Show PEDDLERS AND MERCHANTS there is in before the city council a petition from some of the city merchants making that peddlers be charged a license of a year the claw class of people against whom this re quest to li directed primal pally are those V who ho serve vegetables vegetable fruits and dairy products to people at as their homes from she be bucke hucksters sers kagous to be aeo seen dally daily on the ot A large amount of business Is IB dooe does this ways way especially by bountiful davis county and mill crook creek fact fast at mill creek salt lake bounty farmers and gardened gar denen who thus find a market for the product of their gardens gardena orchards and dairies dalr iee the green gisen grocer merchants complain that these people are reaping a rich through the system in vogue while the abe merchants mer chanta are being practically driven out of business by being Unde riold tula this argument on the part of the merchants merchant la in not quite so ao fortunate fortunat as ae acme that might be made on en the BUD loot beet the customers and there are very ery many of them of the be hucksters tend nd peddlers can CAD by aay at onoe once that if be objection of the mero bante ants la is that they are re undersold under sold then the customer gets the advantage of the cheaper price hence the huckster system le is a public benefit again these merchants ask a license for peddler more re vies lIngan an unfortunate inconsistency alcoe a merchants license Is from 26 25 up and to pay the same licousi an a a merchant with the same valuation of capital stock would woula require only one fourth of what the petition asks should be required the bold injustice of the terms of the request must militate strongly against it as at present made yet the merchants have a grievance evance which should be removed they are required to contribute to the city revenue by license on their buei neef and it to la a very easy thing to see eee that they are unjustly dealt with in belofi being required to meet that obligation while another merchant who chooses to oo ao bli siness in ID a wagon moving from aromi house bouee to house escapes it altogether as do hucksters huckster or pays a very small licenses licence as Is the be case came with peddlers it a mero merchant doing business at a fixed place has baa to take out a license then than the peripatetic vender who does an equal amount of business on the streets should bould be treated like wine and the latter class certainly give as an much coach occasion for expense in ID municipal regulation KB an do the licensed merob an IP jf it one relieved from paying into the city coffers for the privilege of doing business the other should be also another good cause of complaint for the retail fruit merchants who do business in stores is we the corner fruit vendor we mean particularly the man who hawks bawks life wares from the tall nd of a wagon to be plains plain this business bu elness is nothing less lees than an outrage on the regular merchant the corner dealer takes out a peddlers license at one third or less that which the merchant has to pay and gets a stand on the be street at very little costs cost where he does a merchants merchant s business just why the city should give this class or dealers rent room free is not quite clear certainly the noise and clamor of their importunities for trade are vastly more in need of police regulation than the way the regular merchant dues does business except in ID special cases where physical disability or other misfortune makes the exercise eze rolce of charitable power necessary every corner fruit vendor ought to be retired from the street sor eor pay rent as does the merchant for the ground he occupies notwithstanding objections which may be urged to te the particular request of the petition referred to the subject is if one that needs action by the city council there should be such a revision of the ordinance or of its enforcement as an will place all merchants on the same basis proportionate to their trade the rel regular tular dealer should be protected in his rights right and the others should not be oppressed out of business bu but none should escape a requirement made of the others with this matter regulated the consumer would not complain since there would be no monopoly created to raise prices on him and the city would be better off at present the regular merchant is getting decidedly the worst of it and the evil should bd b remedied to give him a fair show |