By Matthew Godfrey
ISBN-10: 087421548X
ISBN-13: 9780874215489
ISBN-10: 0874216583
ISBN-13: 9780874216585
One recognized goal of innovative period makes an attempt to rein in monopolistic massive enterprise was once the japanese Sugar belief. much less recognized is how federal regulators additionally attempted to damage monopoly regulate over beet sugar within the West by way of going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar corporation, a enterprise supported and regulated by way of the Latter-day Saints church and run through Mormon gurus. As sugar beet agriculture boomed, the Mormon church’s involvement led on to monopolistic practices through Utah-Idaho Sugar and to federal investigations. Church leaders inspired individuals, a majority inhabitants in a lot of the intermountain West, to patronize the corporate completely, as providers and shoppers. As early as 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff had referred to as missionaries to elevate funds for the fledgling corporation and asserted divine notion for church help. Utah-Idaho bridged the cooperative, theocratic, self-sufficient monetary version of nineteenth-century Mormonism and the combination of the Mormon West into the nationwide marketplace financial system. faith, Politics, and Sugar exhibits, during the instance of an incredible western company, how nationwide advertisement, political, and felony forces within the early 20th century got here west and, extra in particular, how they affected the real function the Mormon church performed in financial affairs within the area.
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76. “Testimony of Mr. Thomas R. Cutler,” June 23, 1911, American Sugar Refining Company Hearings, 782; Arrington, Beet Sugar in the West, 71, 178. 77. “Testimony of Mr. Joseph F. Smith,” June 27, 1911, American Sugar Refining Company Hearings, 1032, 1039. Smith claimed that the dividends on this stock were used “for the interest of the church . . 78 But church authorities contended that there was nothing unseemly in their involvement in Utah industries. Heber J. Grant told a Mr. ” Grant admitted that the church had taken a large interest in the sugar industry, but he made no apologies for it.
20 By 1890, then, a few beet sugar fabrications were operating successfully in the American West. Although Utah had failed in its initial beet sugar attempt, the quest to develop edible sweeteners had continued in the territory. Arthur Stayner, a Utah horticulturist from England, made several attempts in the 1870s and 1880s to produce sugar from sorghum cane, sugar cane, and beets. In 1887, Utah’s territorial legislature even granted him a $5,000 bounty, payable upon the production of 7,000 pounds of marketable sugar.
Millennial Star 61 (1894): 227. ” Van Wagoner, “The Lehi Sugar Factory,” 200. 52 At the same time, sugar company officials tried to convince farmers of the benefits of growing beets, and Thomas Cutler even served as a “sugar beet missionary” to various parts of Utah for that purpose. On a request from George Q. ”53 Since the cultivation of sugar beets required so much work, Cutler had to convince farmers of the value of growing beets in order to ensure that agriculturists would continue to raise the product.
Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 by Matthew Godfrey
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