Show PLAIN TALK through the encouragement of our citizens not long ago the ogden cracker factory was established here so far as we can learn the men who took bold hold of the project did eo so with an honest purpose to buildup build up a corn com patent potent and end growing enterprise and have thus far fulfilled their obligations to the public squarely their plant ie Is sufficient and the goods ara are first class according to the testimony tea of merchants mercha ata who are handling them we learn further that when the enterprise ter prise first began the balk bulk of ogdena cracker supply came from omaha through a local house which it appears courteously gave up the agency and transferred its patronage to the home enterprise the statement is now mils male that the omaha concern hag has announced its purpose of 0 running the factory out of the business and that an ogden firm has hag accepted the agency for the foreign goods private has business of this sort is not regal regularly arly within the provi pro vinca of a newspaper bat in this case it seems to us the town and its people collectively and indi rid vidu aly are to some extent concerned for years we have been inciting men of capital by every possible means to establish permanent enterprises here liberal bonuses have been paid by citizens and no end of promises maja made in the way of patronage all of which was an evidence that at least some of our community were broad enough to underhand understand tha at this critical time every dollar which was properly spent for the town was dollars in the pockets of every man doing briness bu iness here the question now in order is dawe da wa mean to carry out our promises la in 0 other ther words do we want business enterprises started in ogden and if BO so are we willing to pay tha the price which in the case in question quast ioa to be one of pt roae simply TUB tits STANDARD ia Is not going on record as an advocate of but when it comes to an eastern firm pouncing upon an infant enterprise which this town has morally obligated itself to st tain for its own good as well as for the glod of those who have invested their means in it we are most emphatically with the homo home concern as every loyal asdon mia should be we can cau not affard to buy bay foreign gooda goods when products of our own which are just as good and chea are in the market we caa can only win in this fight by absolute and r ing log loyalty to caleb other and to the town when ws we permit eastern houses to come in and anti strangle our enterprises at their birth through our individual the tile time has come cattle to cease spending money to ad vertlee olden II I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 11 1 |