The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-30
UNClGAN, WATEREO MILK HAD
BEEN FURNISHED.

The Salt Lake Tribune handles the
milk dealers of that city without gloves
in the following editorial. every word
OF which we approve:
No more contemplate. and at the
same time scandalous. confession was
ever made 10 an American community
than is made at the present time by
The milk dealers who supply Salt Lake
City. Heretofore these dealers have
been furnishing their customers with
milk and giving sixteen and eighteen
quarts 10 the dollar, more recently.
since there were signs of better regu-
lation and conformity TO sanitary re-
QuirementS, there has been raise. so
that only fourteen quarts were given
for dollar; but. now that the milk
ordinance is In full force and effect.
requiring milk To be pure. clean, un-
adulterated, and wholesome. the milk
dealers give notice that they intend
TO fleece the public, and Will give only
twelve quarts for a dollar
Surely the significance of this must
not have struck the milk dealers, or
they would not, even for much money.
have made such a confession 1t means
that so long as they were allowed
10 furnish unclean, watered. or doc
tored' milk, they were willing TO give
fourteen to eighteen quarts for dol
lar but as soon as the ordinance and
regulations required them to furnish
pure, clean. and healthful milk, they
make their customers pay one dollar
for .iuf1ltr1 rfc Tho
is that since the ordinance and the in
spection are so strict. 1t costs them
more TO handle their milk, therefore.
they must charge more for It.
This is an open confession, not only
that the milk dealers have been fur
nishinE impure and unfit milk. but
that they have been conscious all the
time that they were doing this; that
they did it deliberately, recklcssly and
without regard for the health and wei
fare OF their customers; therefore.
they deserve to lose the trade of those
customers An honest milk dealer Will
see that his customers get pure and
wholesome milk without any inspec-
ton; an honest. conscientious man
does not need a strict ordinance and
inspection to cause him to furnish his
customers pure milk fit for babes and
children to drink The natural pre-
sumption would be that the dealers
have been furnishing that kind of milk
all the time; in fact, they have al
ways claimed to be furnishing good
milk. pure milk. clean milk They now
confess that they have been doing
nothing of the kind, and that, in order
to supply clean. wholesome milk, and
AT the same time make their customary
profits, they must raise the price Of
milk fifteen TO twenty per cent, Which
is a shocking, revolving confession that
the milk dealers who supply this city
have thus made in behalf of them
selves, giving themselves away as be-
ing reckless purveyors. Indifferent 10
The public health, careless of the death
of babes and children. liars. and de-
ceiyers in the past as proved by their
showing at the present time.
Nothing could so tempt anyone to
wish TO revive the old laws fixing
arbitrary prices for common foods
and head off eXtortion as this action of
the milk dealers who supply Salt Lake.
and others here who trade In food
stuffs and are constantly raising prices
simply because they are required TO
supply pure foods fit for consumption
by the people.