Show TO THE PUBLIC my attention was wae yesterday called to the following article which recently appeared in the democratic newspapers new papera as af j a quotation from a speech by 0 W powers then Mr Cannon denounced the sugar trust but I 1 opine that his hie denunciation denu was wa about an aa sincere as aa are the tears of the crocodile I 1 put some questions que atlon to mr cannon at Spring springville ville the be other evening they were printed in the salt bait lake herold herald but as mr cannon has baa not yet seen fit to answer thew them I 1 again repeat them as they refer to a subject upon which the people of utah have the right to have some information mr cannon is the manager of a corporation called the utah company I 1 want to ask mr cannon whether that corporation Is a utah concern in anything except its name have utah people any other interest in it than to the extent of the saltair beach and railway property mind and the coalville Co alville coal minee does not joseph F smith as well as some others hold shares for the benefit of outsider outside rb Is not the corporation a sugar trust scheme and does not dot end and is not the sugar trust to furnish the money was there not a representative senta tive of the sugar trust in utah when the papers were signed here in provo a few weeks ago Is not J F clarkson a sugar trust mao man and was tie be not here in the interest atthe of the trust a short time ago Is it not a apart part of the scheme that the sugar trust through the utah company shall lease the sugar works at lehi ard and close them docio Is not dot the sugar trust to keep the republicans of utah la IQ CaMP campaign funds and in the event that the republican pub licaD party controls our first legislature are not fraba J cannon and colonel isaac trumbo to be elected united states senators as an the friends and agents of the sugar trust trusi every insinuation in the foregoing which seeks to connect the utah company or myself in any way with the sugar trust is in false I 1 have not now and never had any association or inter est with the sugar trust nor has it ever had any association or interest with me in behalf ot of the utah company and myself I 1 charge that judge powers had no substantial reason tor asking such questions and aad that his bis motive was to injure the enterprise which the utah company has undertaken it this were not his motive and it if he have any sense of decency be will after reading the subjoined sub joined card from the dir ectore publicly correct the impression attempted to be created by his hi innuendoes J CANNON SALT LAKE october 29 1894 TO THE PUBLIC there to is not a scintilla of truth in the statements which have been and are being made in certain quarters concerning the utah company the utah company la Is a utah con cero cern in every respect 1 every dollar of its stock to Is owned by utah poodle people viz wilford woodruff george Q cannon joseph P F smillie james jack NOW nephi W Clay clayton tons william W cluff and frank J cannon the utah company is in not connected in any manner with wilh the sugar trust it has baa had bad no aea dealings linge with that trust or with any of its reprise representatives a natives ta tives we cannot say may whether any representatives senta tives 0 of f the eu auar gar trust were or are in utah we oo go not know thew them the innuendoes which associate any of the undersigned undersigner under signed with a proposition to cleot eleC sugar trust senators are utterly groundless aud without any degree of truth 40 no papers bonne connected sted with the U utah tab company were signed at provo at any time the articles of incorporation were signed at salt lake city filed in the public effice here and their con tents ioie been current knowledge ever since we have no knowledge that the lob lebl I 1 sugar works are to te I 1 e closed down we should much deplore such a calamity in our judgment the insinuations recently made against the business purposes purpose of the utah company or it its members are not only unjust to them but injurious to the community whose redemption the utah company to is seeking to aid WILFORD WOODRUFF GEORGE Q CANNON JOSEPH F SMITH J JAMES ame JACK NEPHI W CLAYTON WILLIAM W CLUFFS FRANK J CANNON SALT LAKE lair CITY oct 29 1894 |