| Show WHAT WHAT SALT LAKE MEN SHOULD HAVE These men who have hae established business in Salt Lake have havo done wonders The Thor They have c a city of importance here in the mOl mountains J an and on the edge of or a desert desert- Thee natural 1 difficulties would have H C appalled men less Jess heroic f. f And nd tho miracle of or It Jt Is that the they hey have haye done clone so much h tn the handicap of r unjust unjust freight rates rales If lh they y received concessions which would put themon them themon on Something of or nu an equality with their competE competE- competitors tors In distant cities e i tho they won Uncertainly have grown more inor and J d the time effect of or their growth have ll be been on an added population In Salt Lake S It certainly seems scorns Salt Lake business men Ji havo o n a right to railroad rates which would enable them to comp compote i with Eastern dealers In Huntington Hunting Hunting- ton and antI Dillon on the lines ines of the Oregon Short Line to Rock Springs on ou the Union Pacific to Winnemucca on the Southern Pacific to Grand Junction on the time Rio Hlo Grande and to Las Vegas on the time Salt Lake route The rule rule pile of charging Salt Lake me men the rate late from Chicago or other continent central points to San Francisco an and then the local rate from San Francisco back to Salt Lake though the haul is only to this city makes their task a a. frightfully hard hartI one And AntI the they seem to have hao a right to ask for correction in ill the name of or justice There was a time not so 50 man many years years ears ag ago when rebates were possible We Ve name no names but it is possible ble that man many shippers here here received i I the benefit of that sort ot of or concessions An And when they e re rebelled 7 against gt what hat the they considered unjust j st grates t they I L- L by 1 the representatives representatives' s of or railroad comp companies Hint l' l It tt it tile they could pet get et down to a permanent basis they could give lower and less burdensome freight rates Now the time has got down to an all established and dependable basis The law makes rebates rebates rebates re re- re- re bates impossible Yet the rates are generally the same as 1 before In tome sonic instances they ther are arc even en higher The rhe discrimination against Salt Lake should be corrected S An And Amid the rates within the tho state should houll be altered These are ure unnecessary unnecessarily burdensome tomine to mine operators Tb They y make mako the tho handling bantIling of coal conI a a. hardship to to the time p people anLy an l by Ly their needless burden buren they maJ make e the t r anti and extension exten exten- sion of or industries here more difficult than they should ho he f i fIt It Is not nol to tIle the interest of oC if any anyone anyone- one oner to lo havo the the I railroads regarded with hostile e eye e e L by the people or by hy their representatives in the legislature Reprisals Re He- taken by angry men cau can not but be he disastrous disastrous trous i l The interests of Utah are the tho interests of tho the railroad companies There Thero are men in in hi position to grant fair fall and Jogl t rates t to the b men of this city The rhe business men of or the tho t ty ask no more And if u they get gel that the tho people of or Utah will domain demand nothing |
