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Show EDITORIAL JOTS KEEP IT AT ROME. A great many people think that they can do much better, trading i:i Salt. Lake City, then tliay can al home, and just before conference they begin saving up tiieir dollars to get a good trade. Tney never made a greater mistake in their life. Salt Lake merchants are not in the business for their health, like other business men iLpy are there for the money there is in it. Our home merchants can snd do sell things cheaper than they can be bought in large cilic, and there are many reasons for it. In Manti, and tho same reason hold good in all our country pbices, taxes are much lower, rents are away down, iid wajes are no higher. The wholesale deel.'r dues not ask the merchant v.heie he proposes to fell 1,h goods, that is some thing that dos not concern him. One man buys as cheapas another. There is n item of expense ex-pense to add, that ip the freight, ana it is not so very high, certainly not high enough to make the diff erenee in taxes and rent. Competition will not make a man sell goods at a loss, hence if you wint cheep goods, uy them at home. There is but one advantage that we can see in pure-hating in large cities, there is a grater variety, but -most of us can get all we can pay for any way. And now the Mormon Church has taken a new departure, our informant is the Tribune of course They are now faking a hand in the Tintic iabor troubles And if the Trib, comes out some inornicg with the assertion that the mormons are calling missionaries to work in the Bullion-Beck, dent be suprised. he mormons are a wonderful people, jij.ige.l from Tiioime rei.orts They bribe the judges, have strings ou gorverauent. and now they are fighting ihe labor unions. If we keep on, the Trinune will charge U3 with the weather, eclipses of the moon, and other kindred troubles, Onj thing the Tribune never charges us with, is being human beings. The inaugural ball cost the cou li try -f 64, 000. bui then Uncle Barn's purse ia a big one. While Harrison lived in the White House Cleveland went duck hunting, and now their positions are reversed. Every ctog has his day, and Harri?nn's dog is enjoying enjoy-ing the fun just now. The Tribune says the Heroid is floundering, and the He'-ahi savs the Tribune is still drooling and mumslin.'. Tweedledum and tweed-ledee tweed-ledee is nothing to it. Eafterri papers aie talking seriously of annexing Utah to Nevarlt while California wants tlie United States anwxed to Hawaii, and the puny in power is expected ' to do loin . Utah effiee Ftekers find cold comfoit in the statement that Cleveland is too busy to consider Utah appointments for a while. In another part ot our paper will lefon';da letter ironi Judge Jolron, which should be read by every one. There is evidently something some-thing vwong, and ail shou'd do their utiijnsi to find out who is to blame do that the innocent may not Buffer. A i-eru.in charge is made seaiuit two of our leading citizens, aud it is only fair to give them a chance to right themselves in the fyes of their associates. |