Show r n TY STATEMENT T Of IN REPLY TO SUGAR COMPANY AN ANSWER TO THE SUGAR COIn CO COIn COIn In tho the Examiner of tho the loth in start stanl tho tiro Sugar company conies comes out with a statement of its side Ihle of the he case It begins begin by hy enlarging upon tho benefits the tillers of tho the soil soli of those these parts have realized and mIC the part pall the sugar Industry has Ims played In lit the th development of county and vicinity We know tho the sugar su r fac factory factory tory has lias done dono much h toward making this arts a thriving district Xo No o one wishes to deny den this th is but bul do not sugar sual fac factories factorIes factories i tories produce like lie results in othor other localities In ht other othor counties in other I slates states The farmers appreciate these thele benefits It must bo conceded also that they tire the of the he t sugar sl ar company have hn e ese seen scon se n to it c that they tho have hac not gone with empty emt pockets If IC the county In Ing general g has been benefited the hold holders ers cra cr of the Ogden Oden Sugar stock have hae been heen thrice benefited A few summers alter after the erection of the tho Ogden Og en plant its stock was sell selling sellIng ing at over double Its pat par value so sowell soWell well was it remunerating its promoters ers erR No io other othor sugar ual stock k in this vi vicinity i has made such stich skyward sl lumps jumps In the same samp amount of time as ns that of the Amalgamated Xo No 0 other sugar company compan far farol or near Is paying pa thin tho beet producer so low a price rice for the tho th raw material fial Little wonder won er that the stock of oC this corporation has always shown pronounced skyward sk ward tendon tendencies clot cies Is it Company Gets Benefits Benefit All the farmers of this section have oa ve contended for Is a more equitable di iii division vision Islon of the tho profits accruing from tho the sugar industry Such a illusion has been made by hy sugar sug r concerns in other regions without bickering Then let letus letu letus us u look at this thing tiring from another viewpoint ri David Eccles Eccle and his hi as associates are the parties to consider themselves lucky First l of or all not nol the county count for being the tho first to get geta a n factory on tho the ground In III this belt bell bellof of heels beets For If they the had not the company or 01 some other would soon have hae pounced upon it and received the lire golden stream that thatIs Is now flowing flo Into the coffers coffon of or tho Amalgamator Amalgamated Mr Ir Eccles can Cnn rest resL assured as assured assured that this favored spot would I not have hae gone olle begging for long for 01 capital to develop It iL Eastern capi capital I tal galore IK it lying around loose loo e at this moment awaiting awal ding just junt such auch fertile fields as ns this VIII this be the cud curl of oC this sugar controversy Supposing an eastern company campau should decide to take advantage of this quarrel of the growers and grind grinders ers err and set a lar largo large o plant down Iowa by b the side sille of the tho Eccles plant Where would the Jatter he with willI the hc I farmers of oC this part after a I the protracted dis dissatisfaction dl dissatisfaction satisfaction over OI prices of beets third that lI IL I tho the farmers have felt fon for fOl a long longtime longtime time lime They Th would be nowhere As to Other Crops In the article of or the th sugar com company company company pany referred to above the sugar com company company cony pany parry people say they have hc to ship part rt of their product as far east casl as the Missouri river rh er Even then wo we say they have ha vo enough h of o an 10 edge over oer and an above the coat cost to pay good divi dividends dt at least we vve see that their steel Is a most desirable one with in ill investors estor s even after shipping 51 to Mis Missouri lIs They say sar the beet checks com coin coining ing Jn to the growers early in I the tho season gason make mal them flush Irish and they need not sell bell hay and aird grain till Spring Yes not irot then oven even generally speaking For tho the horse work early earh in the thc sea season ea son soil is so hard on tho the beet fields that most of lIe tho the farmers are arc relieved of I the th responsibility of having to mar market tel hot any an hay Spring or Fall Wo We also that potatoes are ar moro more than 50 60 cents couts a hundredweight now say twice or three times s that Again It Il IK IR claimed many man farmers have gotten sot ten out of oC the hole hoe by b raising heNs beets Alno Also soma of them have hae got sot gotten gotten ten deeply Into the hole ho raising beets A farmer Carmer of Hooper r recently stated that In he was wa s In in the hole holo when he start started ed cd d raising beets it is in it il yet Qt and Is getting gating no hotter boHer Hooper Paid For Spur The Tho Th sugar suar company co milan article seem scours to evince surprise at nl Hoopers being in III this For or It nays Ia 9 It il was wag not long since Hooper com coin j J J NOTICE TO BEET GROWERS As A the In ln the different din have hac recently met and are still sill decided c riot not to grow S ow s and as ns the tho Sular ar company has