Show A CRYING BUSINESS NEED for over twenty years be merchants of this city have been strut etrue gling in ID an uneven content for the trade of the intermountain country which geographically belongs to them at times there have been slight alight evl evi doloes that relief would come from the railroads which would bring about the object so BO much de desired alred hopes hoped have been engendered lost loaf and again a revived only again and again lobe to be lashed flashed to pieces until many of our old time merchants have allowed a 1 eeling of despair to seize theland the mand it i to awaken in them say any confidence that this eity city will wih ever be b treated it in railroad ta tariffs as she deserves many plans plane have been advanced for the amelioration at 01 this feasible others othero wild and able ble but bat the results have all been about the same in the end we cannot lose sight eight of the he fact however that we did at one time J in our history bave within our grasp the means ot of signal victory which it allowed to progress program to a finality must musi have proved a permanent bou benefit lafit to the ax a interests of this corn com but also alas it struck a snag stud and we ret lost not alone in a pecuniary way but the prestige which could have been burp we reffa to be great struggle of at 1892 when the chamber of commerce took hold bold ot of these matters with a vigor and enthusiasm never shown before or since in ii the adjustment of this ibis freight problem at first only a few t f the merchant nto could be interested in the plans of colonel Doo Bellan and 8 W bears president and secretary respectively 01 01 the chamber of commerce but as developments went on OB many rallied around these tw tv giving them moral and fi 11 ancial support and matters so tar far progressed that even the be most distio admitted that much was to be expected from the work which the chamber was so vigorously pushing against certain railroads Bud suddenly denly just J before victory seemed assured there was wait a great change fur for some reason mason the he merah merchants changed from and joined the forces to which they bad been opposed it was not many days before the two wo gentlemen mentioned stood almost alone and they never wavered they were defeated in their plans by almost almo tb entire commercial interests interest of this thin city the are too well known for us to imagine that we anted to elaborate upon them the NEWS was will ng na nay may glad to hope that all the merchants expected to gain by this sudden change of root front would be realized a a while never uttering a word wora to dir dip courrege cour couri tege age them in their efforts under the new plan dlan then evolved we did bouno the necessary note of warning aud aid showed the be danger which might come we are not of the kind who ore are agwayo saying 1 I told you so but in ithie thin case we feel fee that we did our uty a we saw it ft and now call attention ti t the fact that we toad had not been misled in our judgment though it would have been much more pleasant to have been compelled to admit that the fears ex reshea in october 1892 were groundless I 1 ibe be trouble all the way through this thie business has been that our merchants have allowed tbell own seeming personal advantage to outweigh their patri ottEm and the general good has baa been acri flood for some insignificant and at beat only temporary gain a tendency truly find ano forcibly expressed by a merchant yet yesterday wb re as reported in ia a 4 arning m aning paper says in reference tv to recent developments in batee it simply means meana a deathblow death blow to jobbing in salt lake and ogden and unless the merchants get together ip in united re Hi mi stance a year of it means a loss of 1 to 10 us the trouble is that too many of us are righting fighting for the protection of some pero personal onal rather than the general interest that has been the main weakness in our organization and so long as it exists we may look tor for the worst of it we have no fight with the railroads railroaded rail roade we kautto want to wee bee weir by the gentral general rity or of the country mind and the traffic which would result we W believe tami their alist r present policy Is not even for their own permanent good and hat a 8 more liberal policy loulu more than double their busi during the next decade the representatives of the railroads are shrewd business meo men whose whole time and attention to is given to making money lor their respective roads road they ire are well organized they have their associations for the be maintaining of rate and getting all the traffic will ovar oear our merchants lack orga diss bloo at any rate the W thorough rough tion of the other side bad and much att ac we may dislike to co admit tue fact they are overmatched over matched we need in this city a tb thorough orough organization with a competent executive who would do for the merchants anat they have al t time to do for themselves and it would be money well invested to have just suon a freight bureau as we hou had in 1892 with a good and aggressive corn com oner at its beads head that thai the Int interests eresto in this territory upon freight matters might be continuously watched and the railroads be made to see that any discrimination against us would not mot be tolerated at least not without a vigor one protest |