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Show Regarding the failure to continue to give a territorial bounty to tne L,ehi sugar works, the Herald aptly comments com-ments upon the wkdom of the legislature. legisla-ture. The government bounty on sugar is 2 cents a ponnd. The cost of . freight to Utah from eastern or western refineries is nearly 1 cent a pound. That is, there is already a protection of 3 cents a pound on all the sngar to made in Utah, and in the face of this exorbitant bounty of 3 cents, amounting almost to the world's market price of sugar should anyone go before the legislature and ask them to levy still another ceut of tax npon the people and pnt it Into the pockets of the sugar producers? pro-ducers? Reason elands checked, justice disapproves, even the common people ere amazed. Some ask this one cent a pound as if they needed It. Nay more: . they demand this $1 per hundred weight as if they had a right to it. They know that tbey have the same right to demand 1 cent per pound on the sugar they produce that they have to demand that the legislature give them their neighbor's cow or his horse, Tet they are not ababhed, and rush about the streets abusing those who oppose the indefensible proposition |