The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-03
WILL FIGHT
FOOD TRUST
Realty Men of Salt Lake City
Decide TO Put Laws TO
the Test.
ASKS PUBLIC FOR SUPPORT
Ten Thousand Dollar "War Fund" To
BE Raised To Fight The
Combine.

An open letter to the Salt Lake
Public:
The time has come for action. The
Salt Lake Real Estate association is
ready. Our relation with the oppo-
sition to the high cost of living in
Salt Lake was not primarily by in
tention, We got into the discussion
through a combination of circum-
stances, but being in we are willing
to to stay in to the end of effort and
the law
We now offer our services 10 the
people of Salt Lake in the general
defense against the assaults of trusts.
whatever their name and whatever
their unlawful practices.
We are ready to stand for the peo-
pie against commercial rapacity and
greed
We offer to lead a movement
against every unlawful combination
for the restraint of competition in the
sale of breadstuffs, coal. hay, grain,
building materials, and every Other
commodity necessary TO give com
fort to the community or protect it
| from hunger and cold.
We propose to put to the test the
| laws OF Utah.
We propose TO put to the test the
officers charged by law with their
| enforcement.
We propose to have it determined
speedily whether the people of Salt
| Lake shall continue to be the victims
of unlawful combinations in restraint
of trade. or shall be free therefrom
and have the benefit Of honest com
| petition in the purchase of the neces-
saries of life.
| We propose to have it determined
whether the growth and development
of this city shall he retarded and pre-
vented by an organization of the
greedy and rapacious. To this end:
The Salt Lake Real Estate as
sociation, which stands for greater
city and for the happiness and pros
perity of all its people, proposes to
raise a fund of $40, 900, wherewith
to employ eminent special counsel
and secure evidence to bring about
the destruction by law of every trust
operating in this city and state to the
detriment of the people. The asso-
citation hereby heads this subscrip-
ton with $500 and invites contribu-
ton to the fund in sums of cents
|
eXpend this sum faithfully and intel
| ligently to the accomplishment of the
desired end, and. that there may be
no question of the honesty OF our
purpose, to invite the cooperation in
its expenditure of three representa-
tive citizens, to be named at mass
meeting hereafter by this association
| to be called.
This is our offer. All we ask is
loyal. moral and financial support.
DO the people want to join us in a
movement that shall go to the very
root of iniquity and liberate them.
selves from all we suffer through or
ganizations and combinations to
wiring from us unfair profits by un-
lawful methods II they do, here is
their opportunity.
Address all communications and
subscriptions to the office OF j. l..
| Perkes, secretary of the Salt Lake
Realty association. DC West Third
South street.
Receipts for all subscriptions how
ever small will be promptly issued.
SALT LAKE REAL ESTATE ASSO-
CIATION
The war upon high prices and the
food com bines began to take definite
shape last night when the Real Es-
tate association issued Il call to the
public to Join hands with them in
bringing to justice the men who form
the combine which has made the cost
of living in Salt Lake prohibitive. At
an enthusiastic meeting of the mem
bers of the Real state association
it was decided to continue its crusade
without combining with other asso-
Citations. An appeal was issued to the
public to raise a fund of $4,000
with which TO defray a sympathetic
investigation of the affairs in Salt
Lake, to hire special counsel and to
press prosecutions where the evil
dence secured would warrant
The association itself voted $500
to head the list and will call Il mass
meeting in the near future at which
three prominent citizens will be chos-
en- to handle the fund and other de
tails will be discussed,
The real estate men also issued
a letter to the mayor and city council
calling attention to the present con-
dition of affairs here and asking that
an investigation he made into the
matter of peddlers in Salt Lake. It
is declared that the practices of the
food trust have stopped the hucksters
and peddlers of the city from carry
ing on their trade so that the grocers
could reap tie greater harvest as
result of their closed corporations.
The letter asks that existing ordin-
ances which deter the peddlers from
operating be amended or repealed so
that a new branch of competition can
be had with which to break the COM
bine.
/ Won't BE II Whitcwash.
: Feeling that the present agitation
is the result of their own initiative.
the real estate men decided not to
, combine their investigation with any
other A letter was directed to the
M. & NJ association declining to CO.
operate with their proposed investi-
! CATION of the combine. Although the
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