mach mado us un no con co concession cession cs ln w wm lever except the sliding slid In scale contract which l Is Ir i no better belter than we formerly f bad we your commit suggest g Ht that you take lake no notice of any report othor othar than those that hunt come from you committee ui 11 l you proceed at once on e to t arrange for r Hf other crops lour our committee l e wil wake malre public reports front from nm ti at tc l tt time lIm through h tho tiro columns of DC The O Orl n Morning Ex Ext t cr J 18 S ROBSON F M r BELNAP F H WRIGHT J A FIFE ALBERT GREEN r I of killing her horses hauling beets so far tar So the company c helped to get a railroad spur built to Hoop Hooper er et I But Bill ul tho the article is silent ns os to the fact that In hr paid for the said spur in hard bard money mone It cost to build the spurn spur about and aud of this imprint fi 1 the company fur furnished only about ab ut OO The Tho balance balanco was wa paid by It the he farmers but tho the su so sugar gar tar company compan joust have havo credit for fo loaning the farmers the th necessary money n one without charging any an Interest The profits realized by h the farmers was as the privilege o of supplying beets over the tyre spur paying 20 cents per ton for freight while the sugar compan s profits came cume from tho the increased ton tonnage singe nage of beets heets Now ow again so few cars car cal were on the tine ground that during much of tho the hauling season last Fall It was almost Impossible to get within gunshot of tire scales for COl beet wagons waiting wafting for the hour to get unloaded Lastly Mr David Pingree field sup superintendent deplores the fact that the tho I homely hamel beet of this section Is Jg Inferior In quality to the average beet and that when they ther run ruu up to toIS tois IS 1 c find and 20 per cent coat tho the sugar com compan compan company pan pany can an afford to give Sho a high price f I r thorn them Although we have never heard pf p this before we must remind the tho le superintendent ltd and Ild the I company compan that thin tho matter mattel of tho the beets boots running up to 1 or 01 20 POT pat cent has I nothing to do with Uio ho Issue All AlI the growers of this section ask Is la that thit th tire bo ho o paid what other othor growers ago aiu paid for a ikc per cent of purity Thin I only ooh have hare they tho demanded Shall Sha Shat their t appeal be heard by b the tho Amalga Amalgamated I mated Sugar company n or shall Rhall It H n l bo hI made rondo so 50 lout loud that tl t honeyed hOIl n on of tho the east will heart t it and an answer Iw it It is is for far David aunt and iris his hi company to say sa Signed BEET BEg GROWERS ROWERS WHY WE VE DONT DON i FEEL FEELL LIKE L GROWING RO G BEETS To the Editor of the Examiner In your our number of tho tiro appeared an nn article Why by They Thc Should Ralso Beets ets To fo you OI as well as a to all other people who understand stand but ono one sloe of the question the company has I given glon a n very er plausible story which makes makos tho the farmers far appear as avaricious lOlls ious malcontents Unfortunately for forus forIS forus us IS wo we have allowed this Idea to grow In hr tho minds of honest people un unchecked unchecked checked until we are arc looked upon ith contempt Your You say tire the th farmers side aide sl e has been given n and It IE is but Just the he company should be lie heard We Bay Anion Amen Mf If df they th the will confine thoin them seh es to facts and figures we we will figures dout dont t He lie Jl But DUl Josh Billings Hillings says S Damned Dammed Mara liars will Jig fig Jigger ger Is IB not disposed to 10 go into Inti print Since S nce wired when They The rho wont sign their names to an article but they will put up an a I unmerciful load 10 11 o of oC stuff sturt and ask you rou people to come orne around and interview them and sad ad to say sa tho the papers swallow swall w It Twelve years ago when that factory was vas built hullt wo we were wore just coming out of the worst panic the country had over had Land Laud was worth wor h 10 per Ier Iera acre a re wheat JO 10 cents hay Imy Ira mens menfI wages when they the could got ot work Today rolls land is worth OO hay hoy 1300 t J r 2 wheat about si 51 00 Is the factors factor re I sensible for fI all this It has furnished its share sharo today and for fOl several Tho The country Is I passing passim through tho ho most moat mo t prosper prosperous Otis OilS period in in Us its history In n every ever line lino 01 of We will admit the tha fact tact that it has done a groat great deal of good and all realize tho tiro fact that if It ItI I closes down It will vill be beJ a calamity But you say 1 If that is 18 the case why wh do you want to close it down We Wc dont want to but hut we dont donl feel reel as though wo we ought alight to be bo the only ones to make mako a sacrifice WW WI Submit Cause Our cause aUie Is just and we arc are will wiH willing willing ing to it to lo any set of men that live Iho i of occupation We f know that every industry is a great and wo We wish IRh there were mere more Our factories and othor things have ha vc done clone wonders for 01 us liS and as long as we can cnn live lIc we are willing willingto to lot lel Iho live As you ou say sa j 12 years