Show cooperation OPERATION CO for a long time it has seemed to mo me that thab many of our merchants in salt lake city arg are doing business under false colors or signs with none but the kindest of feelings towards them indeed they are my personal friends mostly I 1 fael feel it due to the cause of co opera operation tion tinn to say that though they are doing business under the sign of zions operative cooperative co institution has their business any more connection wi with t h the parent institution than that of t the h e outsider in the country DI did d their business change its base at the time they put up those signs or did it continue the same as before these signs are calculated to beguile and mislead country people divide the trade check the prosperity of the parent institution defeat the great and good design by forcing the parent institution ution to put a higher tariff upon their goods than it otherwise would if it had the whole patronage of the country in the latter case the parent institution could sell so low that it would be no object for an outsider to bring goods to utah or to salt lake city and thus operation cooperation co would drove prove our shield and our defence I 1 can any real friend of zion allow that sign to be over his door who is not virtually entitled to it Is it not a counterfeit in the name of holiness to the lord Is it not a berbesque ber lesque and libel upon the real institution Is it not stealing the livery of heaven to serve self and the devil in I 1 dont know how these matters look to the people but the above awesome of my reflections could I 1 wield the pen as I 1 once could I 1 would enlarge upon this subject and feel it a duty and a pleasure to do so 40 but this must suffice for the present it appears to me signs should be looked after for in the tile last lask days we arii they will appear peal ORSON OKSON H HYDE ryde Y D E springtown Spring town aug 1 1869 |