorganize the Blackfoot
crowd.
During their troubles they picked
one of their number to 60 east and
see If he could not find second
hand mill that could be bought and
moved, and they paid his expenses
and a stack of other bills already
contracted out of this $1,000 they got
from Soren Hansen. They we're in
sore need of money and backing
from somebody whose influence
would help them, and here is where
they made themselves the butt of
good joke.
Tried Church Influence
About half of this crowd of Black
foot heroes who held out till they
had their opponents beaten in court
were Mormons and the rest were
ti-Mormons. In those days most
of us were one or the other, and
had no better sense than to wish
that the Jews might have to eat
pork and that the Mormons would
have to give up some Of their be-
liefs. Matters Of religion got in
to business and politics, and each
side tried to throw all the others
out. One Of the things that the
anti-Mormons roared about was
church influence in business and
politics, and yet when this bunch
wanted to float big stock propo-
sition they selected H. B. Nielsen,
W. D. Trego and Jerry Cowles to 60
straight to Salt Lake City and knock
for admission at the front door of
the Beehive. When they finally were
admitted for conference with Pres
ident Joseph F.. Smith relative to
getting the Mormon church to take
some stock in the Blackfoot sugar
factory, Mr.. Nielsen was spokes-
man. From the time they left the
hotel to the time they were shown
into the presence of Mr.. Smith, Mr..
Nielsen's attitude grew momentarily
less aggressive, and when he was
seated across the table from the
president Of the church, he was the
Of humility. He pre-
scented their appeal in q way that in |
dicated that he was too much en-
to even believe in it him
self, and w. d. Trego, a well-known |
in politics, and Jerry |