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Show WHAT'SEN. CLAY THINKS . OF MORMONS. That was c ridiculous speech made by Senator Clay of Georgia in the senate Tuesday, when Jie charged President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon Mor-mon church with setting the price for sugar beets In Utah and forcing the farmers to raise beets at his figures. fig-ures. The sugar industry jn Utah is controlled in great part by the Sugar Trust, which nordrily fixes the price of sugar, but determines to some extent ex-tent the price to be paid for beets. There are farmers who are not Mormons Mor-mons and they are raising sugar beets at the price offered by the sugar factories, fac-tories, and they are doing so because, as compared with other farm crops, beets pay better, tho market is assured assur-ed and cash Is paid on delivery, or soon thereafter. The Mormon farmer Is as Independent Indepen-dent in his actions as the farmer of any other religious belief and would be as quick to resent church dictation, dicta-tion, as to how much ho should accept ac-cept for his crop, as the most self-assertive self-assertive non-Mormon. At a great distance from Utah it is well enough to tell these fairy tales, for anything, however absurd, is received re-ceived as the truth by those who are unfamiliar with conditions in this state. These utterances of uninformed public pub-lic men should be contradicted, not by the Mormons themselves, but by all the people of Utah who take pride In their state and its people and who are opposed to the American people receiving the Impression that Mormons Mor-mons are numskulls and - tergious dupes in need of guardians. |