Show S THE RATE QUESTION I TN THE SUBJECT of freight rates r tes I I 1 I from the east ea t and other points to poInts In In Utah the Commercial club of Salt Lake will find matter thoroughly worthy of its earnest consideration i iThe The Herald is glad the club has taken t kei keithe the question up It Is one of vital Im Ira Importance I not only to Salt Lake City CUy I but to every city in the state and to i every citizen of Utah The man who ho does not ship anything or have any anything anything I thing shipped to him may think the J rate question makes no difference to him but it does The manufacturer pay the theft ft freight eight the jobber pay the freight the wholesaler pay pay It t the retailer pay It Who does oes pay the freight then Why the con consumer consumer consumer sumer and nobody else He I pay ay a apart part of or it either he pays it i 1 all ill alt to the last cent with perhaps a little more added for good measure mea r Everybody Ev pays pays his share directly or indirectly for none can escape this in inexorable inexorable collector There are sugar factories in Utah but sugar ugar as cheap here as it is in San Francisco or in New York City The San Francisco provider can buy sugar for nearly a cent a pound less than the Utah provider Why Because Be Because Because cause of the freight rates Salt S lt ought It to 0 bo be cheaper in Utah Ulah than anywhere In the world There are arc billions of ot tons of salt almost within a stones throw of this city Yet we all know that refined salt costs just as much here as it costs costs anywhere In the United States The salt trust has a good deal to do with this fact even as the sugar trust has ha a good goo deal to do with the price of sugar but the freight rates are con considered considered considered in making prices on products Just as surely as manufacturers regulate their charges by the tarIff These matters matt rs may profitably be looked into by b the club of Salt Lake City Here Is another Why is it possible to ship goods from New NewYork York or Chica Chicago go to San Sara Francisco at a lower lc er rate than than from either of those points to Salt Lake The railroad man answers that it is In because there Is water corn com competition petition from the east cast to San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco deco while an an rate must be made to Salt Lake City The absence Oi of competition they will tell you jus justifies justifies titles their robbery of the people of or Utah On the same principle if one on manown man owned own d all aU the flour in the world he would be justified in n placing bread brea be beyond beyond yond yand the reach of the poor But would wo ld he be allowed to do so Would not public sentiment s be so bitter against him that he would be forced to reasonable rees terms The Herald would like e to see the Commercial club institute institute tute proceedings against the railroads before the interstate commerce com corn commission commission mission We might not no derive any ny im immediate Immediate Immediate mediate benefit from that source but we could at least ascertain just where w We stand and why wh |