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Show RIGHT TO THE STREET. Ono of tho solid men of Salt Lake asks tho Wookly where tho city gets its right to charge a farmor money for use of Firs,t West street as a public market. And tho Weekly doesn't know. Does anybody? Tho farmor daro not sell his produce at the homo of a citizen. Ho would bo arrested and flnod. Ho drivos past a thousand houses in every ono of which ho could got more for his produce than ho will when ho arrivos at First Wost and South Temple. And tho man of tho houso wou' J even then bo buying 'it loss than ho prosontly will pay at tho storo. But the farmer would bo an offender against the law, and I suppose the man of tho houso would bo equally guilty. Tho city requires tho farmor to haul his load unbroken to that ono block of public street, H and there sell his produce if any one comes to JM buy. The city doesn't provide a market houe for him, with conveniences of commerce and shelter against inclement weather. The oity H doesn't provide him a place of display. Thero M is the open publio street, owned by the publio, fl paved by the public, maintained by the publio. m And yot the public is deprived of tho use of it, m and tho seller has to pay rental for inadequate accommodation on premises that ho already & owns. And tho buyer has to pay money to jH maintain a system which makes more costly M overy purchase ho secures. t. M |