Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-12
LEAGUE IS NOW
MADE Permanent
snirited Talks Mark Closing SEES
sion at Banquet Last
Night.
WILL MEET AGAIN IN JANUARY
a. mat Time Vice Presidents From
Each County Will be
selected.

win John Dern as its president
and Tishor Harris as its secretary,
.,,o Utah Development League came
.nto 5oflicial existence last night.
Backing its plan Of action is the
economic situation in Utah in which
every portion is demanding more
nm on nj the other portions, and in
which every portion has some need
for a special line of development IN
which the others can assist.
Tie two days of convention SEES
sions ended last night in the com
mcrcial clubs dining room, where an
elaborate banquet was served 10 tlie
visting delegates. John Dern acted as
toast-mastcr, and from the voice OF zeal
nat made themselves heard during
Inc function he might have been styl-
"a "roastmaster.'' Judge p. f. Col.
horn delivered himself Of a bitter,
concise and unsEaring Remuneration
Of salt Lake merchants and srocers
grating combinations, the high price,
Of living. stephen H. Love presented
a resolution which was adopted,
scvereIy denouncing the UNJUST ana
unfair railroad freight rates" out of
Utah. Lon j. HaddoclS wanted the
mail order evil stopped, and said SO
On a way to stir Chas. A. Quigley to
O pitch of fighting oratory,
The most pcacablc talk of the even
ing was made by soldier of the
4 Rebellion, Col. Frank b. Stterrett,
who told what the Grand Army en-
/, campment OF 1909 would mean to
Utah.
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Tho election of officers occurred
near midnight and was the final
business of the banquet session. Be
sides the selection of n treasurer IN
the person of b. N. C. Stott Of Eureka,
1t was ordered that the convention
reassemble in January, when a vice
president from each county Will be
selected.
The evening was spent largely IN
discussing and accepting resolutions.
Those adopted are against the mail
order evil, against removing the pre-,
sent tariff on lead, for building GOOD
roads, for an all-state exhibit In the
Chamber OF Commerce at Salt Lake,
for capitol building, and for an adj
justment of freight rates
Permanent plan of organization
was adopted. 1t gives the designation
OF utah Development League" to-
the organization, with n membership
to be composed of "all industrial and
commercial organizations within the
state and those that hereafter may
be formed.
The purposes Of the league are
stated to be to advance In every
Legitimate manner the growth and
prosperity of the state of Utah, to
promote uniformity in the customs
and usages of producers, manuiactur-
crs and merchants; seek renluneratiVc
market for home products. foster
capital, and protect labor; encourage
manufacturing, COLLECT and dissent
nate valuable agricultural, horticul-4
atural, mining, manufacturing. ana
commercial information. extend ana
develop trades, commerce, the arts
manufactures, agriculture, irrigation
dry-farming, merchandising, banking
mining, smelling, the live stock and
wool-growing industries; educational
and labor interests. and TO do any
and all things to promote the interests
Of the state.
PLAN OF ORGANIZATION.
The members of the league shall be
the officials OF the clubs affiliated with
it, or their duly accredited proXy-hold-
ers. Bylaws may be introduced at any
meeting and adopted by n majority
vote. The executive committee is to con-
sist of the president and the vice presl-
dents, and any five or these shall con-
stitute Il quorum. The meetings are
to be of two kinds, one coming every
January in Salt Lake and another every
July at some point TO be designated II
the meeting that calls for them, or in
the call from the executive committee
announcing them.
This plan was adopted without on
position, after being submitted in thu
Z form of 10 articles by l.. w. Jones'.
chairman of the committee which was
composed Of one representative from
each county.
John Dern, in opening the evenings
proceedings, spoke of the need for bet
ter feeling i'll the greater Utah that IS
to be created. and he said that in SAT-
Lake Mayor Bransford was to be COM
Inended as the city's executive, but that
he was hampered because the councils
men We're not sufficiently paid for their
work.
Col Sterrett in speaking of the G.. A,
r. cncampment spoke OF its members
as Il vanishing army, who are passns
away at the rate OF a regiment a week.
1T now consists of 100000 members. he
said, With u death rate of 144 members
a day. AS 4 lesson in patriotism and
as /, commercial asset to 4 community
lie said there was no parallel to the
Grand Army encampments, and that
all those who participated would be
glad for having done SO.
LABOR HEARD
Austin Davis. secretary of the state
Federation Of Labor, spoke for the
recognition of union labor, and de-
nounced the Importation of large bodies
OF foreign labolers into Utah industrial
fields, when these laborers We're certain
to send out in Il perpetual yellow
stream all the net earnings of their
+ labor. The employment by American
capitalists Of foreign laborefs he SAID
had created a cruX in the labor sltua-
ton.
Judge Colborn, IN responding to a
toast on the relationship Of salt Lana
to the growth OF the state, seVerelN
scored local merchants for their hign
prices stephen II. Love, speaking ~
the traffic bureau. said that the ran
roads enjoyed very good thing II
Utah. and that the problem of reatle-
ing the rites; WAS the problem OF get
ting them to give up q good thins
that they found ii desirable to keep fos
tliefi, own purposes.
'SometnIng should be done IN the
next legislature, he said, TO estaplisn
n railroad commission and 1 5espeSl
aefore the legislature meets that the
traffic bureau will take some step in
that direction.
Q. H Hewlett pointed out Judge COL
& born as one..Swhoe was mot a good cltl-
zen because he advocated buying QUIZ
side OF the state.' Judge Colborn III
reply said he welcomed the bad citizer-
snip that called for q square deal from