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Show B. L. BOOTH DENIES CHARTER'S STATEMENTS. Editor Telegram: In your Issue of Mav 31 I note a letter let-ter from A. W. Charter, a local walking walk-ing delegate, in which he rants about what he terms "the time check system." In answer to the same will respectfully say that a number of statements made by him therein are utterly false. In the first place the Booth Mercantile Mercan-tile company is not nor ever was a company store, nor has any official or other person connected with either smelter a dollar's Interest in the store or the business of the Booth Mercantile Mercan-tile company. ' We have never held any rebates out of any one's check for any Greek agent or other person. The only thing that is held out of their checks is what they owe us at the store and for their board at the respective boarding houses, unless un-less by a direct order In writing signed by the party asking us to deduct same from his check. No employee of either of these smelters smelt-ers is compelled or urged in any manner, man-ner, shape or form to buy goods from ua (other than In soliciting orders, the same as all business men do), nor do their positions depend on their buying goods from us. They are as free to buy where they choose as is the wealthiest man in the United States. If they do not owe anything they get the face value of their checks Just as freely as they would get the money on a bank check. , No "honest workingman" who wants to pay his honest debts has any complaint com-plaint to make, as he gets every dollar yes, every cent that is due him, but It is the ones who would like to beat someone out oi what Justly belongs to them who have the "holler" coming. It is to catch this class of men that this "damnable system," that acts as a sieve to separate the chaff from the wheat, was Inaugurated. Could the editor of this paper see the number of board bills that are "beaten" and the number of store bills that are "Jumped," causing aloss of thousands of dollar each year to honest people by the so-called much abused working-man working-man he would readily see why the "time check system" was a necessity. . R. L. BOOTH, Manager Booth Mercantile Co. West Jordan, Utah. |