| Show does it really fay the complete returns of sugar beets delivered at the lehi sugar factory shows about forty three thousand tons grown in utah county we believe the factory has been paying the farmers four dollars per ton outside of tho freight that means dis the farmers or about for every man woman and child in the county besides that much directly gained by the farmers the whole state has been benefited by the usual reduction in sugar of about twenty five cents per sack every year when the home product reaches the market just that amounts to can only be approximated governor wells in his last message reports that the factory this season has produced about pounds of sugar which would be sacks that he says is half the sugar produced in the state the reduction in price to the consumers while that lasts would be gained and twenty cent reduction per sack that is a net gain to them but the full price per sack say five dollars would mean saved to the state that heretofore went abroad for the purchase of foreign made sugar in all we are safe in saying that the one little sugar factory eaves the people of the state every year about a half a million dollars now what did it coat 0 o start that factory we have not the figures at hand of what the factory received from the general government under the bounty of the mckinley law but utah paid very little of that bounty even indirectly but the law of 1830 passed by the territorial legislature set aside as we remember it ro go to the producers of beet sugar a period of two years the factory we believe got all of that bounty there had been much talk of a factory long previous to the passing of that bounty bill by the legislature but it was the prospect of the bounty we dare say that promoted the enterprises there would been no sugar factory if no bounty had been offered so by the state paying out thirty thousand dollars it gained an institution which every year saves it half a million dollars and the con eumers of sugar about the amount of the bounty each year in direct profits Is not an institution of that kind worth paying a little to obtain the pioneers of the state thought that policy deiy profitable and from the days of brigham young there was no question raised by the mor mons against the wisdom of promoting home industries with public money everything made at home they regarded as a direct saving to the community worth paying a little to obtain and hence the many bounty acts on the statute books for which all voted even men who afterwards became democrats favoring fay oring them the same good business sense in the policy then pursued commends itself to the people of utah today they are at heart projectionists protectionists and though there may be temporary is desues befogging the political horizon as was the case last year still the people of this state can always be counted by a big majority as always being m favor of promoting home industry |
