Show SUGAR FIRST AND LAST I 1 I 1 la in the early fifties the writer was waa quite a novice in the church he had bad been baptized but was critically estimating the men and the principles advocated by them in the old town oi of liverpool england in the rank anti and file of that bianch there were some sia as good men and women as ever gathered into an organization many of these nave departed this life and are enjoy ing their heir reward 1 others after a season ot of well fell away and were known no more the leadin leading 9 men were in the main isa a queer lot queer in appearance and spirit pew few of them ever reached utah of those who did and rema remained inea faithful so far as the writer knows bishop john R winder to IB the only one now living A F mcdonald Mo Donalu now presiding in mexico had charge of that conference but of course was sent there by the due authorities thorl ties of toe entire british mis mission siou of the latter claw clan were the theu then young men apostle franklin D richards and his brother samuel Ban juel the former being in exceeding poor health in fact the critic suggested his case as aa one on whom to prove the efficacy of tho the ordinance ot of laying on hands for the healing of the sick assuming ting that no insurance company would take a three months lease ou on so precarious a looking life president richards Kic hards subsequently recovered and looks today vastly more like living than he did over forty years ago however it was waa not of men particularly that thought was then busy save as they and their utterances were the exponents of a system one too which bad more thau than a religious side to it though that might have been the lead the assumption of a would hardly have eul enlisted the attention of a young ardent and somewhat erratic stu student dont simply imply on that line cosmopolitan study a and ad observation saw evils in aci ety saw how bow little rulers cared or f the saw evils in individual man and noted here and there only desultory extorts nt at regeneration saw tue lie life of civilization with its shifting ideas of marriage and of responsibility uw that the religious world relegated co science the be philosophy of human health to the secularist the considers lion of political economy to the so 89 all effort for a change goin in the drift of things and to the philanthropist or ob charity arity the machinery of industry and the suppression of poverty there was wonderful in this presumptive blending of religion w with iab secular things in the new apostle alp ship something attractive in its ito man wor tier of work for temporal salvation as an well as for spiritual colonization iron ru aking mill factory found I 1 lug ug and growing ferem were a intimately discussed with temple building the trec erection tion ot of meeting houses bow eries erles aud public works as baptism was with the remission of sine abee a believer in vegetarianism and dun user ot of liquor or tobacco surprised query was waa nol noi unusual u in the tea parties of a yet strange people aud and emphatic utterance of apparent defect was quite in order it if any system of asserted revealed religion should fall fail in directing attention to the salvation of the physicals physical as well as aa salvation for the moral social industrial and spiritual at length the word of wisdom 1 came and this seemed to round what otherwise at the time was criticized criticised as incomplete president john taylor then of the was engaged in forming or enlarging a company for the making of sugar in these them valleys from the beet sugar of this kind had been sold by the writer during the latter years of apprenticeship made in france belgium and ireland and it was a question quest ioa of acute judgment and curiosity then in the as to who could determine and why which sample was from the cane and which from the beet it is in known today that the processes of that time were crude and expensive but there was something strangely sug suggestive cestive in seeing father wm win paul in liverpool making those boxes for the french beet seed need which were to P protect protect it from sea influences during a lengthy passage and then secure it for germination in the tar far off valleys of the great salt bait lakel lake after visiting france and purchasing supplies president taylor had called brother ellas elias morris from wales to his aid ands and placing him in charge of the he machinery on board ship it was finally on the way across the plains after many circumstances loss ot of cattle eto etc help was sent to green river biver by president young through brother A 0 smoot who on his arrival at that point noted time the dilapi bated condition of the teamsters and their outfit and asked what the paint ed ID D M C 11 meant on all the iron work this being unknown though it was intended tor for deseret manufacturing company he quickly said it meant D d miserable company after all there was more enterprise more forethought more soul in the spending of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for that machinery and seed for its transit from france to utah to in the first illetS in otance 1100 than has probably been exhibited since for the building of we the present factory however laudable and successful is as a mole hill in comparison to the mountain of the days of our poverty and ignorance and the nonsuccess non success of those early days redounds resounds red as much to the credit of those brave workers as triumph does to these the raising of beets then was a mystery to somi semi farmers farmer the nature of utah soil was unknown li irrigation was waa found to be indispensable size in the beets was looked upon as the all important thing and when the roots were found to tw tie over overcharged charged with alkali no chemistry known to the pioneers was adequate to its neutralization and so perished finally all effort from sheer exhaustion it is presumable that early success at alvarado in Califor california aided much in keeping up what little interest was found in utah for while brothers brayner Bt ayner madsen and others had made sugar from sorg sorghum lium and syrup in particular ti the old sugar house was an ever present remonstrance against any great attempt to secure sugar from beete the writer off and on for many years through abe press kept alive by quotation and argument some little sentiment as well as giving informs lion in regard to the same subject B but ut until the conversion of brother arthur stayner the results were simply pro his success with oane cane and bla to indomitable perseverance finally had its influence in developing the idea and creating the factory at lebi leba although its success may be due to others brother elias eliae morris was waa engaged as mason for the work of the old company not being a ugar augar man but he was witness to its apparent failure and it seems a justification by providence that he should from sick sickness aio kness Dess have visited Cali california fornias investigated sugar reported here then been one of a delegation to port fort scott for sorghum to alvarado for beets and finally taken a prominent part in the erection of the lehi lebl factory and labor in connect connection iop with others for its success enough at least to merit for him the cognomen ol 01 the apostle of the sugar industry of utah we may in our j jubilance jubilance ubi lance ignore t hk bit past may want to forget it may deem it a failure perchance perc bance and with the be grand lehi factory its auxiliary thousands of acres of beets and its estimated present years product of three to four million pounds of sugar it almost looks that thai way but that thai was as much the foundation of this as an brother jacobss log house was the precursor of all the architectural wealth and grandeur ot this city some of the stockholders of the present factory have felta felt a little gruesome because no dividend has been forthcoming for their investment and 8 with a little means may doubt the wisdom of erecting another until this shall more fully pay its way this spirit is not normal to the old settlers of utah if every man prior to any call or before engaging in any work had bad made this the ultimatum utah would not today have held the proud position it occupies nor will it ever be or remain a beacon light to the nations if the most prominent question in the breads of its citizens is to be the boije one will it pay with an assured sale of every pound of its product with territorial and national bounty and freight tariff in its favor the present factory ought to pay and pay finely unless it if ID handicapped by those conditions or ex peruses which should be avoided similar protection and similarly assured sales fur for the product of our woolen factories with economys economy would change their present status of inanition into prosperity in one brief yearl posted men say this great industry of augur is only in its infancy as yet those who favor bounty on its manufacture claim that if this is continued five or ten years year america will not only be independent of germany but the english market will be ours ilso also and that the only way to supremacy to is to manufacture ourselves or the germans will come right into this country and do it fur for us ug s that our or product is excellent io ie guaranteed the fact act that it secured therold the cold medal from the world a fair places on record the estimate of ex cerp and this seasons season Is product now on the market seems richer drier and mere sightly than that of prior years Z C M I 1 will distribute from fifty to sixty carloads as to most other wholesale dealers and the new year will probably not find and a sack under the control of the manufacturers manufacture re every beet beat raiser will have got his pay maybe the stockholder his hia dividends dividend and utah will certainly be the gainer if the retention within our border of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Is of value to the financial or industrial progress aa of this part ot of our favored territory |