The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-04
power and by man-power, and one
of the representatives of the Utah

luaHO sugar COMPANY, IHc COMpdHy
that has always treated people right,
should come to you as friend and
tell you that this new tangled ma
chinery was not sugar machinery at
all, and that it was merely made to
sell in a stock<jobbing scheme by
selfish promoters and that you had
better tear up your beet contract and
sign over your beet acreage to the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company and be
protected; If he told you that your
stock in the new company was no
good and that you had better sell it
if you had chance and take any
thing you could get for it because the
company was going to collapse
pretty soon; if he assured you that
the new company would s'neyer turn
a wheel" and that if you did not
sign up now with the Utah-Idaho
Sugar company and let them have
your beets while the letting was
good; if he told you that this offer
was only good i'll tomorrow morning
at nine o'clock and that if you
wanted to sell your beets to them
at any time after that you would be
refused the privilege If man whom
you had known for a good while had
talked to you in that way and was
serious about it and did his best to
get you to sign your name on the
dotted line of the contract he held
before you, wouldn't you feel con-
siderably troubled about it?
The Inquiry Proved 1t
At the investigation by the federal
trade commission now under way in
New York City, the same commission
that had sittings at Washington, D.
c., and at Salt Lake City, San Fran
cisco and Rigby, testimony was given
under oath indicating that men
claiming to represent the Utah-Idaho
Sugar company said and did a multi
tude of such things as l have enum-
Grated, to get people to quit doing
any business with the independent
company. That was long before this
man Kicks at Pocatello brought suit
against the Independent company to
try to throw them into the hands of
receiver last February that we
were all so mad about That little
suit was only one of scores of things
that happened indicating the same
purpose. The lots and lots Of tes
timony given, convinced me beyond
all doubt, that the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company has been working on some
unfair plans to secure and hold con-
troll Of the farmers of the Snake
river valley.
Wanted To Be Assessor
You know I told you about the
Southern Pacific dominating politics
in California and putting men in
office who would favor them in bust
ness? And men who did not con-
slider the interests of the Southern
Pacific first did not find the run
ming so good? And told you, one
time, about H. o. Hardness getting
to be county commissioner in Bing-
ham county and making a pile of
money for himself by keeping down
the assessment on his herds? Well,
there is man up Snake river who
ran for nomination of assessor, and
during the campaign wrote the head
office of the Utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany asking for donation to con-
duct his campaign, adding that he
would, when elected, be in position
to be worth money to them. A man
who is crooked enough to do thing
like that is foolish enough to let it
leak out. The enemies of the sugar
company say that they wrote to one
of their trusted men in that terri
tory and told him to go to the can
didate and fix it with him, and to
warn him against putting anything
like that into writing. The friends
of the sugar company say that the
company would not stoop to any
thing of that kind and If they would
not, they are setting a better ex-
ample than the management of the
old Southern Pacific of California
used to do.
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