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Show V 0 Published Every Saturday GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. FRANK E. 8CHEF8KI, Editor and Managor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In the United State Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, Ineluding postage flJO for eix months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Onion, $450 per year. BY Payments should be mads by Cheek Money Order er Registered Letter, payable to The Cltlsen. Addreso all eommun leat Ions to The CKIaen. Entered as aeoond-elaa- o matter, Juno 21, 1919, at the postoffloe at Salt Lake Aet of March S 1179. City, Utah, under the Phone Waaatoh 9409 111-12.- 19 Nesa Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah DOMINEERING MILK TRUST Does the city commission protect the milk trust! Does our present law make it possible for the milk trust to throttle the small independent dispenser of milk and aid to put him out of business! Who owns the milk bottles! And a score of other questions are being asked by the consumers. Regarding milk bottles it is a well known fact that a deposit must be left at the stores when purchasing milk, unless the purchaser brings with him an empty bottle. The deposit represents the cost of the bottle and if the bottle is not returned the deposit is subsequently forfeited. The bottle may be kept by the purchaser, it may be thrown away in the garbage, or it may be given away. Naturally it becomes a product of trade with the average junk dealer. Does the law say that a purchased bottle in this way still remains the property of the milk trust! If it does then that law is unjust! If the trust did not exact deposits for their bottles, then it would be an entirely different matter, and no one could find fault with our present milk octopus to lay legal claim to property with their name on it. We suppose that if any one borrowed money on their real estate and did not pay back the money, the loaner would have no claim on the property and the borrower could still claim it his property andJ the law would sustain him. To sell labelled bottles to milk consumers, take the money for the bottles and then still claim the bottles is a course beyond our comprehension. "Why do not the courts say to the milk trust: If you people collect the price of the bottles when you sell your milk, what claim have you in the bottles! Shall our courts be made common collection agencies for a 0 trust and shall our courts help put out of business the struggling independent dealer! Does not the Constitution of the United States protect every citizen in his liberty and business pursuits! Shall our laws be interpreted as class legislation in which only the preferred few shall be able to start a business of their own! Is it not a fact that every dairy has in its possession every kind of milk bottle that has been imported here! Or does the trust destroy all bottles it secures not stamped 4 with their labels! Is not the trust satisfied with the present outrageous price Qit charges for the milk, but now also wishes to wipe out all competition! The trust gives you nine quarts of milk for one dollar. It will not give you a discount if you should purchase $100 worth of tickets and pay for those in advance. The independent dealer gives ten quarts of milk for $1, and if the purchaser takes $5 worth of tickets, gives a further dis count of 25 cents on that amount. That is the reason why the trust is fighting the independent dealer. The trust is trying to have the city commission pass an ordinance to prohibit all unpasteurized milk from the market, another move to eliminate the small dealer. Is our city commission going to stand for such high handed methods! The Citizen wishes to go on record that the pure milk from a cow is more healthful than the pasteurized product! Why is milk pasteurized! Milk that comes from all parts of the state; milk that has stood in the hot sun by the roadside for hours before it gets to the dairies, when it reaches our city is so full of bacteria and disease that it must be pasteurized to be fit for consumption, and as a result the product is an inferior product. But if milk can be sent direct to the consumer from the cow over a short distance, such milk is not only safe, but it is also of the most nourishing kind, and such milk is the kind the consumer should get if he possibly can. We stand for strict supervision of all cow barns and yards, milking and keeping the product clean and fit for consumption. We have a board of health to see to such matters. But we are bitterly opposed to any system that will put a man out of business. The milk trust has been running things with a high hand. It has dictated the price of milk here and the price has been raised upon the plea that the product is scarce, etc. There never was so much hay in the country as at the present time. Farmers can not give away their hay and during the past two years it has been less expensive to feed cows than for many years past, yet here we have the high cost of milk. Poor children go hungry for milk. They should have it, but who can pay for it! citizens liberally donate to a milk fund, but d the more they donate the higher the price goes. Charity, what a precious jewel, and yet the milk trust dumps thousands of gallons of milk into the sewer, which it well could afford to donate to the poor, but no, the price must be kept up. The daily press dares not take an issue with the trust. Live and let live. The Citizen is for all the people all the time. Good-hearte- IN MEMORIUM. State Senator Herbert S. Auerbach of this city was deeply grieved when he received the news last Sunday that his brother, George S., had unexpectedly departed this life. The Auerbachs are pioneer merchants of this city and have established an enviable record as merchants of this city, and their fair dealing with the public. |