The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-11
VOICE PROTEST
AGAINST HIGH
FOOD PRICES
Commercial Club Delegates
Denounce Prices Maintained
in Utah on Necessities.
START FORMATION OF
DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE
ORGANIZATIONS IN
STATE ARE REPRESENTED
AT GATHERING.

= TODAY's CONVENTION PROGRAM \
= Call to order by President Halloran y
= at 1879 o'clock.
= Paper on sThe Conservation of the '
y ]. ". \. WhitecottOn of Utah coun- =
: ty.
Paper on 1.-THE Des -Aoines Plan of y
y II. King.
y Discussion.
! Paper on The Interest of the ;
4 State at Large in the Growth and :
= Prosperity of the Capital City" by =
y Professor L. S. Hinckley Of Utah =
= county.
' AFTERNOON SESSION. =
y Paper on tine Economic Value OF =
= Good Roads by D. r. Roberts of :
y Cache county.
\ Report of the committee on resolu- =
y tions
! Banquet at $50 in the Commercial =
y Club dining room.
y Report of the committee on plan =
y of permanent organization.
y Speech on What a National Grand =
y Army Encampment Means to
y State" by Colonel Frank NJ. Setr-
: Selection of the next meeting place =
y of the convention and other adj =
= dresses
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The meeting of the thirty-two CONNER
cial and Industrial organizations whose
representatives gathered at the CONNER
cial club yesterday to form the Utah
Development league was marked by the
scathing denunciation of the prices which
are maintained in Utah upon the neces-
sites of life. After the reading of a
paper by Lon J. Haddock on The Mail
order Evil" the convention broke into
a violent discussion, Ia which the local
merchants IN the state were handled with
out gloves. But ore man rose in their
defense, and his protest was drowned OUT
by torrent of protest against the graft
ing merchants"
Four delegates from associations OF re-
taiiers were refused seats in the cOnven-
| ton by the committee on credentials on
the ground that their associations were
not public associations working for the
good Of the state
The organizations which participated
represent the most powerful influences
throughout the whole state and a mag
nificent start was made toward the for
nation of the league.
Unity and cooperation constituted the
keynote of the gathering and the dele
gates attacked the MANY momentouS
problems which confronted the conven-
ton in a buSineSSlike manner. The en-
thusiasm which prevailed. the attention
which the papers received, the earnest
ness of the subsequent discussion and the
vigor with which the business was hand
led all combined to augur a brilliant fu-
ture for thu league
The first days sessions gave a good
healthy start TO the incipient organization
The delegation was thoroughly repre4
sentative one and men were there from
all corners of the state Every town and
city of any size was represented. so that
all communities in Utah had a hand in the
mn cd a
Delegates Are Welcomed.
W. J. HalIoran, president of the Com
r1ercial club called the convention To
order at 1890. He named /. l.. Reynolds
of the Weber club of Ogden as secre-
tary OF the convention sessions and in
troduced Governor John c. Cutler, the
first speaker. who welcomed the dele
gates. Governor Cutters speech was as
follows:
Il regard the combined social and COM
mercial organizations represented nero
today as 2 great power for good IN any
community. 1t would be a good thing II
every city and town of any size in the
state could have its commercial club or
similar body TO isok after the interests
of the place and keep IL abreast Of OthNr
cities iF-the march Of latter-day progress
Where these clubs have been esta blished
their benefits have been at once appar-
ent and are increasing as time goes On
and opportunity offers
IF this is the case with a single iso-
lated organization IL seems lnnpOSSlDle 10
compute the good that the combins ton
OF these organizations into a develop
ment league can do for the state.
Like all other states. Utah needs the
help OF these organizations and the men
composing them.
while the commission on country life
appointed by President Roosevelt was In
session at the governors office week
ago great emphasis was laid on the mat
ter Of sanitation in the smaller cities and
towns and on the beautifying OF those
places II appears to me that there could
scarcely be considered more timely or
vital subjects than these.
II believe but few will question the W.
gent need of Improvement in these drec-
tons And while I have noted consider
able advancement since I became COVER
nor. there is yet room and opportunity for
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