The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 14, 1918, Page 23

2x * vy - » 13 Soga -.,;- [ 4 o (¥ = e 7 gt ¥ Clwi dfire The Sugar Kings and Beet Peasants (Contmued from - page 10) The manager’s automobile - has. been at the service of ' the pelitical “ boss ' in the county where - the ~ factory = happens ‘to be la- cated... The manager is a director or president of the commercial club, the country fair association,the school district “board, or M® is an alderman or ‘mayor ‘of ‘the town.. And Iately, using the dollar as the unit of measure of patriotism, they are the leading patriots of their respectlve commu- nlties. P COMPANY APPEALS ON PATRIOTISM BASIS “The Great Western Sugar company - normally makes 6,000,000 bags of sugar a year, of 100 pounds each. -It has made a net profit of at least $3.50 ‘per bag. Its investment is about $15- 000,000, and it has actually made, in net profits, around $20,000,000 a year for the past three years. “To be more specific, this company has sold the products-of a ton of beets for about $25. It has paid the farmer about $7.25, and the cost of working this ton of beets into sugar has been about $5. Iis net profits- from each ton of beets have been from $10 to $12. “This company, when it sent out pay checks this year, sent out with them an appeal to farmers to raise beets on the score of . patriotism. - Over all' the years that the farmers have grown beets in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska, they have just about broken even, -while the sugar trust has thus wallowed in astounding profits. The farmers henceforth refuse to grow beets unless . they : realize a profit from growing them. Other crops—wheat, barley, oats and beans—offer more attractive features. The farmers. through their delega- tions sent to Washington say: ' ‘We can -not grow beets _merely as-a pa- triotic' duty, at an offered price.below the cost ‘of ‘‘production, -especially” when the sugar company will make more in net profits from a ton of beets than it pays us for them. “Beet growers near Los Angeles; Calif., some weeks ago, decided that thesituation had reached a crisis. A themselves can * grand - jury was appealed to, and evl-- A dence was presented showing the ab- . solute control of the business by the sugar trust magnates, while the farm- ers were being paid less than it cost - Through - them to raise the beets. h their ‘ organization, the farmers ap- pealed to Food Administrator Hoover. - At the same time the beet grow- ers in the Colorado, Wyoming, Mon- tana and Nebraska region; and in the Utah and Idaho region, also sent delegations to the national capital to see Mr. Hoover.. We met him on De- cember 17. 5 ENE HOOVER APPOINTED SUGAR MAGNATES “Upon . several personal intervlews with Mr. Hoover, we were’ impréssed with his absolute sincerity of purpose, his fair-minded -attitude, and. his de- sire in gcod faith to render justice. “In_the sugar department of the food administration, however, the beet growers found former sugar manufac- turers who could not sympathize with the beet growers’ position.. They are men of undoubted personal integrity, but their tonnection and interests in making and selling sugar for many years gives them a point of view and an interest opposed to the farmers’ interest. At least, that is the opinion the farmers carried away from the in- terview.” Dakan: explained one other reason why Mr. Hoover and other government officials are misinformed as to ‘the condition ‘of the beet growers. This is the careful cultivation by -the. sugar trust of a group of “prominent farm- ers” in each sugar beet district, who will play ‘the company’s game all the Year . around. - Social and - poiitical fa.vors, as ‘well as favors .in getting pulp for their livestock, fall their way, and they stand high and praise the com- pany aloud: Former Presldent Morey of the Great Western Sugar company: spoke of them as “good farmer friends, who keep -up posted and help us fix our tax assessments.” But if the farmgrs refuse to raise beets unless th;é}ust shall disgorge that profit of $10 to.$12 on each ton of beets, what will the poor trust do? { £ Crafty Prostrated by His Failure (Continued from page 13) Crafty. 1 stepped back, helt out the receiver an’ sed: “You're wanted.” He sot purfeckly still fur & minnit —-a minnit which 'seamed like a week. Then he got up an’ shambeled over to the fone, took the receiver an’ sed: “This iz Mr. Crafty; what iz it?” -Then I heard a voice, but couldn’t understand it. . But it wuz talkin’ purty positive. 4‘Skeem all shot to L, you say!” shouted Crafty. The voice rattled on. “Who let the cat outen the bag?” ‘he ast, bitterly. The voice fairly screeched—.‘ Crafty wuz waverin’, his hulky body - wuz swayin’, hiz han’ wuz slippin’'— it slipped—an’ the big hulk stiffened, the han’s flew to the distorted tace an’ " Crafty fell hiz full length in the middle uv the floor. The crash shuck ‘the bildin’ to the foundashun.” He groaned like a hoss with the collick. I puffed my peace uv pipe an’ let him groan, Finally I got up, went over, stuck my toe in his ribbs an’ give it a push. He never showed enny sines uv life. I thought he wuz ded an’ foned fur the ambulance. It cum an’ thay car- ried him.out on a stretcher. 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