Show THE KELLXER FAILURE Of course everybody hare will sympathize sympa-thize with Mr KELLNER the East Temple street merchant who was forced to the wall yesterday morning and had to close his doors turning over his stocK and accounts to creditors The gentleman has been with us only a few months it is true but his acquaintance ac-quaintance has been a pleasant one and he has made many friends here who will regret re-gret that misfortune has overtaken him In this connection another matter should be mentioned This is the only commercial x commer-cial failure of any magnitude which has occurred in this city for many years Indeed In-deed while it is small in the amount i involved in-volved as compared with failures elsewhere else-where it is perhaps one of the largest which ever happened here and will necessarily neces-sarily occasion some comment In mercantile and financial circles of the east It is not apprehended that it will have much of an injurious effect ef-fect on the standing of other local commercial com-mercial houses yet it will be only natural I if an inquiry shall be made to learn if the causes which led to the downfall of Mr KELLNBR exist as to other houses in fact if there IS fin specml reason there JIa41 u why 1LL1a0 should be apprehension and nervousness regarding the mercantile concerns of Salt Lake We aro confident that such an inquiry in-quiry will not prove injurious in any respect re-spect On the contrary it will demonstrate that trade is in a healthy condition that merchants doing a legitimate business are in no trouble and that the outlook is peculiarly pe-culiarly bright and promising The going down of Mr KELIACR is not chargeable to any unhappy or unhealthy condition of things commercially in this community nor can it be attributed to the financial stringency of which we hear so much The cause of the failure fail-ure may bo found readily It lies j in two thingsfirst the lack of sufficient suffi-cient capital with which to carry on the large business which the gentleman set out to do and second in the inability to attract custom Trade is not built up and established estab-lished in a day In a place like Salt Lake where competition is close and shrewd men are in it the building up of a trade takes L f time as well as energy and Mr KELLNER we assume didnt have the capital upon t which to exist until profitablo business J was established In other words his expenses 1 ex-penses simply ate him up before he had I created a business out of which to make those expenses Tho failure cuts no figure whatever in I Salt Lakes mercantile status and it cannot I can-not be used as an argument that the city IB i not in its ordinarily prosperous ana safe conditon |