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Show CLASS ARTICLE AS EFFORT TO MAKE VOTES Tho olllcinls ot the Utah Idaho Sugar Su-gar Company liavo taken exceptions to an editorial In tho Democrat, tho ofllclnl organ ot tho Democratic pin-ty pin-ty on Wah. Tho statement ot tho Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, by Its oilice;-s nnd directors, follows: "Our attention has been ca'led to nn article In tho Democrat, publish-ed publish-ed In this city on October 10, 19l4r which is full ot misinformation and misrepresentation, but tho following excerpt taken from Bald artlclo is particularly Infamous and dastardly: "When you sold your sugar last June, toyourselves and your friends, It was Understood tho prlco should bo advanced, within four months, to upwards up-wards of $10 per cwt. ltemeinbcr, this "understanding" was agreed upon up-on before tho war was thought of and somo of your friends, on your advice, borrowed evory dollar they could and bought sugar. Had every BUgar stockholder been given tho same chance to more than doublo his money, this underhanded transaction, made to decelvo tho government c.x amlnors ot your books at the time, may never have leaked out; but soma were left out, and they squealed!. "Every person who Is capable of reasoning knows positively . that tills statement is "Viciously false. Tho officers of-ficers and directors of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company are not the band ot thieves and robbers which the above statement tries to make them out to be. "Evidently the above has been published pub-lished by' the Democrat for tho pur pose ot Influencing voters. If so, we "think the method used Is a mistake and greatly to be deplored. "UTAH-IDAHO. SUGAR COMPANY Joseph F. Smith, l'rcst. "Thomas R. Cutler, vice president and general manager. "W. S. McCornlck, John C. Cutler, Cut-ler, C. W., Nlbley, Executive Committee. Com-mittee. , "Francis M. Lyman, Heber J. Grant, George Romney, L. R. Pic-cles, Pic-cles, Directors. "Horace G. Whitney, Secretary and Treasurer." |