The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-24
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
A Few Remarks on the Difference
Between tie Two.

Puck. the sprightly New York
paper, scores big point in the iolloE-
ing article. The arguments are GER
tainiy nanswersbIe:
"Why is i. that it is considered a
much mora reputable thing TO sell
things in large quantities than in
small quantities, although there is
really no difference in the transao-
ton?
II you buy glass OF beer from s
aaloonkeeper whose capital in his
business may be fifty dollars. you are
dealing with man upon whom
society looks down, Butt would not
look down on the brewer himself, who
supplies the saloonkesper.
In England brewers are elected to
Parliament or raised to the peerage.
Here they wear the biggest diamond
solitaires in their shirt fronts. and
drive the sleekest. best.bred and some
tlmeSLle laSt6Sb horses.
The proprietor OF dry goods store
is not as big man as cotton maui
tacturer. Bot the cotton manulac-
tu.er could not pay his rent and
wages unless the dry-goods store ex-
listed. One ia shop-keeper, and the
other is tremendous swell. so long
as he is known to be solvent, before
whom the whole population will take
of its hat.
Take, then, the owner OF mighty
OCEAN steamer. He ia nothing more
than the proprietor OF floating hotel,
and in some sense an expressm an.
Yet hotelrkeeper is not considered
heightened" by q large majority OF
people. They will not have him in
the fashionable clubs. They won't
allow him to play polo-at least in
company with members of the Knick-
erbocker Club or English noblemen
and his social position is always
shaky.
The status OF tramp or ten-dol-
isr-a-week ..shiI pipg-clerk in a
merchants office is. in many social
aspects, better than that OF the hotel.
keeper. Itisvery hard to understand
why this should be so. Ali trades.
occupations and professions are
dependent on one another.
The street-sweeper or bootblack is
not, as a rule, as we'll educated or
refined as the large contr cior, or the
leather merchant iu the Swamp; but.
alter all. these men are enly boot
blacks and street-sweepers on lager
scale. But the rule does not always
hold good.
The large wholesale dry-goods
merchant, who makes splurge in
what is called society, is frequently
inferior in every respect. except in the
matter of capital, 70 his small
customer who keeps little store in q
| back street.
We do not expect the world to alter
jits estimate of people simply beca4es
We find fanlt with it, but little
reflection will chow that we are right
nevertheless.
The railIo,d king, from a politica.
economy point of view, is no differ
ent from a stsge-driver or locomo
tive-epgineer. The conductor OF th,
car ia quite as useful and respectable
a member OF the community as the
treasurer OF the company who receive
all the money and arranges for th'
dividends on the watered stock. Tn,
poor man or woman who sells toe
early cup OF coffee ia quite as worthy
person IS the wellsdressed cofe
importer broker who swaggers abou
Front and Water Streets.
And so we might 90 through tn
whole list OF occupations.
The great steamship compsnie, are
only hotelmen, cooks and boatm en-
The express companies are simpl.
messe myers over long distances. Tn
iron men are construotively black
smiths.
That maje.tic individual who ha
cargos OF sugar and tea consigned Il
him is only grocer, no better thar
the humblest in the came trade il
Avenue A. Trade is honorable; bu
trade is trade, any way you put it
No argument can get over this. Th'
president OF the Produce Exchange
is but another variety OF baker or con
iectioner. The whole civilized worlf
OF commerce ia a wol Id OF inn.keep
ers and shop keepers; and in reality
it is quite as respectable to keep I
peanut-atdnd, and sell five cents
worth, as to sell them in lots OF 8
hundred TONS"