Show A protective association last S saturday arturd the HERALD BALD in accordance c fl cor dance lance with a request ortho parties who passed them published a preamble and resolutions showing the formation ofa of a farmers protective union in the tile west weber and wilson precincts of weber coun county ty the intent of this movement ia is for those who compose the organization to do their own business through an agent of their own owa selection whose e duty it shall hall be to find the best markets for products which he be will sell on whatever amount of margin or commission may be agreed upon this action on the part of our gr angers is decidedly and eminently P proper and cannot bo be reasonably condemned it brings the profits on oil the sale of products more largely ar gely into the hands of those whose labor and industry under the bl blessing eising of providence bring them into existence to dispense dis with the seivi sei vices so far as practicable of middle men who conduct private business in the fruits of the soil is considered everywhere legitimate besides the policy of consolidation for the transaction of any species of business in in a operative cooperative co capacity is is strictly in accord with the genius orthis of this community there is a point however immediately i L connected with the matter in hand band to which wo we wish to specially direct the attention of our friends of west weber and wilson for as such euch vic ive iteck c them while the spirit and direction of the tile community leada leads toa toa welding of business ne is interests it is no less proper that teat every move that 13 is made of that or any other nature should bo be undertaken with a proper disposition toward all men while we endorse a movement that has in view the benefit of the bulk of the people we can scarcely omit to ex prem a regret that a laudable intending organization should manifest even a tinge of such censorious feelings as we imagine aro are exhibited habited in the document which appeared in our saturdays issue tho the gentlemen who are engaged in tb the produce dealing business in this section of country arc are worthy and respectable and so is their trade as things go inthey if they have been seeking ill Z to get as large a margin as practicable according to the condition odthe of the market they are only acting in unison with the general existing rules of business and aro are no more open to invidious disapproval than those engaged in any other line if business reforms are needed such as will turn the profits of products into channels to which they more closely belong the matter should be dealt with without the introduction tro of other than the most amiable feelings it is not emotion that produces beneficial reformatory for matory results but deliberate and intelligent measures As to the movement pure and simple of the west weber and wilson gran gers it is decidedly goodas a means of protection and as a vehicle to convey to them thera a more liberal result of their own industry yet while farmers are willing to trado trade with non producing middlemen the latter will exist and in order to maintain a business perpetuity they V will watch and so far as they have the power more or less manipulate the market it is however in the hands bands of the gr angers to say how long this class of business shall flouri flourish sli if they are determined to a doom it the abolition thorild be accomplished complis hed bed by measures into which no particle of bitterness should be injected IK IN PINAL county arizona a large waterfall has been discovered compared with it a local paper says sa Ts the little water drop at niagara sinks int into insignificance by a two thirds majority |