Show S ANTIGREENGROCER vAn and Advocating Justice An Epistle Fairness for the reddlers FABMINGTON June 15th 1885 To the Editor of THE HEBALD THE HEBALD of Saturday 13th inst intimates that the greengrocers mean business as against country peddlers and I etc I am not a greengrocer dread the professional peddler as do the Salt Lake housewives referred to by the greengrocery men and dis But I am a lover of justice like to see inconsistentlaws passed In this case far too many persons who depend on selling their produce for a living or part of it will wait for their neighbors to argue the other side of the question I take up my cudgelshaped pen and proceed to write things that may help to reconcile the greengrocery men to their hard C teand though the thrifty housewife may continue to DC annoyed by her accommodating country coun-try cousin she can console herself with reckoning the difference between walking walk-ing several blocks to purchase a few bushels ot peaches of the greengrocery kings at their prices and the cost of the same delivered fresh from tha orchards of her own cousins City revenue and detriment to licensed li-censed dealers are important points in their petition which can be answered by referring to the old proverb that laws should be made to do the greatest good to the greatest number Supply and demand answers the question and if there are too many grocers let them come out into another county and help us hoe corn and bind grain awhile1 Then they will not be so apt to begrudge be-grudge the country farmer the few dollars dol-lars he gets by selling a little surplus fruit vegetables etc The liberal grocer would allow us till 10 oclock to dispose of our products to consumers After 10 they would no doubt offer such terms as brave but conquered people always have to accept of then conquering masters If Salt Lake City belonged to a foreign power we might expect to pay a duty for even eitering its sacred precincts but until that event does occur let us bv all means have the free privilege we always have had of assisting to build it up without lear of being fined for selling sell-ing a water melon or a load ot potatoes to its hungry citizens One more point that the petition builders forgot to mention is the health fullness of fruit as an article of diet Several bushels of homeraised fruit made into preserves with homeraised molasses and used by every Utah family would save thousands of dollars dol-lars worth of fruit being imported here every year An increase of rain has made tho outdoor fruitdrying business nearly a failure This doesnt Shakespearelike make cowards of us all But it comes near makingpeddlers of us all A great dislike to seeing luscious fruit waste its sweetness on the desert air mingled with a little fondness of the filthy lucre drove your correspondent intothe fruitsoiling business last peach timer and he can bear witness that a i great many Salt Lake families were convinced con-vinced by his arguments on the fruit and health question that it was better to put up a few bushels of preserves than to spend their money foolishly And if a petitioners wife seemed annoyed an-noyed at answering my call an invitation invita-tion to eat my samples would dispel all wrath and the time taken up would not be missed by her as much as the fruit samples by mvself The City Council will please take a liberal view of the subject and instead of confining the fruit sales more especially es-pecially to a few hundreds of bushels sold at middlemens rates leave the matter as it now is so that thousands of bushels can be sold at producers rates instead of rdtting in honest grangers gardens And your correspondent with the greengrocer petitioners will eyer pray C T |