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Record Nr.

UNISA996207978203316

Autore

Godfrey Matthew C

Titolo

Religion, Politics, and Sugar : The LDS Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1927 / / Matthew C. Godfrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2007

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-87421-548-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Life Writings Frontier Women

Disciplina

338.7/6641230973

Soggetti

Sugar trade - Government policy - United States

Beet sugar industry - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The establishment of the sugar industry in Utah and Idaho, 1851-1907 -- Before the Hardwick Committee of the House of Representatives -- National sugar policies and the First World War -- Political and legal troubles in the aftermath of the First World War -- Restraint of trade : Federal Trade Commission v. Utah-Idaho Sugar -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

One famous target of Progressive Era attempts to rein in monopolistic big business was the eastern Sugar Trust. Less known is how federal regulators also tried to break monopoly control over beet sugar in the West by going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a business supported and controlled by the Latter-day Saints church and run by Mormon authorities. As sugar beet agriculture boomed, the Mormon church's involvement led directly to monopolistic practices by Utah-Idaho Sugar and to federal investigations. Church leaders encouraged members, a majority population in much of the intermoun