Show r TURF EXCHANGE LICENSE MATTER We Vc notice that the council didn't have time to consider the turf ex exchange hange license business at its lost last meeting We Vc hope that it will have time at is HI next meeting because that is something that must b be bi seen to There are i z 4 great many b business businessmen siness men sensible on every other subject who buy chances that exchange change on on horses in other are e great many clerks in town who slip awa away avay and put a few dollars in the same great maw That is all Salt Lake money and about 7 8 out of 10 thus thu paid in goes ou out of of t the iJ or I i every O Estate in the finances of the city it is ismore 15 I l It IS is a wound In mor more or less a taint tain on the morals of the city and why such an establishment having havi g permission to ilo business here shall be discriminated in favor of the ordinary citizen cannot see If a man has a aj ar astock j r f. f stock stocIe of goods to get them located in a favorable f place to sell them he has to pay z heavy rental Then th the assessor assessor comes along and asks him wh what t his stock is worth and nd makes him either tell the the 1 0 truth truth truth-or or commit perjury and the taxes are levied j on that basis In addition the licen license e collector and If want to do lo o business conies mes along says sas you all aU the make must be made out of v 1 profit you ou the e people th t buy goods of you Now it costs a at t great deal of money to carry carryon on the business big bigand and arid little of a cit city like this to see that the streets 1 are Jare re fix fixed fixl tO S Q that tl J is s 's kept lpt Pt to see that an fires fire maintained and that efficient department is the city is kept advancing We Ve see b by the assessment assessment assess assess- i ment roll that you have brought your goods here f ard calculate to make money selling them That b you ou must pay your your proportion of the cost of protecting you and your goods and of keeping keeping keep keep- ing ins the city growing so that you OU will ivill have ha customers custo custo- mers iners and your license will be per month t But here are some other men that do not bring any capital here they hire a small establishment where the rents are not excessive two ho or three of Jf f them conduct the whole business and what they Nay say tay in effect is this We know how prone human haman human hu hu- man man nature is to take chances We have come here to o offer you ton LII opportunity We Ve have private wires wres from El Paso from Oakland and oth other r where whre races are being pulled off ever every day We know in the morning hat v lat horses are going to torun run we know what the sentiment around those horses is as to their chances for winning and we weare are authorized to sell you those chances Mr y Smith or Mr Jones yesterday bought a chance chance on who rated to in the Impossible was Vas only one eight I pol p ol He Ho paid us 20 and and last night we had to pay him He had won out and out without t any r-any n ny effort fIort on Us part They neglect to state that Mr Jones and Mr Richards and Mr Jensen and Mr Christenson and Mr r. r Evans and Mr McFadden L and Mr OBrien O'Brien and Mr Anderson and twenty j 1 J her oI r gentlemen representing nearly all the thc n na- na of the strong races of Europe and X America merica put in 20 each and they didn't get anyS anything anything any- any S thing back and that on the days day's b business siness the house cleared about All that part they refrain from from- i telling l Hing about And so that for their c. c on own on n expenses and their pro rata of the profits was Oakland El EI Paso to tent sent awa away to or to or G some me ot other cr point the town was out that much some men put In in their money who ought to have bought i bread for their babies b bies and some clerks put in inv inI I p. v their money who had promised to take their girls l t to Saltair Saturday r night and now thc they will win either 4 1 have to stay at home or borrow the monc money But t. t through some inscrutable arrangement those geni gen- gen i tic men that in a smiling gracious way rob the peo- peo pie a pIe a voluntary rob of course pay course pay no license l If I the thc truth could be kl known own w wo presume they would y have llave nothing to burn up that they do I t not riot nee ce t l any protection or they thoy do not care whether or 01 not the town advances but all aU the s me to the ordinary dull thinker it looks as though they ought to share with the merchant and I pay a license for doing that kind of business here and people cannot understand the indifference of his honor the mayor and the council in not exacting exacting exact exact- ing a license from those men nien and on once e more we call the thc attention of the authorities to the fact that there is i's a concern doing business here which drains this town of of many many thousands of dollars every month and pays no license |