The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-23
Beets, Politics and Progress
Believing All You Hear
By Byrd Irego
CHAPTER VI.

Believing All You Hear
There is always some disagreeabl
story going the rounds about some
body. Just now ii is the Utah-Ida
no Sugar company, and the Bank o
Aberdeen. or course the averag
man when he hears a piece of Sian
der does not know whether it is tru'
or not. ! am just an average man
and | make it rule not to believ'
disagreeable stuff about people un
til it is proven.
Wait for the Proof
A man told me today that the Ida
no Independent Sugar company i.
trying to write beet contracts in the
Aberdeen country for the purpose o.
making them the basis of new sug
ar factory to be erected there fol-
the crop of 1921. 1t would do nc
harm to believe that much of the
story, because it sounds good, and
to the average man it spells prog.
ress and he approves. But the rest
of the story says that the Utah-Ida-
ho Sugar company are opposing it in
such ways as they can, trying to keep
the independent sugar company out
of what they call their territory
They claim it by right of discovery
and development, the same as each
of the European countries used to
claim slices of the western hemi-
sphere because they discovered it,
and they claim it by right of the
further fact that they have spent
some time and money introducing
the sugar beet in the Aberdeen coun-
try and teaching the farmers how to
raise them. They have built some
beet dumps along the line, and when
the Parkinsons acting for the Ec-
cles people three years ago tried to
place factory down that way and
were very busy writing beet contracts
all thru that country, the Utah-Ida-
men got busy doing the same thing.
They did all they could to divide
the business ana to divide public
opinion. They told people that
good old story that the territory was
theirs; that the old Utah-Idaho Sug-
ar company had always treated
item right and that the people
ought to stand by the old compa-
ny that had been so good to them.
The Eccles people were reminding
the farmers of how badly they had
been treated in the matter of beet
dumps and turning a deaf ear to
of several kinds, and the
men were meeting it by
promising them that the old COM
pany had just got to where it could
furnish them all these things that
they had been wanting and would
be glad to do the right thing. l was
out getting subscriptions to my old
newspaper, and when | bunked with
an Eccles man and ate dinner with
4 Utah-Idaho man and suppered with
IN Eccles man, and heard their diff
'erent stories all the way each day,
t became quite plain to me that
he Utah-Idaho men were using all
he arguments they could command |
o hold the people in line. Then |
When compromise was effected |
md the Utah-Idaho people bought |
tut the Eccles contracts and put in
he factory at Shelley, the prospects
or factory in the Aberdeen coun-
ry went glimmering. For three-t
ears no effort was made to rush the
actory for Aberdeen, unless it is
icing done right now when the in
dependent company gets to work
,mong them in their territory"
Information or SANDER
But have not told you all that
his man said to me in reciting the
lander about the Utah-Idaho Sugar
ompany. He says they are combat
ng the efforts of the Independent
ompany. He says that the old sug-
r company, have deposited some