Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-08-30 | Page 4 | Even Merchants Should be Consistent.

LIVEN LIEN MERCHANTS rs SHOULD liE HE CONSISTENT CO J A A. tot V r We respectfully submit to the tho butchers aim and d grocers that they the should be consistent at least with their friends Their friends are arc the people of or Salt Sail Lal Luke Lake e. e Those friends have been buying of or the butchers and grocers declining to be seduced from their loyalty loyally to lo the local dealers b by order mail houses In Chicago o and New York And It seems Jn indefensible that the tho butchers and grocers should themselves bo be willing to sell seIl to customers out ot or Salt Lake at prices ices those charged Salt LaJ Lake e people We e believe the tile rea reasonableness of or this position will not be attacked ed The P Republican has strongly ly contended that Utah money noney mon should be spent with Utah Utahn merchants rather than sent gent In mall mail orders to merchants in distant cities The best est friends the butchers and grocers have ha had wad are arc those who ho agree with this contention of The rhe n Republican ItIs It ItIs Its Is s not fair fall for the butchers an and grocers to make prices higher to these their f friends ends than to residents in other parts arts of the state It is 13 not consistent nt for fOl them to lo oppose i order older r business s which appeals to their cU customers lomers and at al the same time engage ago themselves In a order mall business s which t takes customers away from merchants In r other parts of or the state stale If It they are aio against the order older business for fOl Montgomery Mont Mont- gomery Ward ar they should be against it it for themselves THEY S1 SHOULD NOT OT PUT A PENALTY ON MEN IEN FOR FOn LIVING IN SALT LAKE L. And that is what their higher prices for Salt Lake Lali people mean Merchants with public spirit will do what tIle they can to lo make Salt LaJ Lake c u u. desirable place of residence resi resl- dence They rhe can not do that when thc they make prices here unnecessarily high An And prices are unnecessarily high when the they are higher highel to a a. Salt Lake man maim than to toa toa toa a Richfield man for forr example The rime Republican n has haH no fight with the tho butchers and grocers But they are arc wrong wrong- Thc They are aie mal making living Jiving more difficult than is The necessary They are charging more than the they need to char charge c. c lend And nd they must had find sonic some fairer fairer fair fair- er course some omo store more consistent cours course The public I does by no means e approve what tile they are ale doing