Show alia convention today to day the convention which is to establish a told basis 11 and raise tho prices of flour and other produce regardless of the w wanta ants of tile or the co condition of the market will assemble today to day we suspect however th that at those who inaugurated this his novel movement gave won an and will find it a very very difficult animal to lo manage unless they are wiser kiaer than most men they will assur redl adly find that they hey have undertaken hilly fully as much as they can accomplish leaving aside for the nonce all question or patriotism WP we remark that it ic ft a most serious matter to effect a sudden change in the currency of a community the fact that there is not enough gold coin ip in utah to serve a single day s purposes of trade and that the practical establishment of a gold curren currency ey 11 is simply it a matter arim of impossibility the movers abw now seek by a shallow pretext to accomplish the same end in another way in order to obviate the charge of depreciating biating the national currency and to meet the C im p M just spoken ot of it i 14 now now gravely proposed to make legal tenders at par the ba is of amile 1 of course tuat ih only another wayt of expressing the something sam ething and reducing commerce to a gold basis but without any goldat gold atall all fora for a foundation I 1 the proposition were not ridiculous it would be shrewd lt it is ie something like insisting that lee is ig not nota 11 traitor because treason implies disloyalty to ones government and lees government is the bastard southern confederacy donot theeb t he w wise als i e political economists know that by the law lav of the land and the custom custom of the he corint country ry legal tender notes are always at par thai they are arc the currency of the nation and pass dollar for dollar while gold is the commodity the ille shuttlecock of wall street I 1 I 1 I 1 speculators w ia 16 no lao lougee the ilia avais of trade but urn is ia not the only or pr tie moat difficult quaton this church convention will have to deal dal with it itis iia proposed sod that having established something in the similitude of a gold basis they will enter upon their practical duties in fixing an n arbitrary standard of prices for produce proda cei below which no good saint will I 1 sell fell ignoring the question of supply and demand these solons may hope thus to drive from froio its ite natural channels kuk we are arc much mistaken if the does not find anian inextricable labyrinth of difficulties despite their resolutions and their edicts the farmer will find himself at last compelled to govern himself by events as aa they if bw bk sour fleur im ww morth orth 20 per ewt he will get it but should the harvest prove abundant as it undoubtedly iville will and there is ie flour than to kedi k edi down must go tw the i price capital alone can force prices up and anle ule church leaders are determined and prepared to 9 0 o to ithe market and abd buy up tip at afe priors all tho produce in the theroun coun 1 try bwy wh find their resolutions fall idill born f I 1 I 1 I 1 batt do brot besh tB prompt 0 tit political aklu who have already s succeeded exceeded it in maisil raising ng I 1 r ino the price of ampre etli pre cite that though they are allowing some ar the T a temporary advantage they are tte hie great gmt mass inam of Ws 0 peo 11 pie while it is ie tre bat fanning w is the moat iveal pursuit othe of the of these valleys how equally true is ig it that comparatively but more wheat to Is tw actual wan wanta ts of khar own families by raising the price of ir of this q cua tire are bene benefi fitted tied ave those who bar yost adata R surplus every man inan who does not raim puch ich istir surplus plus suffers front from aripe dom demanded for and tuuao wn con guiab the tb great bulk of the comal community unity the the artisan the dealer the la laborer boxer S so ter ae the merchants chapla baukert awl gawl oa 11 we concerned dmd mid abw wham bhain probably te aba wt WM W they ca well aford to pv pay the 00 diw d for produce noy nay more inore they are the bra conw who berlly profit by the maame ahry limply add to uie the aripe of dwir wares and foree compliance gift their rals ln fact they ther ahk p abir very action the excuser r p proportionately bat ut far far beyond any legit tc rao rf 0 bof of proportion the poor mau at at atys the of libe the immense imme nHe lim rits ifil oa 01 the hie many suffer while the few thrive As a friend of the people we would be glad 1 to 10 0 be able to impress these views upon the members of the he Conven convention tiou ore it be too late if tho the convention is successful in the ends proposed the evil days will surely come and the burthen be borne by bi abos least able ri tob byear earit it personally or officially we ive have little concern in id the question how high the price of flour may bo be fixed the very meas iare proposed by the movers of this conven tion scheme have constrained the government against its desire to transport flour from abroad thus has a very large consumption for our home produce been witha wilhow awu wu frow from alie farmer of utah not less than bushels or of wheat which would otherwise have been consumed by the troops at remunerative rates to the producer must mus t now find another market where it may flour is a drug a at bannack at 17 6 per C awl wt and more arriving every day little or none will be required at becse river or west of us and with a splendid crop and a large surplus the farmer fanner will seek in vain for remunerating rates such stich seems to us its to be the inevitable result of this unauthorized certainly unwise I 1 tampering with trade those leaders who have advised it have a heavy responsibility on their hands the jamess of the people will suffer are now suffering from the ill advised movement and it will eventually read react on the farmer himself it is however never too late to retrace a false step unless stubbornness take the placa of reason and we trust that the members of af the convention W will 1111 at the matter an can argue it like t rit rational ional b effies and follow f 0 I 1 not dictation from any source |