Show t V W 1 VOICES THE PEOPLE TheLon epst pole knocks the per EDITOR HEr ALiD it is not often that I 1 take up my pen for communication muni cation to a newspaper neither is it any more frequent than I 1 can possibly help that leakea a glimpse contemporary ry lately late y from elko E ako but as every merchant and business man mail I 1 have spoken to tile last few days is full 0 of f indignation about a thinly dia disguised guised advertisement for we do not think it a free puff puit of the union pacific R R in the pilot I 1 cannot help asking your indulgence for a few lines in which to ventilate the misrepresentations cepres expose the falsehoods and explode the lies in that so called editorial the pilot that means the gentleman tle who furnished that ellit editorial orial advertisement admits that thia this city lias has in fact enjoyed advantages as a distributing point which made her the envy whatever that may mean of less fortunate places but then it or lie flops right over and questions whether her citizens generally have mada made the most of those advantages and of the superior fa cili ties afforded them fur for anakin making this a permanent p C r in a U e U t distributing di 3 tri point t and a it large commercial and manufacturing fac turing center the writer of these lines knows fully well that the advantages of ogden city cit were not created by the railroads U but on the tile contrary were the inducement for the railroads to como come here again what ad advantages vantages have been afforded by the roads to the city have been amply and more repaid by the citrin city in the shape of liberal land grants furthermore if railroad traffic has done this city and comma community any good which we cheerfully nn a adroit admit the good lias has by no means mean proceeded from the rising sun alone good has also come from the setting settin 0 sun moreover Mo railroads rail roa is are not a ot run for glory or for the fun of the thing thin 9 sec see advertisement and whatever merchandise wag was brought to ogden from the other side of the rocky mountains realized very good freight receipts and what went from here was not shipped for nothing ing either the advertisement claims that that great corporation lias has always been run so as to favor t this his c ty tf as much as it could consistently with correct business rules rule s this reminds us of the correct dusinus rules of old isaac nuel who told his beloved son aaron aaron make money I 1 make money honestly nestly lio if you can but make money at any airy rate this may sound like an inference but I 1 have reference with all due deference to the time about two years ago i when w lea freight reig it on grain rain and flour from born ogden golen to green reen river was raised by that great corporation from 48 cents per cwt cat to LU with correct business rules I 1 presume presume 4 true the benefactor of ogden city relented somewhat and reduced the rate to 75 cents after the shipping business from here to that country had bad been entirely and permanently extinguished I 1 do not want to accuse that great corporation of extortion far be such a thought from me but I 1 cannot but remember that other instance of correct business rules about a year ago when sugar before then rated as fourth clma class frught was raised to first class and anfe even ven to double first class simply eim to stop the importation of the sa sandwich island article about the tile same time atme grain coming in from the west bound for the north through the medium shippers was wms raised ibrom 18 cents to 82 25 per hundred in which operation 1 1 presume pre sune that great corporation has has been free from guile how much the U P cared to benefit or assist utah producers was proved by that company in extend ino ing that increased rate on all gram grain home raised as well as imported from the west especially on oata oats and barley barle corn com did not need that krotec protection tion as it came from the east somewhere along the lines and ab u bl kincs es of that great corporation after considerable spar ring writing hither bither and hence the S rate wa was reduced to 75 centa cents a figure which still made it im iiii boble poble for utah seigers shippers to ship north as the great friend oduth of utah gave ave eastern shippers more re favora tie ble rates to idaho and montana markets this spring there began to be a little opening for utah flour our in in he the north when the eagle eye e of that lat areat ea corporation opened itself to tire the 0 opportunity ort unity and saw the freight freig bt raise 25 acts per cwt cat more again closing the avenue boutah producers and jobbery job jo ibbers bere this makes me leagree agree with the pilot puff where it fails to see therein the upsetting of the formerly existing through rates in in a c tuse for fir congratulation after finding the northern ave nue to the intermountain inter mountain center of gravity closed ogden niP Pra attempted to bring grain and flour which had previously been 15 ct a cat cwt from logan when the omaha octopus generously extended ita its feelers and and grabbed 6 eta a bun dr dred more on the products of the north coining coming this way this i call building up the country with a vengeance ven ear but then I 1 may mav not sed tnT correct business rules mr creditor editor I 1 beg your pardon fur for encroaching BO so much on 01 your space pace although I 1 would like to d di late on some more points but knowing you to be the advocate of all legitimate dimate interests of ogden city as well aa as utah m in general I 1 have written this much and before closing I 1 would like limply to ask faff r every candid reader whether a corporation po ration however great encourages business in a town as long a ai it suits iland it and squelches it when something else suits it belter better can be called a iu any an other than a pick dickian wic kian sense na all the puffing publications in in a prostituted prostitutes press cannot take the sting out of the tarantula any more than all th scents of arabia took the blood stains from lady Mac betha beths hand which reminds me that I 1 had bad better put my seal and hand to this MERCHANT 11 1883 |