The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-23

money with the bank to be used IL
loaning money to the farmers Il
pay for their farm labor, and thai
it is an advantage to the sugar com
pany, the bank and the farmers
That if a farmer is considering the
matter of signing a contract with
the independent company, somebody
informs him that il he does tie uI
with this new company he will be
called upon Immediately to settle
with the bank and clean up his loans
Now, of course, I do not believe the
story, because l think that would be
taking an unfair advantage of the
farmer, and do not believe that the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company would
resort to anything unfair. They
have always treated the people right
and especially the people in their
own territory. The Bank Of Aber-
deem is above anything of the kind,
and so they would not slip the farm
er any such deal as that. But as
l said in the beginning, somebody
is always giving wings to some dis
agreeable story about one, and the
average man does not believe it I'M
til it is proven.
Did Same Way at Rigby
According to the story brought out
by the federal trade commission at
Rigby, they had that same kind of
experience with the Independent
company there, known as the Beet
growers Sugar company. Whenever
the Independents tried to write con-
tracts with the farmers, somebody
would go to the farmers and claim
to be representing the Utah-Idaho
Sugar company, and would tell the
farmer some very embarrassing
things to keep him from signing a
contract with the independents, or
in case he had signed, this person
claiming to be acting for the Utah
Idaho Sugar company, would try to
get him to tear up and repudiate
his contract and make contract
with the old company that had al
WAYS treated them right.
Will Never Turn Wheel
One of the things they used to
tell them was that this new con-
Germ was just stock-jobbing scheme
and that they would never build
factory. But as the work of erect
ing the factory and installing the
machinery went on, they changed
the story to say that the machinery
was no good that it would not make
sugar; it was only made to sell; and
that they would never turn
wheel"
Now l don't know that the Utah |
Idaho Sugar company's men ever
said anything like that, but the rec
ord shows that witnesses under oath |
old the federal trade commission |
hat certain men in that country had !
;aid those things to them in all Sc
'iousness, and the witnesses named |
he people who circulated that kind
If SANDER against the sugar COM
ANY. Men who were selling stock
n the Beetgrowers' Sugar company
estified that those statements made
very difficult to keep on selling
took to get money to keep the work
# installation going on. That ex-
ression, "They will never turn a
Wheel" forms the foundation for the
tory | promised to tell you about
low George E. Hill pinched his
humb.
l am going to tell you all about
hat, but first I have to explain why
t is and how it is that they are
REGULATING that other story that Gov
rnor Hawley is mot so good a man
s he used to be-" Funny, isn't it,
ow men will go back on an old
riend just because he is an Off
er in company which they are try
1g to break!
(To Be Continued).