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Show SUGAR WAR STARTS AND CHEAPER ARTICLE MAY BE OUTCOME OF FIGHT cut in the price of cane sugar means a corresponding cut in the price of beet sugar. Will Imer Prices. Should the fight continue for any length of time ther is no question but what it will mat'iially affect the price of local sugar stock. That there is a movement on font to prevent such a fight is admitted ' by more than one stockholder in the local companies as well as by representatives of the trust. Against this is the statement of the Hawaiian people: "We are In the bii8inc?-s aixl intend to May in it." The Hawaiian Sugar company Is In the sugar business, and intends to stay in it. We cxiect to get our share of the local cane sugar trade. Ve have no fight with the beet sugar peo pie. F. J. FABIAX, local representative representa-tive of the Hawaiian Sugar impnny, to THK TELEGRAM. That there are prospects of a long and bitter fight in the sugar camp is admitted by those who best understand the situation. For years the Western Refining company com-pany has controlled the local market on the price of cane sugar. This company com-pany has also dictated the price of beet sugar manufactured by the sugar companies com-panies of Utah and Idaho, together with th beet sugar factory at La Grande, Or. Part of the Tnit. The Western Refining company is a part of the great sugar trust. This statement may not be admitted by any officer of the trust, but it is a fact, nevertheless. When the I'tah Sugar company opened its factory at Lehi the people r,f I'tah were given to understand that it would be independent of all other sugar manufactories: that it would reduce re-duce the price of sugar in this State. "Support home industry." was the cry that was made, and that was the sign that was put on the first bag of sugar that was turned out by the Lehi factory. This bag of sugar was placed on exhibition. After a Long Fight. Tt may be well to remember that the I establishment of bet sugar factory, with the bounty offered by the Governor, Govern-or, was accomplished in Utah after a j long and bitter fight. Arthur Stayner, deceased, led the I fight for the sugar industry in I'tah, not only for Government bounty on j sugar, btit for a Territorial bouniv of one cnt per pound on every p.nm 1 j manufactured in Utah. . The strongest opponent to both of ; these bounties Prof. J. H. I aui. i lat" president . f the L. D. S. university ! of this city. j The Lehi factory was established without a'Territorial bounty, but with the Government bounty of three cents per pound. Would liOwer Prices. As already stated, the argument that was used throughout Utah was that the beet sugar industry in the State would reduce the price of sugar to the consumer In this State. The argument ar-gument of tiie advocates of the Utah Sugar company has never been good. Kver since the first sack of sugar was turned out from the Lehi factory the -price of the beet sugar output In this State, as well as in Idaho and Oregon, has lecil controlled, body, lioots and breeches, by the sugar trust. Prices have been raised or lowered as it suited the trust. It has always been a case of "you sell at the price j which wc name or we will come in and ruin you." One Fight It Made. Only once within the last ten years has the sugar trust had a fight on its I hands; that was with the Arbuckle j coffee people about seven years ago. The fight was a bitter one, but the coffee people had to come to terms :at j least, .they did come to terms and the j trust ruled supreme. ! The New Trust Fighters. The Hawaiian Sugar company, the latest fighters of the trust, occupy a different position from that of the Arbuckle people; they are not depending depend-ing on individual planters nor private refineries; they own their own plantations planta-tions and refineries which during the present season will turn out more than 350,000 tons of sugar, practically all of which will come to the United States. The Hawaiian company is not seek- , ing competition in the Eastern markets mar-kets against Cuba and , Louisiana cane sugar, but' they propose to .get their share of the Western trade. At the present time beet sugar is selling at 15.10 per sack of 100 pounds, so called, but which in reality contains but ninety-eight pounds. Cane sugar sells for 15.30 per hundred. Every |