The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-12-10
HOME MERCHANTS

HUME MEftOIIhNloe 1ej55g. 9
In our daily promenades up and
down Merchants Lane, we are pleased
to see ) spirit Of enterprise manifested
by our friends Of home memories. The
day seems to be fast driving towards
Its twilight, when every dime, YEARLY
earned BY an honest citizen Of Utah, IS
to be compelled away from rs to en-
rich other places. Nixon led the way,
and proved that Utah could furnish
men Of mercantile abilities with whom.
the shrewdest eastern traders could
scarce compete. And his business has
been conducted uprightly and honor
ably Stnines, Needham, .and Whit
more have established q business that
bids fairto swamp eheayiest foreign
houses. Cronyn IS on the same track.
Kimball and young Lawrence are IN the
train. Clements, Browne, Thompson,
Goddard and NesIen have adopted the
advancement system. Daft, Hague,
| Piper, and numerous others, are with
them Godbe has established . drug
store that would do credit to London Or
New York.
Yet the majority Of the names We
have mentioned may come under the
complimentary title.of New SroREs.''
BE il 50: they are new and most well
come subjects in our mercantile history.
AT the same time some, nay tho ma
Ijority Of them, can claim the oldest
Estandings IN the financial history Of
Utah. What is our duty, what the
duty Of all the demonstrating citizens
8of Utah towards them? Is it TO try
and crush them By ridicule and satire,
or to pass Them BY with contempt? Let
US pause and inquire.
The twelve years past history Of
! Utah, We think, ought t. have taught
US all d lesson, One merchant after
] another has come among us, marked
his goods according to his own exorbi-
ltant Imagination, and dragged away
the honest earnings Of our citizens to
make himself q palaeious home else
where. What return Was made for.the
wealth thus acquired Insult and
abuse! When calumny has been heaped
upon US, their language and their let
tiers gave il . full and most bitter en-
3dorsement. But yet they are OLD
lsToREs, and should be patronized,
The spncnlator who may come and
yend his spurious Installations can re-
ceige puffs and compliments; but the
honest young adyent,lrer must take the
s.cat d nine tails!'' Pshaw! it is II
diculous! We ike . joke; but such
Jokes may become serious.
Our home merchants! They may
have small capital to commence upon
but they have honesty and integrity Of
purpose. THEY are not striving ia
wheedle the people out Of their money
to spend ii abroad. In patronizinq
4 them we but enrich ourselves.
Who among our foreign merchants
J has spent dime towards the adorn.
Ement Of eur city? They have en-
deayored to make our city a camp,
gronnd, and our territory bloody
battle-feId. They are doing so still
But these, o,lr boys at home; when they
i earn few dollars, we see them. dis
Etributed in home Improvements. A
pheasant garden-walk, a fruitful or
chard, a neat cottage, q well-til.ed
farm, or public-serying grist-miIl,
are the results of THEIR speculations. i
Then why attempt to crush them2
Is satire purchased, and ridicule put to
market? =z$. 2.
Talk of mathematics! We have,
ourselves, mingled among the best and
most successful merchants in the world;