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Show H flfS! SACCHARINE. M v'j th.lross which Stuto -Olioinlst 1 ' 'i r"'foivorctl boforo tho -Salt Lnko H roroaLP ftnj Hatchers' Association H on tli(KTonllf, of j,mry u( ou tho h uhjoftnf iuro nII,i Adaltorntod B" l'OiMlP,tj tho Rpeokor after boiho ro-H ro-H vr i HiinrkH ftx rolntluti to tho oomparatlvo M fitftftttin of tho Utali mar-koto from H Impure food Ruhstiuicon, eaid: H "Sncoharlno, n substnnco inn do H from conl tar, nud used na n sub- B utttnto for sugnr, is ulBObolng sold M qulto o.xtoiiBlvoly, mid it 1b probable H that stops will bo taken at this souaion H of tho leglfllnturo to have a bill paused H prohibiting Ita snlo in thiB stuto. As H you nro probably awaro, eaooliarino ia H ROO tltnos an awoet iih sugnr. This H little throo ounce can which I hold in H . my hand boing equal in Bwootonlng B power to n hundred pounds of sugar, H and it costs but 25 oonts. In St. H Louis, 1 am told, ono iirm stated B" Unit it was compollod to do away with H tho uso of saccharine; it would tuouu H a loss to it of 800,000 a .year. I am H rtiiro tho sugar factories of tho Stuto H of Utah do not wish to oompoto with H tliia articlo, and it would bo a wiso H move to go after it at -onoo by passing H Huch a law." H Sinco roadiug tho aborowoiiaro H taken Bomo pains to learu nioro about H thiB wonderful saccharino, and for B' that purposo havo consulted tho latest edition of tho United States Dlsponsntory, from which wo learu Umt aa far as known tho suhbtauco H has no poisonous proportios, but ou HV tho contrary is found in sorno cases to H orvo a hotter purposo than wigar. H ' If tills is true, and 25 cents worth ot vj it will do ns much sweetening as 100 k tHinnds of sugar, wliy should a law bo JF0ouy. prohibiting ita salo iu our -31llP'ji'?"r-:"1- """ ' ""' ' """ ' '" " i? " . ireo, ic is evident that if thiB M rtMiuct ca'mo into general ueo sugar H would bocomo n Imck number, o to m Mpuak, as it goos without saying that B if a porson could buy tho equivalent m of a hundred pounds of It for 25 M oonts, ho would not ho likoly to pay M twenty or thirty times aa much in M order to got tho roal articlo. We M liavo hoard a lot about monopolies, but tho suggchtion of tlio etnto choui- m ist that a law should bo enacted itgn- M lust tho palo of this Bwootuor, simply H because if it la allowed to bo sold the H sugar faotorioa would havo to go out H of business, la a littlo tho most H barofaoed proposition of tho kind that M wo havo ovoroucountorod. Tho sugar M TactorloH are all right and wo look H upon them as bolug of great bcnollt H to tho stato, but to forco tho pooplo H to pay Btioh a bounty for thoir pro- H sonco as this situation exhibits, H would bo likoly to mako ovoryono H familiar with tho facts wish thoy had H nevor boon instituted. It la quite likoly that if legislation H , ia naked for on this subject, tho doc- H trlno of encouraging Infant industries H may bo urged by ita advocates, and a H claim made that this law will bo in H lino with tho policy; but tho foster H iug of infant industries lias boon douo H under tho assumption thut whou thoy H got ou thoir feet tho infanta would H contribute to tho support of thoir H' , parents tho pooplo but in this caso H tho longor tho industry lived tho H more tho pooplo would bo out of H. pocket, nud it l& not at all likoly that H tho republican party will bo fool H called upon to fostor such an unpro- H fltnblo infant ns this |