Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-16
Farmers and Fruit Growers to
Deal Direct With the
People.
OTHER CITIES ARE TROUBLED
Denver l. Wondering What to Do
While seattle Introduces Nu-
nicipnl Competition.

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of tho recent agitation over che proc
vauug high price OF livIue. rh, whole
.aic combination and tho johhor come
bnati1n and the retail combination
thut took enough profit out ot SD
cent hushcI OF Brigham city apples t1
make it cost the salt Lake consumer
S. Is to Doc fought with tho one weapon
90 hand.-the re-openiur of long FORE
gotten channels OF competition
Next Saturday afternoon at 1880
O'Clock O. convention OF farmers and or
charlIsts viii meet in the city ana
County building To- discuss marketing
crops and orchard products without the
help or the commission man. iudopend-
emit Of The combine OF jobbors, and not
thrauQh the retail store with its COM
tract tO deal only with the iohhcr who
deals only with the commission uau.
who deals only with the farmer and
PAYS him whatever De WILL
Tho farmers are coming together bee
cause they see chance tl form o. new
combination directly with the people.
and shut out the other combinations,
who they think forgot to leave good
enough alone. and squeezed the market
90 little too hard for everybody cone
ccrned. especially the farmers Who
didn't lie the discrepancy H'iWoou
what they were gctting ana ihc ro-
talers were charging at the other end
OF the combines
WILL OPPOSE HIGH LICENSES.
Among other things the now oruni-
zation will take arp the matter OF lice
cnses imposed tp discriminate against
the suckster and the poddler Of milk
as well as of farm products, II VIII
also plan to open a cooperative market
here to compete directly with the rec
tauers for public trade. and may oa-
tablish minimum rate that commits
sion men win have 60 pay TO- handle
their goods
TROUBLE elsewhere.
Tho sister cities OF salt Lake are
an fighting the food combination just
as this city is. some OF them have
also reached the stage of striking
back with some available weapon.
Especially b. this so I'm Seattle. whilo
Denver is just little behind salt
Lake i'm that the exposure of CNIst-
ing conditions are just being made
there. Tn S~attle the public marl'Ct.
by which the municipality fref
lights the combine by throwing pub
&C. land open free 60 farm wagons. is
reported 20 be a great success. More
than that a municipal lighting plant
has made such a success Of eight cent
electricity that 10 is ready Co announce
still further reduction fnd the pri-
vate company is being driven from
It's 10 cent rate everywhere within
the city limits. II refused 20 bulge
from this rate although am means of
persuasion were exhausted before the
competition was established by the
municipality,
IN SAN FRANCISCO
In San Francisco "a new antitrust
law IS being vigorously enforced. and
the papers there chronicle reductions
Of 90 and 80 per cent I'm many COM
modities as a direct and immediate
result
In Denver the meat markets and
The grocery stores are being given
the overhauling that Salt Lake gave
them "a month ago. There the butch
or blames loudly the packer OF meat
and the packer OF meat blames the
stockman, and the stOCkman hlames
the grain man and the grain man
blames tho farmer and the farmer
blames the storm king.
Meanwhile the housewives Of the
city are taking 20 spagttu and noodle
soup as a family diet TO beat the
butcher, and a general boycott -
butcher shops has been declared by
the public with common consent
THE GRAND JURY.
Salt Lake IS the only city I'm the
west to look Co the grand jury Tor a.
remedy Denver has not yet decid-
ed what 20 do san Francisco went
20 the legislature for a new and dras-
&c law. Seattle took nap municipal
competition, and Portland followed
suit. What the outcome Zoo salt Lake
viii be from the grand jury iuvcsti-
cation 30 is sull TOO early To- tell. but
inc prop lsod meeting NJ farmers on
Saturday suggests "a field 90 interest
lnC experiment iu which the farmers
believe that both themselves and the
public will profit
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