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Show UTAH INDUSTRY WOULD SUFFER I Beet Sugar Brings Into the State Millions of Dollars, Which Would Be Lost to Utah If the Industry Were Crushed Thousands of Families Sustained by Best Farming. The sugar industry of Utah repre-. scnts an investment of between fif-I fif-I teen nnd twenty million dollars, from I which the Btate obtains its, share of taxes that help to maintain tho schools and roads. It furnishes labor directly or lndl- 'rectly during the cultivating season to nabput. 1&.000 ,nien, and during- the ' gugaijfaiid harvesting season Ao about 'lfM .-nicri.rthcreh supporting from rtcn t5 flfteenfthousnnd families': or nn average of from 50,000 to 75,000 persons. per-sons. , J It furnishes employment to field laborers, la-borers, sugar house employes, -ca'r-penlers. "engineers, firemen, cloctri-cians, cloctri-cians, chemists, , teamsters, wolgrierSi etc., etc. , ' The a-grlcultural crops of the Btate of Utah for the year 1911 sold" 'fbr-$18,795,117, 'fbr-$18,795,117, and the sugar beet crop alone sold for ovor $7,000,000. . .Moro than 90 per cent of this ijCgj D00,000 of new money thus broughHn- ' I to the state was distributed among T the farmors and laborers of this state. Tho American sugar trubt is gTcatly interested in the adoption nf a free sugar bill, and would be the chief beneficlnry. If the sugar industry Is crippled in this country, as It will bo by the passago of the free sugar blJ, the sugar trust would reilne all tho raw sugar that comes from foreign for-eign countries, and would absolutely contiol the price of sugar in the United Uni-ted Statos and reap enormous profits, while the peoplo would pay probablv higher prices than now prevail. The total production of sugar in the United Stales and colonics Is 1.700,-00p 1.700,-00p tons', or more than 10 per cent of the total production of the world. The total Consumption of sugar in tho United Statqs is 3,500,000 tons per i-aniium, which Is over tuicc as much a jail of the beot and cane sugar pro-jluc6d pro-jluc6d in tho United States and its ".various colonics The Industry should, therefore, be encouraged, not destroy-ed. destroy-ed. Free sugar might wipe out entirely the homo production and leao us at the mercy of the foreign producer, and tho prices would increase. The passage of the free sugar bill means tho crippling of tho sugar industry in-dustry in the United States. The cost of production of Utah beet sugar has averaged for the Inst ton years 1-lOOoc per pound, while sugar in Java is produced for 1.50c per pound, in the Philippines for 1 75c per -pound, in Cuba for 2c per pound and in Germany for 2.42c per pound. If the sugar is placed on the free list foreign raw sugars will bo delivered deliv-ered In New Orleans and New York for 1 cent to 1 1-2 cents a pound less than it costs to produce it In this country. Domestic sugar will be entirely driven out of the market, and, as soon as the beet sugar industry Is destroyed destroy-ed the sugar trust will raise the price on refined sugar, foreign governments will impose an export tax on sugar, the American people will pay tho higher prices and this important 'horns industry will be destroyed. The sugar trust will be the solo beneficiary ben-eficiary of the free sugar bill and will control the sugar business of the United Uni-ted States. With tho sugar industry wiped out in this country, foreign countries would immediately impose an export tax on the taw sugar nccdod by the United States, so that foreign sugar would cease to be cheaper, and the American people would pay tho price. In other words, instead of fostering an inuusiry at noine, we wouiu contribute con-tribute to the support of foreign governments: gov-ernments: help to support foreign industries in-dustries at the expense of American labor; and American capital now spont here for sugar would go abroad, and establish a balance of ' trade against us. Sugar Is the only food product that has steadily decreased in price In spite of the constantly increasing cost of living. The following are authentic government govern-ment figures upon tho salo price of sugar for tho last forty years: In 1S70 the average price reccicd by tho beet and cane factories In tho United States for granulated sugar was 10.7 cents per pound. In 18S0, 8.S1 cents per pound. In 1890, 0.27 cents per pound. In 1900, 5.32 cents per pound In 1910, 4.97 cents per pound. If tho sugar industry in Utah is destroyed as it will be b the free sugar bill, tho farmers and laborers engaged directly or Indirectly In this industry will have to seek other employment; em-ployment; other crops will be planted to the detriment of the best interests of the farmer If the frco sugar bill becomes a law tho millions of dollars invested In it will shrink to very little, and the proceeds pro-ceeds of the crops will bo withdrawn from our local circulation If the sugar trust succeeds in obtaining ob-taining free sugar, for which It has been working for several years, the sugar lands of Utah ( being thrown upon tho market for othor purposes) will greatly decrease in value, thereby directly affecting tho alue of all other oth-er agricultural lands in the state. These facts only apply to tho single sin-gle state of Utah, and are intensified in oery beet sugar state on the Pacific Pa-cific coast, because thoro aro moro factories in every other beet sugar state on the coast than there aro In our state. Wo cannot believe that congress, for mere politics, will destroy de-stroy an investment of hundreds of millions, put hundreds of thousands of men out of employment in an nlread established industry, reduce the value of thousands of acres of lands, cheapen cheap-en the price of labor, generally destroy de-stroy our commercial relationship and arreHt the development of our own country. Utah Crops. Values of Crops produced in Utah during 1911 as obtained from tho state statistician: Wheat $ n.517,500 Oats 1.S27.7S3 Barloy 6S1.120 Rye , ; 54,250 Corn 22G.S00 Potatoes 1,917,000 Alfalfa Seed JU0.9G4 Hay 1O.2GO.000 Total .$1S.795,I17 Fruit $2,000,000 Honev 60,000 Wool S.'ioO.OnO oo "I suffered habitually Irom constipation. constipa-tion. Doan's Reguiets relieved and strengthened tho bowels, so that they have boon regular ever since." A. E. Davis, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Tex, - |