Religion, politics, and sugar : : the Mormon Church, the federal government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 / / Matthew C. Godfrey.

• Superior document: Life Writings Frontier Women
• Author: Godfrey, Matthew C.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Life Writings Frontier Women
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Table of Contents

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.