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Show J L.- - . . . T. THE CITIZEN may be predicted with great confidence that the next great national scandal will break around the bond sellers, and that the nv and cry which in former years was raised against oper- . ators, will in time be followed by a national uproar levelled againsi the countrys powerful bond selling cliques. This will be delayed It get-rich-qui- ck for a number of years, because so long as the bond sellers are to juu t0 sieep maily newspapers with large size paid-fo- r bond nouncements and to control their news columns, these newsn,. . will be slow to turn their batteries upon the bond sellers. . REPUBLICANS MAKING TRIPLE EFFOR A FOR LABOR For the first time in the history of the nation the status of the laboring man has been taken into consideration in connection with legislation to foster and protect home industry. The outstanding feature of the plan now being followed by the Republican administration to. restore the country to a condition of normalcy, lies not alone in the Fordney tariff bill, with its multitude of protective schedules applicable to all lines of American industry, but the recently enacted and now effective restrictive immigration measures comes in for a generous meed of praise. The purpose of the restrictive immigration bill was two fold to relieve the congested labor situation that followed the war, at the precise time when there were far more men seeking work then there were jobs ; and to give opportunity for the Americanization of the foreign element already here, before admitting any consider- able number of new immigrants. In both particulars the effect upon American labor should be good, for there will not only be less competition in the numbers of workmen but as the result of the Americanization of the immigrants within our gates, their standards of living will be raised and they will expect and ask the same wage standards that the American workmen demand. The enactment of an import tariff law will supplement the restrictive features of the immigration law. Here you have the triple effort of the Republican plan to bring the country back to normal briefly summarized. It is patent to all that it would be of little use to protect American labor from competition of foreign immigration and at the same time leave our ports open to the free admission of the products of that same illy paid and exploited element. A workman who can come here and lower the standard of wages and of living fo competition can and does lower American standards by profo cheaply at home and shipping goods here to be sold in direct petition with the products of American manufacturers madt American labor. These are facts frequently overlooked by those who are ob$J with the free trade delusion and many Democrats who favoj striction of immigration strenuously oppose any restrictions the importation of the products of the same laborers whom want kept out of the country. Having restricted immigration it now devolves upon the istration to guard the country against the cheap products same class of laborers who are to be kept out. If the A laborer is to receive the full benefit of the new immigrate he must also be protected by a tariff wall from the dumping t and the low prices of foreign made goods. Of the two evil: have for almost a century beset American labor immigratlc cheap foreign products the former may be said to be the menacing. Once admitted to this country foreign labor must much of his earnings here, while the foreign laborer who prodt: home, spends his earnings abroad, and only the effect of his work ever reaches this country, coming into direct and destr. competition with the higher priced American labor. Wars aftermath finds several millions of men out of emplo; in this country. Government cannot find a complete ranee such an economic condition. The present administration is everything possible to afford relief through legislation, aPP1 the most effective being the immigration law and the propos port tariff measure. c: ill; COMMISSION MEN KITE FRUIT AND DUCE PRICES x the PE at the California shipping point. The cynic was wrong, as cynics so often are, who blandly defined Salt Lake as a city surrounded partly by salt water, bleak moun- In less tbs lots it would cost $3.87. including war tax, to land these len There are others. Lately it has come to the knowledge of many large buyers of green produce and fruits, most of which are shipped here from distant points, that there exists a combine to foist unwarranted prices upon the retailers and the consumers. It is said on good authority that this combine, which has its headquarters in the vicinity of Eccles avenue, where are located practically all of the commission houses of the city, meets every Monday morning and fixes prices for the ensuing week. .In corroboration of this mutually beneficial price fixing habit, the large buyers call attention to the quotations sent out each Monday afternoon, naming prices for butter, eggs, and cheese, at wholesale, f. o. b. Salt Lake and which quotations are instantly known to and glibly quoted to all inquiring parties by every commission house in Eccles avenue row. These same large buyers complain that no advance sheets are sent out naming prices on green produce, cantaloupes, lemons and oranges, but that a similar parity of price obtains and that it is frequently almost a prohibitive price that is asked for these articles. Take lemons, for instance, one large buyer was quoted lemons at Salt Lake. This would make the lemons cost $4.32 landed To his amazement this man received quotations of $12.50 perl lemons from the local commission men and each concern he!, aciously to the same figures. Now, it is well known to men who buy provisions and ft large lots, that the carl load rate on lemons to Salt Lah 'California, is $1.56 per hundred. To this rate must be addt tax of approximately a half of one cent and icing. charges of : the car. Taken together all these extra, charges and the freigk the 45 cent cost at the lemon grove. added, would make the shi? average around $2.13 a box when landed in this city when car load lots. Naturally this man began to see red when he tomptf ures and he feels, he says, like calling for a grand jury n of the business methods of the local commission men. whoflf. lieves are combined to hold up prices in this city and vicinity as partners in a far reaching scheme to control all the grfc ducts that arc normally shipped to this city for distribution. Frc This man was formerly a purchaser in large quantities ' provisions from Overton, Nevada. Just the other day tains and grasping corporations. 45 cents a box A |