Show The Business Situation I Communicated 1 on jnere is no aouot mac naa uio TucKer bill became a law Utah would have had a big boom Moneyed men in the East were only waiting for the death knell of Mormonism to be sounded by that wholesome whole-some measure to come here for perma aant investments Of course many of us are disappointed in consequence of the plumb we did not get But that an era of prosperity is at our door I doubt not While the law we got is a good one in many regards and will do much towards the Americanization of Zion there was passed by the Fortyninth Congress another bill which will go far towards the accomplishment of the great aim in view and perhaps farther than the Edmunds Tucker bill I refer to the InterState Commerce law The big coop in this city has been doing a yearly business of 5000000 j the Ogden Coop 800000 the Logan Coop 500000 and the Provo and other Coops lesser amounts These concerns have in all the past years by virtue of the churchs adulterous relations unto the railroads been enabled to get their freights at about onehalf the rates charged to Gentile concerns and in consequence con-sequence thereof have been able to undersell un-dersell their Gentile competitors pay dividends and stand an enormous leakage The commercial drummer in Zion never did much except with the coops But all this is changed by the i provisions of the InterState Commerce law The coop and the small wholesaler whole-saler are on the same footing as to freights j the drummer with his slick exterior and smutty mind is a thing of the past The great houses of New York Chicago Kansas City and Omaha must give the local point a new deal In order to hold their interior customers they will now be forced to establish at convenient and central points wholesale agencies with stocks large enough to sup nlv the iomnr Io of Yv o nMTio ounli no fni Abu u V u competition and the changed condition rLV1 e warrant JoInov Already I am informed that Ogden is the point l1l for < rp utan CnrlJ1rlpd I u that they are now taking steps to estab lish branch houses in that city Once started the fashion will have to be followed by other wholesale concerns of the East so that the boom will be inaugurated in-augurated and with its tide will come the American voter with his enterprise push and coin INDEX Salt Lake March 22 |