By Matthew Godfrey
ISBN-10: 087421548X
ISBN-13: 9780874215489
ISBN-10: 0874216583
ISBN-13: 9780874216585
One recognized aim of innovative period makes an attempt to rein in monopolistic vast enterprise was once the jap Sugar belief. much less identified is how federal regulators additionally attempted to damage monopoly regulate over beet sugar within the West by means of going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar corporation, a enterprise supported and regulated via 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 by way of 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 known as missionaries to elevate cash for the fledgling corporation and asserted divine proposal 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 industry financial system. faith, Politics, and Sugar indicates, throughout the instance of a massive western company, how nationwide advertisement, political, and felony forces within the early 20th century got here west and, extra particularly, how they affected the real function the Mormon church performed in monetary affairs within the quarter.
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32 First, he and his two counselors in the First Presidency—Cannon and Joseph F. ”33 In addition, Woodruff told Smith, Grant, and other high-ranking church leaders to encourage members to provide their support when they visited stakes and wards throughout Utah. Following this counsel, apostle Francis M. Lyman told a congregation in Salt Lake City that the Utah Sugar Company was “the greatest material enterprise ever undertaken . . and will be the means whereby a vast amount of money will be saved annually to 31.
Then the complicated procedure of converting the vegetable into sugar began. When all of these processes finally produced sugar in October 1891, it is no wonder that those present shouted for joy. As the amount of beet sugar it produced increased, the Utah Sugar Company slowly began to work its way out of debt, largely because of the financial backing of the LDS church, the state government (which provided a one-cent per pound bounty for sugar production), and the federal government (which 43. Webb, untitled manuscript, 3.
Original petition, 118–28, copy in Leonard J. Arrington Papers, MSS 1, Series 12: The Writings of Leonard J. Arrington, box 10, folder 3, The Leonard J. Arrington Historical Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Merrill Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah (hereafter referred to as Arrington Papers); Alfred S. , 1969), 179–87, 300–304. , 1911, 47, pt. 1:881; Robert H. , 1962), 95, 121; Eichner, The Emergence of Oligopoly, 308; “Attack Made Upon Trusts of All Kinds,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 4, 1911.
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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