Show lJ i One Item of Living Cost CostI I F C ACTS arrayed by bj Mr D. D F. F Smith in his inI in- in I address to 10 the State Horticultural S society in ill Ogden on Tuesday concern the conI consumer con con- I sumer no ho less than the producer Mr r. r Smith was addressing the tho and tho the subject matt matter mat mat- t ter was naturally handled largely from the producers producer's producers producer's pro pro- i ducer's dueer's standpoint yet it was so able an nit exposition of one ono of tho the primo causes of the high cost of living hero here and elsewhere that it should have hao careful careful care enre- i ful reading A A. liberal excerpt from rom it was published pub pub- I in ill the news e columns of The 1 lican yeat yesterday rda and it should awaken the tho readers I of this paper to a n really serious condition Il Many persons are aro familiar with tho the fact that fruit even in Salt Lako tho the center of one of the I greatest fing districts in tho tile United I S States costs the ultimate e consumer four and five ir-e irei i 1 11 a times tho the price received by ly the grower yet there I J e ire tro many more moro who do not understand this and andI I J 1 j to these Mr fro Smiths Smith's address should prove provo of deep 11 interest The Tho injustice falls alike unon UDon the two t. t I extremes of the transaction tho the producer receiving ii ing much 1 than he should and the tho consumer paying much more moro than ho lie ought The ono one con condition condi iI i- i I I tio tion reduces tho the prosperity of tho the grower and tho the I other places a heavy y burden burdell upon the people direct The middlemen alone alono profit by tho the transaction I It is evident that their charges aro are d disproportionate f 4 to tho the service they render r and that many 1 of them subsist like parasites upon a system to which they contribute little of real service seIr The I problem which their activities presents to tho the peo- peo 1 is that of substituting for them some agency arreney 4 that will accept as its lis fee only a n just commission a 1 h IU t O W J mJ U V HA In A 14 A hi i i square d deal that h the they arc now denied i Mr Smith n hed fe fet 1 and the he other e growers o of t the state state- would meet the t 12 problem by organizing a distributing agency This I i. i s idea seems c. c excellent if it can bo be controlled and 1 prevented from using its power to exercise arbitrary arbitrary arbi arbi- control of prices 1 The speaker also touched upon the tho necessity i 1 of or a public market in which producer and conI consumer con con- I 1 sumer Burner might deal directly without the intervention von inter b 11 j tio tion of the middleman to the profit of both The Thc market idea is approved by all classes of persons I except perhaps tho the small amaH grocers rp and commission i men yet it E seems ems impossible to interest community 1 government in establishing it |