Show Oh Mijar Ihe October run of the Lehi sugar works i amounted to 763rUO pounds Taat entitles the company to 57834 bounty from the territorial treasury Secretary SELLS has drawn warrants for that sum and in addition ad-dition the company will receive from the United States treasury 15G < 33 mailing a total for the month of 523305 That is avery i a-very nice little sugar plum by way of a I bounty In September tho run was not soI I large the aggregate amount in bounties netting the company butS3934 suQluient sugar is made this year to claim the rest of the Utah bounty a little over lOJO more will be drawn from the territorial treasury and more than 20OU1 additional from the United States treasury Nobody grudges this money to the sugar company but most peopie think it will have bad enough of the public funds by the time all the 30000 appropriated by tue Utah legislature legis-lature is drawn which means also 00103 from tho national bounty appropriation or 590000 in all A disgruntled contemporary tries t > alarm the farmers with the false cry that The chances are the Utah Sugar company I will have to io out of business as the farmers cannot afford to raise beets to i compete with the German beot raiser J etc The answer to this is tile chances j are the Utah Sugar company wilt go on just tho same when the territorial bounty of one cent a pound is exhausted For in the first place top company is able to make sugar at a profit withou any bounty and if it cannot no private concern ought to be perpntually maintained at the public expense ex-pense and in the second place the national bounty of two cents a pound will remain > for some time to come so there is no reason rea-son in raising tho false alarm about ruin to the sugar industry II Another thing The beet growers do not come in for any share of this bounty local or national The sugar companies of the I country get their beets at as low a figure as possible Manufacturers do not divIde I with the farmers The agriculturist receives I re-ceives no bounty directly or indidi rectly He gets what the companies that buy his products choose to pay him nothing more If he cannot command enough to remunerate him for raising beets ho will grow something else on his land thats all He is not brought into competition with the German or any ether foreign beet grower It is true the American Ameri-can sugar companies come into competition with foreign companies but that is a question ques-tion of manufacture rather thau of agriculture agricul-ture and the beet grower will get no more per ton for his raw material whether the manufacturers reap large or small returns re-turns on their investments Anyhow the alarm will prove to be only one of the scares with which the Republicans Republi-cans are now seeking to terrify the misinformed misin-formed and which are as useless as they are absurd seeing that the election is past and they arc of no value even au Republican I Republi-can political deceptions |