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Show H A WAIL IN THE NIGHT H Last Sunday's local papers contained a full H page advertisement from the Ogden Packing & H Provision company headed "A Plea for Fair Play," H which was nothing more nor less than a squawk H started hy the prospect of coming competition, H and so apparent was this and the argument was H so lacking in courage that few who took the time H to read it gave it serious consideration and won- Hj dercd what kind of judgment prompted such an Hj exhibition. It was a whine from beginning to end H and the tirade included bitter denunciation of the H ' Salt Lake Commercial club and a large number H of the leading business men of this city for invit- H ing a great enterprise to come here, charging H that these men and that club had tied up every H paper in the city against its own desires so that H none was at liberty to publish articles on the H packing situation in the state. H It is quite remarkable, in view of the wild, H paid plea of the Ogden company and in view of H the statements made in its battle cry for free- H dom, that a local concern, the Utah Packing & H Provision Company, is working to capacity and H has right along with a profitable market for H more than it can turn out. And while going H along industriously putting up products that have H no superior anywhere in the country, it is rather H welcoming competition than discouraging the en- H trance into this field of new capital meaning em- H ployment to more people and bigger payrolls for H the state. In citing this one instance of prosper- H ity by an independent concern operating here we H think it is enough in itself to offset the remarks H made by the previous speaker, or in other words, H the Ogden Packing & Provision company. H From a selfish standpoint there isn't any con- H cern in the state that wouldn't like to have a H monopoly of the particular line of business it is H engaged in, and it would be perfectly natural, if H the same motives were carried out, to protest H against the coming of similar concerns to operate H in the same field, but the progressive view to take H is to urge the investment of all possible outside H capital in every legitimate enterprise that pre- H sents itself and not to turn the tears on be- Hj cause one can't have it all. Proportionately, it H means no more, in fact, not so much for a big H concern to be met with competition than for a little one struggling along and eking out anv existence in the hope that there will be enough for all to prosper; so the 'wail of the- Ogden conr cern is more indicative of jealousy than anything else, particularly in view of the fact that a similar sim-ilar organization has made good here from the start, and we are willing to wager that if its directors were interviewed they would welcome the outside concern rather than protest against its coming. |