Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-02-02 | Page 4 | Are All Men Liars?

ARE ALL MEN LIARS? The Salt Lake Telegram wants a grand jury in Salt Lake City to investigate prices of eggs and meat. Judge Goodwin thinks it's rather rough on an editor to read in the papers that nice, fat steers sell at 7 cents a pound and then have to pay 20 to 25 cents for an old cow steak. Come up to Ogdcn, Judge, and sec how a real live com-bine com-bine fixes prices. This is what the Telegram says: WE NEED THAT .TTTT?.V Considering what that grand jury in Provo accomplished, in these days of brotherly love in Utah, could not the mayor and council of this city induce the members of that grand jury to come hore and turn on their Provo searchlight? There has been much agitation in this city during the past throe months over the question of eggs. The prices have been double what they were a few years ago, though we have had regular chicken shows two or threetimes every year, and have been led to believe that not only the quality but the quantity of oggs was steadily increasing. But up to a few days ago, if anyone dared to protest against the price, he was told that it would bo higher next week. Well, yesterday, yes-terday, a gentleman who is careful what he says informed us that all this time there have been 40,000 cases of Eastern oggs in cold storage in this city. Does it not look as though we needed that Provo grand jury? When wc read what fat steers are selling for and then at the price charged for a lean old cow steak, then wo think again of that Provo grand jury; and we recall that there is nothing new under the sun, v for did not the wise man of old cry out, "I have said in my wrath that all men are liars"?