Show I The Itinerant Peddler 14 or 1 I 4 41 EVERY 1 ERY city is overrun with transient peddlers peddlers' ped- ped J diers and night fly merchants merchants' who operate to the detriment of the legitimate local merchants who have established business busi ness ness employ local help and pay taxes The transient seller is a nuisance from every standpoint He Ic harasses the prospective prospective tive purchaser to to whom he usually offers in inferior inferior in in- merchandise He never stands back of I his wares because he is here today and gone tomorrow usually leaving a trail of disSatisfied fied fled customers He enters into no long leases pays no taxes supports no institutions and hires no local people In short the transient peddler is isa a parasite Kansas City has recently passed a stringent gent ordinance which i confidently believed will wilt furnish Adequate protection to legitimately legitimate legitimate- ly established d merchants and to the public The ordinance covers the case not only of the itinerant t who makes his deliveries as he goes but the type of merchant who takes lakes orders for future deliveries It provides for br a ax tax x of 1 o a a. a day for those who sell sel or orf i f so t I to sell at at r retail fail without a r regular lar or r permanent established pla e of business in inthe the city Lake City has a somewhat si similar lil r ordinance but too attention Is paid to fo it If this this' ordinance e was drastically drastically- enforced it would prove of great be benefit to Salt to-Salt O Salt Lake City as a whole The chamber of commerce should interest itself to the end nd t that at ev every ry itinerant pe peddler idler or merchant i is t taken ken oy over r th the jumps so that he will vm long remember this this' city as an unsatisfactory place ir in tf which to peddle |