| Show cli chants antS 0 9 T aasc past rast lind and present Ires ous but apparently stud studied us attempt is being made in ill orp organs org ans na of this city to im lit bitof of the gentile merchants tt arid and cradit g in this valley la Is referred to do not directly merchants with wild bankruptcy euch nuch more artful and as they suppose oppose more sure way of ng the coup de grace to the sir r merchants than by openly thus intimations concern of business shelves ill il merchandize merchandise dize without cus uy empty tills with ith arg urgent ent round these with insinuations are used to ac at sore more direct attacks com same source would be pow t even it if there was the man kake adf theme them 1 the I he last number ct bews yews the more able and lot of these journals in its lead aj 1 under tinder the beading of mer monetary affairs indulges and fully and we believe 1 in a its statements and ning filing the ci edit ct burmer our roer ld lad and their standing as citi ian an any article we have yet id ed in ili regard to then them and ifft if it wn wherever ohp ati anra orr circa is the obedient organ of the opposed to every thing ody that is ia opposed to that to its foul corruptions corrupt ions some in bents contained in the article night be of injury to th the e class assailed in it tor for nothing is I 1 to the touch as credit and rates more prejudicially to a n than statements calculated distrust and doubts conr ins his solvency or integrity of business men have been textually and as disastrously il cements cements as they could have or any other means by which I 1 labor maybe may be destroyed and 0 o every trading and business and reputation for corhon hon the law guards ie jealous care his business iid id standing that it throws reputation this fact the acus should well know J aa a fa ludge by virtue zile ofal a e territory conferring upon its the powers which else only to courts of common ancery jurisdiction and it i lid judge and editor is igno u well ell known principle of law ly until unfit for the duties of the is aware of it he violates in lot editor the rights and sanc as a judge it is his bis duty to I 1 protect in either case lie he he knows nothing about I 1 in fact untrue and then at report rep orl his own ground groundless les ll 11 it if reports are true lie he teater part odthe adventurers ha have goite home to obtain exit t of any railroads that have aced running westward from I 1 nor of any mail facilities thic hie line but of their thair credit ife ie this report we have that the greater part of the and traders who mho have gone lere bere iere this fall went because of their stocks and i occasion for their remaining ii the winter inter vi of 0 the one here bers of regular houses here me lue east we presume that it cicula for any man mail to state d gone there to obtain an lyex ex heir credit cred though possibly ight come in to aid the Imper leisge of the editor ft cf the jd A enable him to make the i now we propose instead of ij 11 furnish the editor of the dij U the public etith ith some Bomea facts cd i the relative 1 standing of some ers and lid traders ra derail in this territory errit ory we have been at trouble to obtain a list at of to ascertain ahat opinions ily held in regard to the mod of cism sni and also ely result to themselves and to ors rs of these different lercari iding concerns our inquiry bulter i in the attainment of the acts 9 13 up to the time at which the into this vall jr more than the bhole number of firms file establishments that tra alley and purchased goods st amounted amount Bd to thirty of een firms brins and single traders lile ile ten diore p was com composed of both geri gen rmon the gentile houses baj a ad the full for roods goods purchased at the east the mixed mormon and gentile house bouse did the same while only two out of the ten tell mormon merchants who obtained their goods on oil credit have paid the full amount of their indebtedness without in in some way nay compromising with their creditors yd compounding their debts debs one or tw 0 of the number paid the principal of their debts debt s leaving their creditors the loss of set e 1 at al years ears interest justly due upon them others have paid a bare coety of their indebtedness while i bile the larger portion of them have paid nothing at all or art an amount so trifling as to bear scarcely any proportion to the sums which abich the they justly owed the only two men out of the ten different establishments w i ho raid paid mp HP fairly and squarely all that they owed were vere mr air win wen nixon at ar present a merchant of this city and thomas S williams esq and it gives us pleasure to record the fact concerning them it I 1 13 indeed refreshing to meet with such instances af punctuality inthe in the midst of such general defection these gentlemen have the rare merit of bearg faithful among the faithless but of mr air williams it must be said that although he paid the I 1 full all about of his personal liabilities I 1 contracted it bile eng aged in himself I 1 be afterwards afterward after wara s formed an tate late business alliance with nith a member of he Alor mormon trion church and the paper of athis this firm like that of neary all the houses I 1 in in m which aich mormons cormons concerted concerned suffered a depreciation and was at len length th parted carted with at a discount though thou h before this his was done mr williams parted with his us interest in in the concern at it a nominal rate and his partner assumed the payment of the debts owing by the firm we could it if our space permitted and we thought it necessary add some apter esting facts acts in regard to the manner in which some of these mormon adaven jurers frers and traders closed their concerns and the means adopted by them in in conjunction with certain high dignitaries of the mormon church to chisel their creditors out of the sums which they justly owed but we forbear at present believing bel eh leving eving that N we e have said enough to close the mouths of those wbk m bc 4 are in the habit of prating about gentile merchants it and predicting their downfall if IE the columns of the journals here were sometimes employed in in urging their own delinquent adventurers an and it traders to pay their honest bonest debts they m would perform a more useful service to justice justic ethan than in ili fabricating statements about the hie deficiencies of others and their who ho krow the them m zilow ahat they are a docent of one word morein more in regard to the decline of trade and the gloomy prospects ahead for the merchants here and we will ill dw dig wl miss miss this subject for the present it is is not always proof because a restaurant res ta closes or men change cladge their boarding houses that it is is owing to a cie decline cl ine or want of success in fiade ti ade other causes sometimes tines produce such char changes ps and though the trade here is not so bris brisk knor nor profits so high as they were last year still nearly if not all the merchants of this city are doing a fair business and at remunerative rates |
