Show THE MIDDLE MANS MAN'S GRAFT I For Foi over two years rears past there have been intermittent inter inter- complaints of the outrageous charges made madeN N ill iii tI this is cit city for the common necessaries of life There have been intermittent attempts to change things but all ll haVe havo ended in failure The Tho same is true of nearly in in the country and behind it all the only f is is that there thero is a great league of men organised organized organized organ organ- to rob rich and poor alike by unnatural and un un- unholy h holy ly charges for what all people have to use every j of their lives is H-is worse in San Francisco and other cities in ill than it is here but the same system is isa q a ork rk here that is there and unless it is broken p h it mat result will be that under unbearable In J P people llo rill mutiny and there will be a civil city charges a license to every ery farmer that thatto J S t to bring in his farm products to retail them license was put on under the plea of merchants whereas they had to pay heavy license these 10 e 0 from the country could bring in their sup- sup and nd sell them first hand to residents and that Taut out a license the city was was in fact discriminating f aror Vor of these e men from the country 4 U It looked to be a fair thing it looked to be only tt t. for a license to be put on men who come here t tn pe with ith other men who had lad to pay a license t do a business not only license but rents and other incases incident t to keeping a store in the tho cit city But I fc ceased to be a a. a fair arrangement when these ber merchants ff after the tho license was put on which t. t farmers out b begin began g n to dictate to farmers what pay for their pr products ducts And there is no way that we know of to stop that e eX Opt to repeal this S ordinance which imposes a aUe Ue license iise on oil producers On beef on vegetables vegetable on fruit on eggs on butter but- but teI ter and Ind nd plenty plant of other things the poor man who vho S. S by lly the month in Salt Lake City pays to the goer r er per cent more than the grocer pays pas for m article and the grocer is not altogether to blame b this trust compels him to make these charges a f he refuses he is boycotted bo and ostracized and cannot do business T If an Italian fisherman goes out in the bay or just Outside the heads at San Francisco and catches a argo cargo cargo of fish and brings it in he has to sell it at what say he shall sell it for and when they get It th they y put 25 cents a pound on the fish fish and if they cannot sell all that is brought in rather than I reduce reduce- the price to the poor they dump it back into i ithe the ba bay It is that principle that goes on here A cargo of cantaloupes and melons come up from val val- valley ley Icy and they are bought by the crate for a little more than tho the retailers here sell half a dozen dOlen cantaloupes for Go to the butcher shop and a steak costs from 20 I f I I to 23 cents a pound If a gentleman gives for a dozen 1 1 I other gentleman a beefsteak breakfast at a J J place of entertainment he pa pays pay's 8 for the beef bee for the breakfast just about as much as as 88 the butcher paid aid for fOl the whole animal To cure this effectually the states will ill have to unite and pass laws with p penalties But right here now not for a n eure cure but for fOl a relief tho the first thing the city council ought to do for this city is to re repeal re- re peal the license charged farmers for peddling their products in the town because the mass of the working working work work- ing people in the town are arc poor men working for small salaries and th they y ought to have instant relief Aside Asido from that a n stranger looking for a n place to settle when lie ho visits a town takes cognizance of what he ho has to meet The first thing he looks into is the fo food d problem And with this crowd it is easy for them in a single night to raise the price of bread to tho the poor 3 cents a n loaf and und the study of tho the managers managers managers man man- agers is to see how much the people will stand without without with with- out an uprising The Tic first thing that the tho council ought to do is isI isto I to strike off that license charged to farmers and enable enable en en- able them to bring in their supplies to sell them at wholesale or retail as they plea please e. e That will begin to cure the difficulty difficult a little and it is a matter of vital importance to the tho city There are great gatherings to be bo hero here Iere this summer and there are people coming coining here every day to settle there arc are hosts and hosts of men and women at work with whom it is hard work to live ive under present rates Our earnest recommendation to the council is to repeal that ordinance which keeps the farmer out and try it for three months If in that time no remedy is worked then something else will have ha to tobe tobe tobe be tried But as we said above the thing will not be bo cured until the states take it up in concert and with penalties penalties penalties pen pen- for extortion and with provisions in the statutes statutes stat stat- utes to enforce the penalties this wrong to the people and th this danger to the republic will increase every everyday everyday everyday day until finally it will become unbearable |