Show X SALT SAIT LAKE CITY sept 1869 mr editor all questions that are proposed and agitated by the presidency of tile the church have a significance and imp importance f artance and demand more than a passing thought or a few days observance and none more so than the question of operation cooperation co the movement has elicited the hearty approval of the transient visitor it has been commended as good forecast and statesmanship I 1 and as the correction of the specula speculative speculating tin tiG abuses inseparable from trade and commerce om under the old system A hearty endorsement of all the views touching this question was wag given by the irrepressible train but while the casual observer sees so much to admire do dos s this great movement find the heart hearty and unqualified support that it should does it demand today loday lo to today day the careful adherence to its pro gramme of every buyer that it should does everyman every man of prominence use hla hia influence to have the means of the people flow in the proper channel helping to make this great experiment a complete success this enterprise was wag the first to inaugurate low figures as the prices of goods now and formerly will show 1 I quote best articles nails formerly 21 today to day 10 lo 10 stoves 60 42 to 45 sugar I 1 35 c 44 4 4 brown muslin best today to day 20 19 17 l ii ii 91 1 bleached 20 to 32 16 to 30 denims denims 21 to 35 19 to 30 hickories 20 to 32 19 to 33 apron checks 2411 24 to 38 21 to 35 what ha has produced this astonishing reduction in a prices not the mere difference ia in freight charges now and six months ago but the adherence to pledges made I 1 say therefore that this movement should not be considered as a tool merely to provoke others to sell cheaper simply because they are compelled by virtue of operation cooperation co but it should be sustained by all from gratitude principle and duty it should command patronage on the tho high moal principle of benefactions bene factions conferred and the question should be not where I 1 can ao 30 do tile the best today to day but where I 1 ought to trade who broke the barriers of high prices the answer is the parent operative cooperative co and if every overy purchaser felt this and did his whole duty well the principle sought to be solved would permeate all the avenues of trade the main consideration has not been how much can be made or how much this or that article would bear but how lofcan low can we deal safely and justly with the stockholders funds had this not been the motive then the gap of depreciation in prices consequent on causes beyo beyond d control might not have occurred rut aut but the pledges and determination mi nation that while the people and the bishops those cabinet ministers were called upon to sustain their movement all just cause of complaint should be removed and the people have cheap goods has that pledge been maintained let the figures 0 above quoted tell the wisest and greatest schemes I 1 having for their sole object the good of the tho great mass will fall to the ground unless sustained by hearty and unceasing ceas operation cooperation co even the scheme to redeem the world spiritually must have a christ to bring in a happy and glorious perhaps all the details and workings out were not made known to him but nothing short of his hearty operation cooperation co to make his fathers scheme a success could have enabled him to say not inot illy my will but thine ba 3 done and at last to say fatherict Fa therIt father it is finished 11 in the peculiar organization of our church what are we all but the avowed disciples of one man who by choice ordination ac have promised adherence to the policy proposed for our adoption and whose highest aim it should be lae so long as we make our profession fes sion to make these schemes a success true in the midst of a transition from one state to another some jadw few may suffer but the masses are grebene ben c fitted it would be better today to day a thousand per cent if in all the avenues of trade and in all our secular pursuits we had wise judicious men to advise in the expenditure of the tho several sums of money seeking investment so as to bring into the tho several settlements the varied machinery needed some time ago one of our superior mechanics seeing the impoverished condition of one of the settlement settlements sand and the miles miler the people had to travel to get needed mill privileges built two very fine ones a saw and grist presently the cries were raised 1 extortion it competition ie is the life lire of trade free trade and sailors rights ac which do well for england perhaps but the consequence was another mill no 2 was erected to modify no 1 and then no 3 was to be built and now that town runs 25 miles to get got wool carded ac I 1 ac hence competition is not the life of trade but as in in this and hundred hundreds hun dreda ti of cases that might be named it was its death for where so much competition exists the spirit that suggested co opera tion the greatest gooda goodgo to the greatest number is needed for a balance the parent operative cooperative co here has seated itself to control the wholesale and retail markets it looks and demands perforce of our position our unqualified support and this it must have or else elso let us forego the one recall the other and pull down the signs and be I 1 like ike the rest of t the world yours observer OBSERVES VER TOOELE sept 1869 MB MR EDITOR editon in this city we have been blessed and profited the past season by the dealing out butof of goods by our cooperative institution which I 1 think has hal thus far done a very fair bu business s iness the only competition being mr arn N dunyan who has now sold his entire stock to S A cotter who I 1 am int informed ormed I 1 will continue the business heretofore carried on by mr dunyan crops are good wheat nearly all thrashed abundance of bread stuffs and the people generally happy L GEE A halfbreed half breed captured by a vigilance committee in kansas for murder and about to be hanged told the committee that he would hang himself accordingly he put the rope round his neck climbed the three and jumped off declaring that he had killed six men and would have doubled the number in a few days he closed his brief speech with curses and execrations exec rations |