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Show SOME GROCERY MEN AS LIARS. Since this paper has been showing up the grocery combine, some of the grocery proprietors have been going around town telling most outrageous lies about this paper and its publisher. Then, after telling their lies they say: "Oh, if we only had a paper to roast the blankety-blank x x x-x x-x x x, we'd fix him." Now, this paper will permit tho grocery men to air their grievances griev-ances in this paper and especially their grievance against the publisher pub-lisher of this paper. In order to show what poor argument the grocers make, in their own defense, we will repeat a few of their stories, which are intended to lead the people away from all thought of the grocers combine. One well-to-do grocer is making it his duty to call at various business houses and say: "The Standard and Examiner people are just simply trying to force tho grocers to advertise in the papers." Every person per-son who has ordinary sense knows that the said grocer is lying because it is a crime under the laws of Utah to try to force any man to advertise in a paper, and if the said grocer believed what he said ho would have sworn out a warrant for tho'arrest of anybody on this paper who had attempted to force him to advertise. This lie will have to be shelved. Bah! Force grocers to advertise? This paper vants people to advertise who have bargains and the Ogden grocers have no bargains. Another grocer is around town telling people that this paper donounced the Light company and that the Light company immediately immedi-ately put an advertisement in the paper and then the paper was silent on the light business. This, too, is a deliberate falsehood. For 15 years the Light company has paid this paper every month for advertising, adver-tising, and during that time, each year, this paper has demanded cheaper light. The Light company officials are not bribers, even if the grocery man who tells these stories is. Tho present light company, during its existence, has never asked a favor of this paper. As late as yesterday this paper condemned the Light company com-pany for charging $10 for meter deposits. So this explodes Grocery Lie No. 2. Then the grocery tricksters are telling that the mayor refused to attend a committee meeting at the city hall to make a new contract, for tho lighting of the city, with the old company, and that such action was proof that he had sold out to the Light company. This shows to what extremes the grocers will go ratherthan stand up like Tmen and dofend themselves. Of course, the mayor wants a better contract for light than tho present company is willing to give, and the law says the mayor shall pass on all matters after the council has acted not before and for that reason he had a right to refuse to bind himself at any committee meeting. Now, what do the people think of mon in business in Ogden who go around abusing the publisher of this newspaper because they can not defend themselves. These sneaks who go from person to person and breathe their foul whispers into ear after ear, feel so fuilty of wrong-doing that they arc satisfied if they can only besmirch be-smirch others. Why does not one of these scandal-mongers who runs a grocery store defend himself by publishing the wholesale and retail prices of groceries in Ogden It is done in other cities why not in Ogden? |