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Show CHINESE AND DAGOES. Our Democratic friends are finding it hard work to make headway against the triumphant sugar beet. Theyhava got so far as to concede that the establishment estab-lishment of great sugar beet plants ought to be a good thing for Utah farmers, but some of their newspapers and orators are now trying to minimize this, truth by asserting that the Lehi ! factory proposes to raise all its own beets and to employ Chinese and Dago labor in the work. This statement is based on the fact that the managers of the factory have secured land and planted some beets ou their own. account. ac-count. The assertion is not only a campaign lie, but it does great injustice to the enterprising citizens of Utah who are building up a splendid industry here. It is true that the sugar factory has provided itself with some land. It is true that the company is raising beets. It is not true that they use Chinese or Dago labor. Not only that, but it is not true that they prefer or intend to raise beets themselves if the farmers are willing and able to attend to the beet raising for them. When a company invests half a mill, ion dollars in a sugar factory the success suc-cess of the enterprise demands that they 6hall know that there will be an abundant supply of beets. The raising of this crop s a new industry in this territory and in order to absolutely insure in-sure the supply of beets it is necessary for the factory to control some land. We ar6 informed that the purpose of the manufacturers is to have all the beets raised by the farmers of Utah and to pay them a good price for their crop. That is the way the business is generally general-ly conducted and that is one reason why the establishment of the sugar industry in-dustry has been a very great blessing in other states and other countries. When the raising of beets is thoroughly thor-oughly understood, and when the farm- ers of Utah are able to supply the demand, de-mand, sugar factories will undoubtedly confine their efforts to manufacturing, and hundreds of farmers throughout the territory will have the benefit of this new and profitable crop. The talk about Chinese and Dagoes hs its source in the desperation of Democratic managers. They have exhausted ex-hausted their factand are now drawing draw-ing on their imaginations. |