cars ago ngo many man people popl were sold out for Cor troves taxes but hul was It because we had Karl no sugar fac factory factor factory tory tor At that time men who had large largo hay har fields if IC they could raise the dollar could gel get all the tiro men they ther the wanted for fort 1 per pel day da Today Tocla they thc must beg fOr help helli At nt t per day da Why airy Wh Not just because we wo have hao the tho fac factory factor factory tory tor but because the tho they have gone somewhere else Now as to the fac lac factory factory tory ton being unable to raise the price of beets 12 years oars ago a o that factory factor was built for 3 OO O three years can atter alter which they the had made sufficient profit to water tho tiro stock Block dollar for dollar making malting the thc factory worth or giving each enell shareholder two shares for one besides paying pa dividends just tho tiro same and anti today toda that stock Is s worth per share or In 12 yearn earn they ther have for foJ 1 and Mr r David ald Eccles admitted d that the time 2 Invested paid them thom G t 23 2 3 per pel cent Fur Further Further Further ther on in ill your om arll lc the company compan offers us us the tw flat rate Just what we have havo had h d for lor 12 2 years ear IGO x 60 less 25 5 cents per porton ton freight or tho the slid sliding slidIng sliding ing cafe f that would slide only one oue way Wa and that down What is Wanted W That contract ct would give ge us at al tho the host less 25 5 cents for freight for fur 14 Id J per D cent t beets IH ls and as fiS low as ast 1 t Which would you ou take If IC they tho had offered the slide tho the other way wa we might have haJ taken token It The corn com company rom pan pany nays gays it It has taken all beets re regardless regardless of quality qualify That Is true But how ninny many went wont below tho the standard and how as art high as IS 18 per pr percent percent cent Jt Jl suit their ther purpose to tell that part pail Again thoy tho have hlo to topa pay pa for a l poorer quality of heels boote h el In Utah time than in Idaho or Colorado The agricultural department Tcp ii at Washing tOn tan sept sent out a a bulletin Just a few fow years rears ago that gave Utah credit for lor haing tho the best saccharine beets heets inthe In Inthe Inthe the United States Again A aln A committee com committee of six waited walled on Mr I Eccles They The wore were w re by no means large grow growers growers growers ers That Is true truo but they tire the represented represented seated 98 per cent of oC the acreage and growers growels of Weber roher county notwithstanding notwithstanding standing tho tirO three e or four they sing singled singled singled led out ou as not kickers Average TOO Low Now as to tho tiro gentleman from one of the that gentle gentleman gentleman man was Quo ono of the worst kickers In Weber chor county la to few years rears ago and was appointed by h Iris hiM people to ask for fora forn a n few fen favors and md played pla ed the Judas Just aa as D he says we will Ho He Judges us by br his standard But la tOot him wo we say sar we 1 IU wo we have hwo men this time limo Now Nov Xo wo we cone como to the wheat wheal state statement statement ment meat their average of oC 30 bushels la is lafar lafar far too low Ground that will pro produce produce I duce duco III lU tons of boots beets will bring not I less els than 11 h bushes busheR and at 90 DO cents I after expenses would leo leave about 28 8 i j Instead for Cor of 15 But Dut we wo dont care I I that thal as 18 our wives and daughters have hac to help us U make the tho I A Again tho tiro cost on a 1 crop informant says would bo be about j i 35 when if It we figure fi o ure HA nd the sugar r company compan docs does we would como out with less than thair wages Again Many Man Manof I of or iho tho farmers have gotten out of the hole halo Yes and many man of 0 their wives I I I and children have hwe gone to tho the come cemo I ter through exposure In their anxiety to pay olT ott ol the mortgages Wives and daughters have havo gone into inlo the fields to toI I top beets heets when it was unfit for men mell mento mellI I to 10 he be there What for To try tr and save mc what they thoy tho had bad worked for so 80 hard bard all summer Loading Facilities F I r t Young women dressed in overalls i crawled on their hands h and knees day I II in and day da oat That Is how a man rna 1 I can con save saye his 72 7 Yes we can make money mone if it wo we count not nol the coat cORl of making We Vc have asked for foi broad and they the have given glen us 18 a stone stono We Vc I have repeatedly asked the company compon to give us liS some accommodations at nt pur I loading places Your You who pass Imas any an of o I I them West Weber Welter i I Hooper Warren I or 01 any other have havo we e got gotthem gotthem I Ithem them At some we have hav had to un unload unload load loarl our beets into cars nine feet feel high from the bottom of o tho wagon i box At Hooper last year tho the farmers farm farmers ers ors lost 1000 days in tho the busiest part of or the tho harvest because they unload At Plain City It was all allright allI allright I right only we had to dump our beets heets in the public square right in 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