Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-04
CONFERENCE BUSINESS

Some OF our country contemporaries
are advising their nelghbors VINO are
coming to Conference, not to make pur'
ehases ia this city, but to buy "ha'
they want at home. They declare 'ha'
what is newest, cheapest and best can
be had better in the country towns
than at the capital Of the state Also
they intimate that those visitors are
considered as an easy mark by deal
ers whose hooks are baIted for the
seml-annual crop OF suckers
It is quite proper for each paper To
speak In favor Of It's own town. That
Is only to be expected. Its success de-
ponds chiefly upon local support A
newspaper is one 81 the great levers by
which city Is raised to emlnence ana
wealth. Every community should sus-
tain It's own public Journal. and every
public Journal should sustain It's own
community. But there are limits to
this rule as there. are to others
we would not like the people who
flock to this city at Conference time to
obtain the notion that the merchants
and business firms OF Salt Lake are on
the lookout for country folks. with a
view to taking advantage OF them. In
the first place most Of them are too
shrewd to be taken in that way They
know the quality Of goods and their
value as well, perhaps, as others. In the
next place, established houses such as
advertise IN the News for instance,
and IN other papers, have their regular
methods and fixed prices, and are TO be
depended upon In their dealings. They
want the Conference trade" Of course,
but try to make II OF mutual adyan-
tagc to the buyer and the seller.
There are places In this city no
doubt. as In all other large towns
where the verdant visitor may be TAX
en- In and sold" But they are not the
regular stores that have established
regulations. Such clap-trap and
"Cheap John auction shops are not
peculiar to Salt Lake, and people who
are not familiar with their tricks should
avoid them wherever they are. II visi-
tors will deal with well known firms in
this city, they will not have occasion to
regret their purchases,
Is there any advantage In buying
goods In this clty2 Certainly, The
very stores In the country that natur-
ally want to keep their local trade get
most of their supplies here. One advan-
tage is In the greater variety Of goods
which the large houses are able to keen
The fresher styles, the better qualities
the greater contrasts, that they offer
make 1t desirable for purchasers to
and choose TO their own
taste. Then there are wares to be OBJ
tanned here that cannot be had In many
of the country towns. and buyers viii
find II to their interest to look at them
and may depend on the word Of our
merchants for the quality
and worth OF what they offer
We endorse the advice Of our coun-
Try contemporaries TO Conference vlsl-
.ors not TO be enticed into buying
'shoddy" goods under the impression
hat they are getting bargains But we
viii add, such wares are not to be found
n Salt Lake City alone The same eau
ion ls necessary everywhere, and not
iere more than In other places that
night be named We win not say to
,ur contemporaries look at home" be-
'ause that might be as suggestive as
heir own unpleasant reflections upon
'alt Lake. But II Is just as well at
ZONE, as abroad. 10 look a leetle out