The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-05
PROVO CITY
AS TO SALT LAKE.

For the last several months good
deal of discussion has been going on
among the country papers as to the at
titude of Salt Lake towards the other
towns of Utah, in both social and
business way. The concensus of
opinion is to the effect that in social
matters the capital city is proud, ar
ragant, oYerbearing and inclined to
that holier-than-thou air which can be
made very odious to towns and villages
of less Importance commercially AID
in point of population, riches, grace
and culture. Unless Salt Lake needs
the presence of the inhabitants of the
outlying towns to increase her social
Importance upon occasion, they are
never invited there and there is little
or 40 attention paid them, even when
invited upon some special occasion.
When conference season comes the
merchants of the city invite the country
people by large and expensive adver
tisements in the Salt Lake papers, to
come into town, But it is beginning
to percolate the heads of these same
country folk that it is not altogether
due to the great interest felt by these
merchants in their spiritual welfare
which induces them to throw wide
their doors-store doors-and to write
eloquent invitations to them, in the
newspapers of Salt Lake to be present
in Zion at conference time 1t is their
retail trade these good merchan is are
after and when the country folk haYe
returned home and have opened their
bales and bundles and they find they
have paid from ten to twenty per cent.
higher for their goods than these
could have been bought from home mer-
chants, they are enabled to see very
plainly that 1t was not their spiritual
good which the sleek and oily mer-
merchants of Zion had in view when
writing the aforesaid cordial invita-
tions to come up to the great temple
and worship for a season. A good big
disgust grows up in the breasts of the
deluded country people and conse-
quence is that next year they will not
carry as much money on this yearly
or semi yearly pilgrimage as they have
been in the habit of doing.
Does not all this hint at the true ex.
PLANTATION of the gradual falling off of
the conference trade" in both volume
and profit? 1t is always best to deal
candidly and frankly with people of
honest purposes, especially if one de-
sires to retain their good opinion and
trade. Trade goes by favor a good
deal like other things, and if one con-
templates trade and that permanent,
too, he must give good goods at fair
prices, and good treatment also. A bit
of social atte ltion, generous act
something to cause the countryman to
believe that there is something unset
fish, something other than the mere
fleeing in prospective. in the mind of
the merchant or business man of the
city of Zion and the trade will increase
and the margins also.
The railroads issue flaming circulars
and in lovely blue and red lettered
posters together with reduced rates
very little reduced-gather the crowds
into the gates of the Holy City pre-
paratory to the skinning process. Just
how the "diYy" is made between the
merchants and the roads we are not
prepared to say, but the people may
be sure that the old, time-worn princi-
pie of "you-tickle-me-and- / 'u-ticnle-
you" prevails here as well as else
where, and it will obtain just as long
as the people of The county leave their
own merchants and tradesmen to
starve at home while they carry their
cash to Salt Lake tu the annual confer
ence. These lordly merchants of Zion
will not pay the papers of the country
towns a mareYedi for advertising,
simply because, under the arrange
ments we have spoken of above, they
don't have to. The gudgeon- catching
machIneis so improved that it is perfect
and there is nothing left to be desired in
this way. Let the good people of the
country 60 to Zion for the ostensible
reason only, buy their goods at home,
keep the money at home, or quarter
upon the inhabitants of Zion, eschew
hotels and boarding houses upon the
occasion of their visits there, and these
same merchants and business men will
sing another tune quite. They will be
compelled to divide their good things
with US while getting the lions share
of ours in the easy aud comfortable
way they are now doing.
We must teach these lordly would /
be GothamiteS that Utah was not made
for them exclusively, but that the out
side barbsrians are entitled to some
consideration at their hands, and, if
they don't get it, they shall not have
any more Of our conference cash.
THE New Star is after Mr.. F. S. Rich
ards for his enthusiasm for fe0aIe snf