Show THE breadstuff QUESTION YESTERDAY an article appeared in the NEWS which treated upon the steady local rise in the price of breadstuffs bread stuffs and the probability it might be said certainty of a further farther increase within a few days it was laid down sit as a rule that when farmers obtain a round price for products general business bu W was as rendered pr proportionately prosper ous such inch a statement needs some qualification fi for it is equally true that it if thel nerease in price is due to scarcity the reverse of prosperity is the natural result when there is a plentiful harvest and good prices for cereals ta is the rule prosperity necessarily follows i but even if the harvest be large if price cesare Nare so low as not to properly remunerate the agriculturist the territory suffers it is exceedingly difficult to maintain fair fa ir prices rices in utah as they only run rua big high in scarce times which are injurious to the general weal the reason for this is that there is no n organization for combined action on the tae part bartot of agriculturists in this territory to control contro I 1 the market so that their products will command respectable prices even when there is plenty both as regards shipments to outside markets and home consumers it has occurred occasionally that very lare shipments have lis acae out of the territory when by holding to breadstuffs bread stuffs for a reasonable time but bot ter prices could have aten obtained at home dome we have a recollection of one season which exemplified this fact several years ago A great deal of wheat was carried to california the drain was so great that flour was afterwards im borred back thus a large amount of money was needlessly sunk sank in railroad rates and other expenses from handling and the loss of work for the home mills we are not prepared to take the position unqualifiedly that the present high price and probable fluture in cresse crease in the rates of breadstuffs bread stuffs will cori conduce duce to any extent to the prosperity of tho the territory so far as we can karn learn it does not result from present copious shipments of wheat to other markets but hasi has ensued partly from a comparatively light harvest and from shipments made in the early part of the season had the wheat been held it would probably have realized a price here sufficiently in excess of what it brought by shipment to denver to have bave compensated for the retention if the millers of utah had bad combined to ral raise sethe the price of wheat by offering a rate a little in advance of that offered by denver dealers the prosperity oi of toe the territory would would have haie been materially sub served they lost a golden opportunity by not doing so and are now hampered ham perea by difficulty in getting sufficient tor for their needs some of the millers complain however that large s shipments hip ments of utah wheat were made without their being given an opportunity to compete with the denver men aud and state that hat had the chance been accorded them they would have taken advantage of it the present conditions in relation to the value of breadstuffs bread breads stuffs tafts should teach tte the saints wisdom A day of grear rea scarcity will soon come the bombl co abi nations that will produce that result t are rapidly ripening and the wiser wise will understand the predictions that have been made on OB this subject are or should be familiar to all Be because caulle the evil day has had not yet arrived when the ery cry for oread dread will KO go up from every part of the earth some imagine that a mistake has been made the only difference between the past and present in regard to these prophetic statements is that aney are much nearer fulfillment fulfilment than formerly all who can do it should take steps toward protecting themselves against the miseries of the evil day whan ahn it shall come upon u on the she people as a thief in the night |