| Show MUST BUST HA HATE VE RAILROAD AID The NEWS W believes in conceding to the owners of ot a business enterprise as asa aaa a rule the privilege ef ot conducting 1 it according to their own notions Rail Rail- Railroad Railroads road roads usually come within the be opera opera- operation operation operation tion of this rule though they some some- sometimes sometimes times afford exceptions to it owing to 0 their peculiar relations relation to the state and to the people What we are aboa about abo t to say ay may be regarded perhaps as aa an In- In in upon the rule stated but It Iti itis itis i is said laid from Irom a profound conviction of duty and aDd with a kindly feeling to all concerned Utah has bas a su sugar u ar factory It Ie I la is a gigantic plant and aad cost COlt a very large lare amount of money A tremendous effort w was required to build It it Inspired by pure patriotism and a lofty regard for forthe forthe the highest Interests of all aU the people of this commonwealth a number of gentlemen po pos pos- possessed selled of means meana and credit topped stepped boldly forward and shouldered the load which someone had to carry In order to prevent the failure of 01 the enterprise e and the people are grateful to them The Utah Legislature aided It by giving a bounty on sugar lugar and aDd every taxpayer feels himself personal personal- personally ly interested in its permanent success as aa be he most moat assuredly is The bankers merchants and nd business men of the whole Territory are very much con Con- concerned concerned for Its it prosperity and are very proud of it In a word all aU the people of Utah individually and collectively feel a lively interest in iD this ac factory rJ To them theu it is II a source of ef joy jy rind aid prid pride well well of ef something more lui substantial a necessary article of food tood It means hundreds of thousands of dollars saved laved annually to thi this Territory and it I means profitable employment to tp many I farmers mere and other persons Just now the prosperity It if not the existence ce of ot this great reat Utah industry Is menaced by the power and un scrupulous methods of one on of ot the rich richest est eat and most gigantic commercial in- in in of modern times the sugar trust Hust But this baneful monopoly can can- cannot not Dot succeed in crippling the Utah en- en enterprise en unless it has bae ha the aid of the railroads If It f the Utah factory shall ball be b liven given the benefit of a reasonable freight rate to be paid on OB imported sugar it h will be able to compete suc- suc sue o but if the sugar au ar trust shall be given a merely nominal rate it will wUl undoubtedly be able to cripple and perhaps destroy the he industry of sugar maki making ng in Utah The attitude of the sugar trust is iaone one ot of a assault upon every everyman man woman and child in Utah and the objects object ts of ot the attack distinctly u un n- n demand the situation Consequently the Utah public as a one man oan are anxiously waiting to see ee whether or not Dot the railroads railroad that haul sU sugar into this Territory will form orm an unholy alliance with ith the sugar trust in order to ac- ac ac ao the ruin of at the local fac fac- factory factory factory tory The people of Utah as al a citizens and through their Legislature have hare dealt generously with the railroad railroads but the road load which joins im in making war upon this or any other industry of Utah will rouse roUle the of a people who will be strong in the unanimity with which they will adopt measures of self defense if It not of reprisal The Ule assessed d valuation of railroad property bu bas always alway been very low in Utah It could euld be doubled and perhaps trebled and nd the increase would the test of Jaw law The people of Utah are in a position to re return urn treatment in kind to railroads in ways different different ways a and any ro t l sharing their patrona patronage e would do dowell dowell dowell well to consider with deliberation belore be- be lore be-lore tore lore conniving at the destruction of an enterprise in which the entire Terri Terri- Territory Territory tory ory financially and sentimentally Is isso so 10 vitally and enthusiastically Inter Inter- later allt as it ie is in the establishment at Lehi Lebl That the people of whom who we speak are a strong united and determined community ie Is amply attested by the tb existence of the sugar augar factory itself and that they fey have bare settled tiled upon a fixed And resolute r policy ot of sustaining home bome manufactures was waa overwhelmingly ly Proven by the exhibits exhibit at the late Ter- Ter Ter dorta Fair A people of such strength union onion and Bad intelligence as the inhabitants inhabitants tants antl of this thia Territory have hare shown themselves to possess po regardless regard leaa of differences in iD religion and will find a mode of successful self defense even though railroads handling their tram It should combine with trusts to destroy their manufacturing enter enter- enterprises enter Even ETen where competitive oo lines may not now exist a new line Jine of ot road connecting Utah with either East or West is la by no means meana an impossibility for lor such a people to accomplish Threats covert or otherwise are not intended to be here expressed Not Noth Ing of the kind ought to be necessary where the course of sound lound business policy Is to ielo 10 so plain and aDd straightforward Our present pr sent lent purpose is merely to give Tea reasons why the railroads railroad ought not to operate bo-operate with any opposing influence ence once or corporation for the purpose of destroying c industries in which tb the i capital and sympathies of ot the people ot of o Utah are enlisted We have hare cited the tb case of the sugar factory because that at present seems to be the object of at- at attack attack at attack tack Our remarks however are meant to have bare equal application to any other enterprise now in inn operation or that t the future may develop within the borders of the coming cornice State |
