Show r F OGDEN REI All TRUST Forces P K Smith to His Knees Until Me He Cries for Proceeds to Put Smith Out of Business With the help Heip of Wholesale Measures free America In Ogden Utah Crushed ill People Stand for It Is this a country countr r P K Smith the tho grocery man on the tho corner of street and Washington avenue thought until a few fow da days s sago ago Ho He now says ns that thui Is not it a afree free freo count country at least Ogden Ogdon Is not lot a I freo city for the tho trust is supreme The Retail neW II Trust has ha forcer forced Ir P PK PK K Smith to get down on his knees and ask a k Corg forgiveness and promise that he will not cut prices In order to save his business For several months past there has lIs been trouble between Mr Ill Smith and tho ho Retail Threats have been heen made mallo that Smith would be bm up In business un en unless enless less lie ho stuck to time the prices fixed b by bythe the Every Ever no anti and then thon Mr Ir Smith would break the trust prices The trouble began belan last summer when Smith a dozen lozen quart heart jars for cents while the trust price was 75 cents He sold the large jars for 75 cents when the tho trust price was 10 cents Mr Ir Smith was to go 0 out of business at that time hut ho was lire upon to be n a gooi log dog ancl alIt lie hc swallowed his American once ence and raised the price of oC jars just justas as the jar season was about Retail Trust to dIscipline I tho Geo A Lo Lowe company compan for sellin selling fruit jars to Lo Smith The Gee Geo A Lowe I company however refused to he be a party to the tho punishment or of Smith and promptly Informed the RetaIl Trust of Ogden that If they wan wanted Led to Lo LoI I hu buy jars from the tho Ceo A t Lowe com coin compan patty pan they could buy lium them if they lid dId not noL to bur them somewhere else That the George A Lowe company would sell to ever eol one who had the money mone to bu buy the jars at wholesale prices The price at which the Smith Grocery company compan was selling fruit jars permitted them to a profit I of 50 per cent a and 11 Mr Smith consid considered considered ered the trust price as robber i Later on the Smith corn com pails sold Sanborn coffee at 36 35 cents per pound The Tho wholesale price Is I cents and Smith was sell sellIng selling Ing at 1 cent per pound profit Tills This angered the Ogden Trust and the 0 I den agent refused to sell wll the Smith Grocery company compau coffee corree for less than 31 cents pound while all others i Ji 4 cents Smith not to be out omit I Ilone lone rushed down to Salt Lako City I mill and purchased Chase Sanborn cot coCo fee for Cor a 3 Cents and put It back baek on the market at 35 cents feeling as If IS a American citizen feel hut hul ho 10 find anti when Iw he tried to get h his next order ordel filled at Salt Sait Lake City lie he was notIfied that the Ogden agent of time the Chase e Sanborn coffee lint th exclusive field in Og OgI I den denI d on I Smith not to bo be outdone sought lie tho thoI Pocatello wholesale house hut there I too lie ho was He fIc tried a con COli pIe or of eastern houses honses and was In InI informed formed forme that Chase Sanborn haul an I agent In Ogden who sold the coffee Smith has a good heal of ence emice him and hy by hook ot 01 crook I lie hc has hns been n able to Lo get geL his coffee correo and has sold old It on tIme the market His opponents however In the co c f fee and amid fruit Jar business caused him to cut tho ho prIce rico or of flour 25 cents per sack This was considerable and the I Retail Merchants Trust of Ogden got buss bus and decided to put p K IC Smith i out of business He Fre was asked to raise Uw Ume price and the more the ml him luini to raise ralso the the themore themore more determined lie ho became sa saying inS that was vas enough for a sack or of flour and that time tho Trust price was a Smith warn warnIngs arn Ings from the wholesale house to be good and then lien things drifted along until at a recent meeting of the Mor chants Retail Trust of Ogden It wn was I unanimously decided to put pilL Smith out or of unless lie ho bowed down The wholesale holesa houses house of Ogden were informed that they could take their choIce of selling to P K Smith and lose all time the other trade In Ogden OgIl or lose Smiths trade and gain all time the others Tills This was rather rathel a seere way of doing things and time the Ogden sale houses fell in III line promptly Fred j J KIesel Co informed Mr Ir Smith that It was a case of accepting his 2000 worth of business against worth of business of other merchants H I and they preferred to take tho 40 The Ogden Wholesale companies drummer who was around to get the business of Mr Ir p K Smith every everyday J day last Friday Informed Mr Ir Smith I that he did not want his business I Mr Smith tried to do business In iii Sat Lake Lako City and In P hut hilt was that There Is nothing do 10 doIng Ing Mr Smith engaged an attorney and was ed to force the Ogden wholesale houses to sell him goods good hut hilt tIme the attorney reported that lie hI did not see how I time he wholesale houses housos could bo be forced to sell goods to Mr Ir Smith Thou Then Is when Smith broke down lie He was seen b by a Standard ye 10 Porter and when how his battle isas progressing with the Retail Iler chants amid aud the whole wholesale wholesale sale houses hue he replied In order to save my I had to Lo sacrifice m Independence You Youcan Youcan can just say that lint I got on my knees and promised to he a good log I 1 had to do 00 It t I promised to stop cutting prices just how Jon long I will be a good I dog I 1 tIn do not know It makes maks my boil but I had to give In That Is all 1111 there Is to It ItIn itIn In response to other questions lie he said saidI l I have hae nothing further to say sar I 1 got on my knees and promised to be bea a good dog This people of Ogden Is In iii the i Twentieth century In Ogden In Inthe Inthe the year ear of our Lord Lorl One Thousand Nine and Nine How do you ou like it This paper hm has watched this trust business fo for some time bul bimi now with the peoples help will to destroy the trust or go broke trying What Whal is the verdict AIr rr SmIth called at the Standard office this afternoon and said he laid had fixed It up ip that he could got N all the goods ho he wanted now flOW If was said In the papers He requested this paper to suppress all mention of the matter He was wa told that this paper was not fighting his that the fact that lie he had received terms from the trust and houses hind had nothing to do with this 1 paper that the question was much I greater Ulan than the thc business of P K Smith It ma may be that the Retail oler Mer Merchants I chants Trust Trust Is not t the e right name tom 01 the hue combine which trIed to 10 put Smith out or of business But Dut I in a name 1 |