| Show PE PEDDLING D D L IN G AND exchanging ING PRODUCTS LE ail ali aug 8 iss issi 1 edat editor r deseret vou you iu I 1 dear sir will you please to ex plain the law relating to peddling licenses and how it will affect the residents of southern utah almost every family on the rio virgen either goes or sends a team with molasses to iron beaver sevier or sanpete counties to exchange for flour for the consumption of their families this is exchanged a few gallons at a time for wheat as the purchasers may wish have they got to get a license licence for this or can they do as in times past without breaking the law if they cannot it will be a very serious hardship to those people who are dependent gendena on these counties for their breadstuffs read bread stuffs respectfully yours W T the law to which our correspondent alludes was passed at the last session of the legislature and provides that no person shall be permitted to carry on the business of merchants retailers peddlers etc etc without first obtaining a license from the county courts in their respective spec tive counties we do not understand this to cover the cases mentioned in the above letter the intent of the law is riot not to prevent the interchange inter change of commodities les among the producers thereof but to place the merchant and the peddler on an equitable footing it is not fair to charge a license fee for carrying on a business in a store and none for the same thing without a store the storekeeper pays rent or is ia at similar expense for the tile use of money invested in a building of his own while the peddler retailing the same kind of wares has no renu rent to pay the business of the peddler is similar to that of the merchant the only difference being that one is station stationary arv and tile the other itinerary if a license licence should be paid by the former it ought to be paid by the latter but the position of the farmer who raises products of a certain kind and exchanges them for othar prod products lct iet let is different from that of the pe peddler addler or the merchant would any on one e claim that a farmer who buys groceries or dry goods with molasses wheat or potatoes should be required to take out a peddlers license we think not should he be considered consi dereda a peddler aier aler tf if he buys wheat with molasses or molasses with wheat or makes an exchange of any other kind in the way described by our correspondent we understand the new law to apply to those who carry on obe the lousiness business of peddlers iera lera aud and not to persons who carry on tiie tile business ot of farming and who for mutual advantage go to other settlements and exchange products with those who raise something that they need but cannot produce with the hame bame profit or facility the daiv is just and reasonable as it stands and construed according to its language and plain intent but would be unjust and unreasonable if made to a apply P ply in Z the manner mauner complained of by bi our correspondent it if a license should be demanded under such circumstances cum stances or a prosecution r I 1 ose cution be attempted let the pa farmer r mer contest the matter and a judicial opinion would soon set the question at rest we think the farmers are safe in proceeding as of old unless they go into the business of peddling for a livelihood liveli hoed |
