| Show JUDGE GOODWIN ON HIGH PRICES If the good people of Ogden have received the impression that the high prices for the necessaries lies of life are arc an exclusive per perI perquisite I of the Ogden dealers they are mistaken For some time we have noticed that the editor of the Salt Lake Telegram has been uneasy when touching upon the existing conditions as occasionally he has hus given expression to a perplexity as to how the people are aro living In last Saturday evenings Telegram the venerable editor Judge O 0 C Goodwin said II And by the way anyone any one that lives in this town Salt Lake City and p pays ys his grocery bills and his butcher bills and the other bills will be a poor man if he sticks to it ib long enough and it wont take so very long either JI It will be seen from the way the Judge s sires things up in Salt Lake City he is thinking that even the man who thinks s rich will be poor if he is compelled to buy at present prices ver verlong verb verbS S long and as the Judge says not very long either JI i Think of it Salt Lake City has been growing so fast it has been so prosperous that the people in that city have not been noticing ing in b t the he increased prices of groceries and provisions but at last the they y have discovered that the people who work for a 0 living cannot live on the word prosperity that notwithstanding the great pros prosperity prosperity Salt Lake City has had the last few years and is having to today today day a great groat majority of the tho people of that city who work for a 31 living find it impossible to make both ends meet r We feel sorry for poor old Salt Lake We Ve were in hopes that than ti the tho great prosperity that city is enjoying was so real that it WaE wa wai i r being participated in by even the humblest citizen of t the Capital e From the tone of the Salt Lake Evening Telegram we are con convinced convinced vinced that Salt Lake City and Ogden both are aro blessed or cursed x take your choice with the combination that has boosted prices out of sight The Tho only thing for the Salt Lake papers to do is to get after the combination The state laws are arc sufficiently strong to protect the consumers in Utah if the combination persists in its unlawful methods ti I We Va doubt if the ring leaders of the combination in Salt Sal Lake Lak Lakee I e j 4 and Ogden have even read the laws of the State of Utah in refer L j once ence to restraint of trade If they have they will see they are en enI R I their own freedom I |
