Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-09-09
Butchers and Grocers Prepared
To Break Up Their Strong
Organization.
so SAYS LORENZO JENSEN,
With the Qualification, Providing
1t is in Opposition to Good
Public Policy.
Emphatic. However, That They Arc
Face of Existing Criticism.

The Butchers and Groccrs' associa-
ton in salt Lake stands ready to dis
solve. This statement IS given out
by Lorenzo Jensen. its manager and
organizer. today with a qualification.
The qualification is that it stands ready
TO dissolve If il is considered 20 De
in opposition TO any state law or good
public policy
In making the announcement. Secy.
Jensen laid particular stress on the
Importance Of having BE- fairly pre-
scented. do not go away and write
it up" he said. "that we have the
white feather. and are ready 90 Quit
You know as well as / know there are
big combines on the things retailer
has TO buy and the retailers organized
because organization was absolutely
necessary for their protection against
larger combines that were forcing
them right - the wall and creditors
who were too slow in paying 20 allow
a business house TO Keep alive. The
objects OF our association were good.
and dealt only with things absolute
~ necessary 10 keep alive We tried
10 shut of credit TO people unworthy
or credit. and l tell you solemnly that
my honest conviction is that you win
not dnd retailer In salt Lake clear
ing as high as five per cent on his
business.
WELCOME INVESTIGATION.
More than that welcome this iD-
| Nestlgauon. We retailers have 10 nav
the high coal prices, and the high pro
| vision prices, and We have TO buv an
I or me things that honest, hard working
! citizens have to buy for their families
and homes. II the cap fits us we WIN
wear IT, but it does not and we want
| the press TO keep going. and the grand
| jury 10 keep going TN Il finds the man
| the cap does at and then gut IL on him
We organized with our hearts RANT To-
! wards the people, and we Old not or
ganize TO rob. We are law abiding. ana
/ " We ma We are not in accordance
/ with the laws or with public sentiment.
/ we are not ready to make q feht Tor
| We are law abiding and we are ready
| TO dissolve first"
WILL GLADLY SELL OUT.
To the organizers Of cooperative
| stores, Mr. Jensen has a message. II
Is that they need not so 20 any expense
for fixtures and a stock OF supplies, for
| he declares there arc 40 stores I'm salt
Lake that would gladly sell out to the
| cooperative organizers at the cost OF
/ their stock, fixtures. delivery wagons.
/ and horses thrown IN On many cases.
/ This is because high cost Is making It
] more and more impossible 10 conduct
! business successfully
THE LIST.
When asked for "a list of people
/ with their stores now for sale. Mr.
! Jensen named Leo DYKES. j. q. Nor
rlson, Bert Olsen, l. ". Blockmarr, NJ
! 5. Rock Aberdeen Family store. c. q
| Baer, Ernest Smith n. d. Cook j. ~
| Doumas, J. r. Frame. ID Hcapes. Allen
1 Woolly. 9. W. Nelson. j. W. Marley
! a Co. oliver Pearson. John Taylor
/ Peck and Saunders $. W. Parker
! Jergensen and Dansy, r. f. Rich. VIM
! Stoneman. NJ. Shiugleton, +. ". VIII
/ son, j. b. Watson, N. l. Wolf and A.
| Kramer and Sons, 81. ]. Wolf and A
I B. Nelson
Men who have recently sold out
/ largely he explains on account % in-
/ creaslug cost beyond the revenues. are
/ G., J. Morrison, Ander and Burg. Bixbv
and Rinders. Aberdeen Family store
| Farren and Sheen, Hemsley and
/ Emsley. A. c. Smoot. A. T. Anderson.
/ Greenside Grocery. J. w. SalIllc. j. 81
/ boWdedge Wallace BOweriug. South
/ side Grocery. Grocery Supply COM
/ pany wallace lowering. South Side
! Grocery, Wells, and company r. Ross
I HHNtANR AANN'As AANII INtANANa clarence NHNLH
/ erson, +. J. BrauunE. William Bros.
/ Jos Hartman, M. s. Rock. Robert
/ Brady. and Foulger Bros
! one very lage mercantile drm here
/ offers TO let inspectors examine their
I retail grocery department, 90 prove
! their assertion that q does not clear
I per cent per anuum.
OGDEN UNEASY.
In ogden a merchant declared SAT-
/ urday that he thought tho agitation
/ in salt Lake was soaring the asso-
/ citation there, because he had not re-.
/ cciyed a price lst that week f0r the
| FIRST time In several years.
| When Lorenzo Jensen was asked to-
| day n he did not think 90 would be
I fairor 20 leave tho selling prlCe OF goods
| 10 each mdividua. merchant and let
| him succeed or ial according TO his
/ own intelligence and ability a. hRu.e
l out a living pfalt instead of trying
/ 90 force each man 90 sell 40 "a given
price. through an association. regard
/ less OF the expenses each man must
meet. he declared that whatever hoy-
cotting and threats t1 boycott had boon
made were By Individual members. ana
NOT bv the association as such.