| Show A qualification A fuw FEW days ago we published publish Ld an article in relation to the benefits benell ti 3 co io be derived by producers in dispensing with middle men taken apart from the ideas embodied in another article which preceded it it might convey an idea not intended under some conditions intermediary handlers of products are not only exceedingly cee useful but almost indis pen sable they are often the means not only of maintaining good prices in the markets contiguous to utah but of establishing and maintaining the reputation of the products of thi this s territory this Is continually being exemplified by actual experience peri ence aud and results farmers have for abstance ia iB stance placed themselves in ia communication with dealers in ia colorado and elsewhere and ana so underbid the middlemen that prices have soon dropped greatly below wha the latter formerly lor merly paid right here another ce of this desultory manner of loing doing bus business inuss is that some producers have shipped out products that were simply trash hardly tit fit for consumption and thus the name of utah articles has been depreciated to such an extent that the trade in places has almost been sv spoiled oiled on the other hand band it has been to the interest of interrelate intermediate home baad band lers tu to maintain their own reputation D uy oy sound shipments and in that thata ay to preserve the good name of tte territory atje this would also be i so with tie e pro dubers if they were consolidated by compact organization so as to b be in a position to do their own business through agencies of their own appointment or selection as in the case of the wool growers who are by this method ethod ca in direct business contact with eastern purchasers until the farmers are organized on OD a similar basis to the granger associations in some parts of ne east middlemen will oe more or less beneficial to them they should be dispensed with as soon as practicable but this can only be accomplished profitably uy by a consolidation of interests the business benefits of consolidation are boing recognized all over the world and at no period in in modern times has the operative cooperative co idea been put into info such wide application as now it is beginning to enter into every phase and ramify cation of trade and tilis this country especially teems with corporations compacts associations and pools when the theory is applied to tor r the purpose of legitimate protection giop or for profit in pursuit of which nob odys rights are invaded it is a power for good when on the other hand band it is prostituted prostitutes for I 1 aase ase and purely selfish purposes it becomes an engine of 0 oppression |
