Show written for this thi paper department STORES contrasted that the present is ie an era of mammoth firms and great project every body knows trusts and combination are more than familiar to the public mind and aad great inroads are being made continually on old od mathous of doing business this modern drift has been denounced and very harsh hareb things have been stid to regard to the purposes and results of these great organizations all of abich have how ever lieen denied where any notice was taken at all the claim leand has baa been that competition bad become so intense that profits had melted away and self protection was waa the only excuse for this condition of unity in manufacturing or production A certain demand being estimated esti muted by pooling it was said that output could follow the market and that a closed factory will mil foundry or productive works of any kind bind was a paying investment whether in operation or in sua suspense Dense there is a beautiful theory in this and it commends to many particularly ticul arly the small manufacturer who perchance bad already felt himself unable to cow compete gets with a more elaborate newer or larger works it ir economy in power expenditure or location gave or had riven any special advantage butts but abe move made a terrible inroad on that individualism which loves lovea to control its own and objects for special reasons to auy supervision these reasons may arise from perso al pride from assumed knowl knowledge dge of markets whether in the buying of raw material or disposing of the finished product location is 18 somewhat of a 8 factor too so maybe may be now new machinery or invention or being an old house or concern with a reputation made in years gone by and a section of trade or country already fairly cla claimed luied as having baving become a personal persona or firm market one in any event to be retained but trade aggression is a strange thing persistence can capture and dissolve ties of business once deemed secure we remember hearing an english commercial man say that he called for twenty years on a desired customer and then secured him as a lasting one and probably probst ly the profit and association was of mutual bent fit AL such a thing though could hardly occur save in the land of steady habit habile P where firms pod and trade descend from father to son where a name is continued after all who bore it have passed away and where the good will of a business is considered worthy of an important pecuniary consideration when transferred from one to another in tais country of magnificent proportions and ever changing features feature these old houses are few and far between trade intimacy to is hardly known save in id some of the new england states stater west of the Alleg banies there is an ever shifting population though chicago st luas denver and some other business points are taking on some of the more staid features of the farther east and there are famous names and firma who in special lines have accumulated fortunes in trade which would have been considered more than princely in the not far distant past now new york was wae for many years considered the trade capital of this wonderful country and it will doubtless retain much of this supremacy there was wag an immense population tributary to tola this great center long before railroads ran beyond chicago and the colossal dry boods coures of A T stewart and H B Claf claflen flo each doing in their tbell palmy omye aye over one million dollars a week gave hints of bili biliti ties ea to which but few brains braim aspired or even attempted abene houses bouses were not particularly aggressive we remember A T stewart say ida that all the country wept oi chicago was waa aberra incognita to him although it was being invaded by the more speculative spirit of bis bin only formidable rival these great and lordly establishments load had their corps of buyers in the central cities and manufacturing points of europe and these theme keen quick witted observant men never allowed any trade movement to elude their consideration they were familiar with the ertain and development of the operative cooperative co idea while the way it expanded and circumscribed many branches was unique and profitable the principle had life in it was popular then sectional in the first form its progress was like romance begin ning in a small mall room to distribute to a few personal friend frienda fri endi finally emer ginor into great warehouses grand mills fast steamers and a trade absorbing and creating millions of pounds in a sec ec dional sense were such as limits limited dehem t selves to lowus or orders factories and foundry stored then the civil service supply P in london and elsewhere the whole including many failures and some grand successes as a matter of 0 carse arse but any nonsuccess need excite no special surprise when we consider that to in the united states business failures aggregate one hundred thousand vet per year vear and those who know say that ninety per cont cent of those engaging in business fall fail some time or other this spirit of ZDA mansing all supplies in one mammoth institution culminated in the creation of the bon marche to in paris this la Is a phenomenon even to in that proud and splendid city it is tile the ne plus ultra of bazars bazaro and tho the gay denizens from the prince to the pro leta riat find it a wonderful place of resort a very lounge as am it were stocked with the products af the world and the veritable base of au supplies plies P for an ardent and economical people this illustration has had the potency of example in this trading land where it maybe may be somewhat of an exotic like operation cooperation co but such department establishments as Wan wanamaker phila delphia delp bla hilton co and macy co new york and field co chicago with many others of lesser magnitude show that there ito id a possibility of its acclimation yet the very effort to la provoking a vast amount of trade hostility it is looked upon as an encroachment croach ment BB as an invasion of the idea that given lines of trade should be separate and rest upon their own foundation dat tori of course the western idea and practice has been to kaep everything in every little store segregation being impossible la le a limited population but it t is said that those these colossal concerns are each like the octopus throwing out its tentacles ten tens acles cles in all directions and closing hundreds of small email stored by the sheer pressure of unlimited means and an unfair competition hence corn com flarnt after eom complaint plaint arise the wholesale trade is IB appealed to and urged that they decline to sell to these aggressive firms the retail trade Is called upon to combine to buy la in unison and to be ready to defend themselves in every possible way legislation la Is urged by others and municipalities pali ties are forewarned that revenues will tell the story of reduced taxation consequent on oil vacant and stores it to is said that these great concerns buy grade goods oft off brands or make their own owe that markets are free but that the avarice ot of capital buys up at all figures from persons persona wanting money bankrupt and other stock which the quiet trader sees not or of if he see in not in a pecuniary condition to utilize that these grasping dealers advertise widely make specialties create excitement and even injure the trade they cannot reach or control now it maybe may be that selfishness selfish nes personal profit la is at the basis of all business that men toil tell speculate buy and sell for profit and that money la Is tte the basis of everything every thing at least in modern times time but it is curious that utah should have furnished the example the illustration of avoiding this thie acerbity in trade ard this selfishness of human nature as exhibited in personal deal deaf in the institution called Z C M J 1 to is an founded on a more philanthropic character it was waa I 1 a tend I 1 to exorcise this spirit of greed and speculation by a combination w which hi c h aimed to be general by creating a mammoth concern for a special purpose and a peculiar people it said we have organized the parent house tor the importation of goods it will sell to you in tints settlement or the other on n a mod orate erate margin now if you combine among yourselves and do your own distributing all the profits save the expenses attached will inure to your selves you need not be overtaxed you yon need make no single individual rich you need only buy what you cannot create and no dealer merchant or speculator can take any advantage ad vantage over you in any way you shall not na be over burdened with stores ruining each other in ungenerous or fatal competition but have your own store and when you need another for convenience simply open it and you have what you want the great crest house bouse to abich you look for your supplies is always on the watchtower watch tower or trade always in the market buying heavily freighting in large lots jots and distributing to your necessities if within their reach at all now suppose ts was all heartily entered into for mutual benefit and monetary salvation and there was an institution created ranking outranking out the hilton durons Hu rons wanamaker makers s or any other would this belittle utah would her reputation suffer woula she be any less leas liberally supplied than now BOW and if perchance a few called this monopoly and for personal ends end depreciated its extension is a this not what Is done clone today in the cases referred to but this jealousy would have a basis very dissimilar to eastern jealousy and if it freed a few from the and worry of buying and selling oel Jing would not their way bo ba open in more creative directions something producing wealth and all aiding in local develop ment and progress according to the genius and spirit of 0 the great work in which sellers and buyers creators and all ai more or lose engaged one tor for which the thousands thou Bands of utah lett left home friends country and institutions that they might found new ones more in harmony with righteous ness truth peace and that zion which once the dream of the prophets and seers is only to lie he made real by the union of all the faithful latter day saints sainte |