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Show to the matter with its usual fearlessness, fear-lessness, even while running the advertisement of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company. Two very interesting studies of the sugar situation in Utah came to our talile this week. One is "The Beet-sugar Industry in Utah," by James H. Wolfe in the Utah Survey, the other is a pamphlet by C. G. Patterson, entitled, "Business, Politics, arid Religion in Utah," with the subhead, sub-head, "The Utah-Idaho Sugar i Company versus The People of Utah and Idaho." Mr. Wolfe's article is devoted to the cost of raising sugar beets, and furnishes all the data to be had so far on the subject. Other phases are to be treated in later numbers of the Survey. Mr. Patterson reviews the evidence brought out in the case of the United States versus the Amalgamated Sugar Refining Company, et. al., the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company being one of the defendants in the said case. "It is their own story," Mr. Patterson avers, "dragged out of them by a United States attorney." at-torney." "If these men charge that the record has been unfairly quoted against them, " he goes on, "let them publish theiecird in full-(It full-(It is presumed that they see nothing to buast of in it, else , they would have shouted it from the housetops long ago.)" It shows conclusively that these sugar makers, while posing hypocritically as benefactors of Utah and Idaho, bought their beets cheaper than could com- i panies in other sections and charge more for sugar Ifere in Utah than on the Missouri river, using the prestige of the Mormon church to keep out competitors . Who offered to bring up the price of beets. The protest against this systematic syste-matic picking of poor men's pockets is growing stronger every day; and when the facts , are fully understood by the voters vot-ers of Utah the resulting hurri- i cane of indignation will cleanse : the' political air of the state.' . It is a known fact that the cost , of making sugar in Utah is less than three cents per pound in average years, this covering depreciation of the plant and every contingency of operation and management. By selling at $3.50 per hundred the makers can pay reasonable dividends on the amount invested and accumulate accum-ulate a surplus that will make them safe under all conditions. It is also a fact that the sugar factories ship sugar to strangers n the Missouri river and sell it cheaper than to their friends in Utah. At the same time they have the nerve to advertise in the dailies as a "HOME PRODUCT." If we have to bear the burden of many more such "home products" pro-ducts" may God- help us. Kane County News. The Protest is Growing No doubt the Iron County Record is glad to lose its bet that no Salt Lake daily would dare complain at the price of sugar. Tne Silt Lake Telegram goes in- |