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Show Adopt a Cash Basis. With the incrca-e of money in the Territory, the old system of trade and burtcr, of paying pay-ing iu store orders, cabbage head-, squa.-h aud sucking -pigs should ex-are. Such a system of doing business is not only admissablo at times, but was an absolute necessity here for year-. Yet it should cease when the necessity for it no longer exists. The force of habit is hard to overcome, and maDy will cling to this relie of the past until they are compelled to throw it aside. But it may be as well for the people throughout the Territory, and especially espe-cially in this city, to understand that payments in cash must, fVm this on. be the rule, and should be adopted by-all. by-all. Men to-day will say they have difficulty in hiring labor while offering as high wages as others, when the reason rea-son is simply that the others pay currency cur-rency which Ls worth its face wherever presented in this market, unless in purchasing coin, while they offer in payment orders of various vari-ous kinds that are more or less depreciated de-preciated and shaved in their passing around. There has bpen talk of act finding markets for grain, ice., when the fact Is that Utah la to-day importing import-ing graiu and other produce ; and all the produce raised here can be readily disposed of, if got to the line of railway rail-way at moderate expense. It may do f jr some of the extremely remote settlements set-tlements to continue for a time the old system of trading, but it cannot obtain much loDger in this city, or any place contiguous to railroad travel. If a farmer comes to town with a load of grain, he sells it for merchandize if he wishes to buy. It would be just the same if he sold it for money, which he could invest in goods, and keep part of, if he "so desired j but the old habit of holding on to the money prevails, and so the old system of trading goes ou. There are many men who, with the money in their pockets, when making a bargain, will try if hall-a-dozeu different kinds of pay will not be taken; so strong is the force of habit. Let trading be dons on a cash basis; let wares be paid in cash, and paid weekly, fortnightly or monthly; let nien buy for and pay in cash, and a system of bu-ine-s will be inaugiratcd profitable for all, and as pleasant as it will be profitable. We arc a wars many wiil be abje to advance reasons why this cannot be done, but wc have often found "reason "rea-son to be the handmaid of fancy," and beg to give it as our conviction that it will be done before a great while, because be-cause the force of oircunistanees will compel it. |