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Show Beet Growers Send Protest To Hoover . The following is a copy of the letter which was sent to Herbert Her-bert C. Hoover, Federal -Food Administrator in Washington, last . week by the beet growers assembled in the Commercial Club rooms; The letter is a very fair presentation of the dispute between be-tween the growers and the factories. It follows : "One hundred and twenty-five sugar beet farmers, residents l, of Utah County, Utah, in mass meeting assembled, protest against a price of $8.50 per ton for beets the current year on the grounds that the said price is insufficient to pay the cost of production. We protest the action of the sugar companies in Utah in seeking to induce the production of beets at the aforesaid price by appeals to pariotic motives on the part of the farmers or by and through the use of the names of the national or state food administrator. ! We resent the inference that the national or state food administrator ad-ministrator or the Federal Government or ihe patriotic citizens I of the nation or the soldier boys who are fighting to establish the j principles of democracy and justice in the blood-soaked trenches ! of France, require or expect the farmers of Utah to grow beets at a loss while the companies which manufacture the said beets j into sugar make large prof its. I "We demand that the sugar companies pay a price assuring 1 ! the farmer reasonable profits in the. production of beets or submit facts to the government showing that they are sharing losses with the farmer under present conditions. ':.:'.v-:;: ; .' "For our government we will, when necessary, produce beets at a loss, but we refuse to do so for sugar companies which have made unconscionable profits from our labors in the past, and who would continue to fatten at the expense of our patriotism. ; "Unless our sugar companies manifest sufficient patriotism to bear their share of the burden of producing sugar necessary to meet the national requirements or our government finds means to compel them to serve their country, we shall feel absolved from all responsibility for failure to produce sugar beeta in 1918. , - |