Show IN BUSINESS While conversing with a worthy a k gentile business man of Ogden city the other day the editor of the OGDEN HERALD was shown the pernicious effects of partisanship in business in a somewhat new and striking light the genallo gentleman alluded to has no political aspirations and he doe not by any means make his store a sort of anti mormon missionary chapel but instead of adhering strictly to business topics he has frequently repulsed a largo and dominant domi nent class of our citizens by careless and not intentioned bad remarks which wounded the feelings and drove away from his etore many who would otherwise have been his customers to such an extent had abis reprehensible policy injured his business that he felt certain there was no use in trying to in creace the number of bis customers in tans community and he frankly acknowledged that were it not for wholesale patronage from a distance he might as well shut up arshop he declared that he had lived a very long time in ogden in fact we believe he has hadano considerable business experiences outside of this and therefore he maintained that he knew better than any one of more diversified and cosmopolitan experience could possibly know that it was useless for him to try to in crease y his local trade and make his business locally a greater success because one class of this community doea not patronize him extensively jae complained that they do nofa afe ufe much of bis class and moreover he complained i of a sort of which he alleged segregated a portion of the community from him in business matters we are of the un jwied opinion that he himself is re to a great extent forthe business segregation of which ho complains and as for his that the majority of the community does not use many of bia staple barca why ho certainly under estl mated the facts and forgot that in business as in politics as in every other enterprise in this world the good will of even a dog is better than his ill will true bun nesa in the ability to abolish all party linea in his mercantile transactions and cultivate tho friendly good will ofala borta of political or religions believers especially ia this the case in a community calo rany other animosities are bitter and radical but no business roan can do this successfully if he oca not scrupulously avoid con tro veray and carefully abam fran repelling men who might be in ducca to trade with him were it not for hia own business indiscretion in irritating needlessly and uselessly ute lessly their peculiar religious or political sentiments in business it ia wise commendable and th conly bate policy to do away with even the slightest eem blanco of partisanship all men are human and do not like to have their opinion deprecated or their polibio cal or religious ideas denounced and a master merchant will take ad vantage etli fact to any possible offensive partisanship of Us own from his gales rooms where the dollars of christian pa gau jew or mormon are equally logical and fa no humana being on the face of the earth attracted anu whose patrona ge be well Ss his business if a W ij W k K n ahvero long enough and patiently enough when a business man states that because he has lived long in one community had of any great extent elsewhere no resource of cosmopolitan enterprise and shrewdness can increase his trade among a particular people he convinces us that lie lacks that progressive and adomi table energy which overcomes all difficulties by patient and 5 politic exertion |