| Show industries ARE indispensable tills territory requires home enterprises the facilities for making our own products are fco preat that it is actually astonishing that more has not been dono to set in active operation industries ol 01 various kinds tor which we have abundant raw material tho sugar industry at lehi has demonstrated that it this territory had enough sugar factories to supply homo consumption alone in a few years the people would save enough money to pay all the indebtedness debt edness on their mortgaged property tho returns would benefit all classes alio employer tho employed the and the capitalist A alio worlds fair there was a grand exhibit of beet augar made concern ins this exhibit and what it teaches the american economist makes some remarks that are intended for the whole nation but they are just as applicable to any one territory in tho union as whole the paper says the lesson it teaches is that the united states can produce its own sugar and by so doing will retain among our own citizens about that we are now annually sending to foreign countries and if this vast sum could be kept at home statisticians tell us that we would in course of ten years be the nation on tho globe it also o 0 it would largely solve tho 4 L A tac labor troubles that seem at times to become so serious as to endanger our republic as this new industry would give abundant labor to the unemployed attracting tr the best class of immigrants to our country and enable a man on ten acres of well cultivated beets to produce as much money as he could on of corn to say nothing of the fact that the crop is free from speculative influences as before planting contract is made with the factory and as soon as the beets are ripe they are delivered and paid for thus enabling the farmer to pay bis bills in town and not bo to keep his crop hoping for a higher market perhaps to re alize on a much lower one it teaches also little children who are too small to work at hard labor to make a living as they are specially adapted to the thinning out of the babets thua giving employment in the summer when they are away from school and keeping them out of mischief it helps the railroads the coal mines the iron foundries the limestone quarries the agricultural manufacturer and in fact permeates into nearly every channel of commercial industry we need and should have a sugar factory in weber county what plan can ibo adopted to interest capital in this direction it is clearly demonstrated that such an institution would benefit all concerned would give employment and fair returns on the investment providing capital could be induced to branch out in this direction A bonus from the people through their legislators would scarcely be noticed by the taxpayers tax payers and the returns to them through this investment would be so great directly and indirectly that it would not require much time to prove it to bo a most excellent business proposition no person would object to giving away one dollar if by so doing lie could secure two in return the sugar factory at lehi has already saved to hie whole people of tho territory two dollars for every dollar invested in it if a bonus has been in one case why may it not bo in more since the market for sugar is far from being supplied if the financial troubles are to be overcome some movement must be inaugurated that will give tho people an opportunity to work out their own deliverance they are willing to help capital to kielp them prosperity will not return to the people without an effort on their part they must make this effort by encourage ng the establishment of home industries n their midst |
