The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-18
BUTTER VERSUS THEATERs.

There has been a good deal said
from time to time about the high
price of butter in this city and the
short weight of the butter packages.
The Tribune has printed two articles
recently from the Social Service Com
mission of the Episcopal Church for the
District of Utah upon this question.
Those articles dealt plainly and
straigbtforwardly with the question of
short weights where the dealers give
fifteen ounces of butter to the pound.
Honesty and fair dealing require that "A
pound Of butter should contain sixteen
ounces and that the price should not
be cxtortouate. The Tribune is III
full sympathy with the commission plea
referred 10, and comnIends that body
for it's service in bringing this matter
TO the public attention,
The butter dealers in their conten-
tion, claim that, as long as they put
on the label that the package contains
but fifteen ounces. they are within their
rights, and arc acting honestly with
their customers aud according to law.
There arc the two positions. The pub
lie is undoubtedly with the Episcopal
commission, desiring full weight and
honest prices.
But it appears that there is AN al
together different view taken Of this
matter in some quarters. We find this
view ingenuously and iugeniously cX-
pressed in the Weekly Reflex, printed
at Kaysville. in Davis county This
view offsets the cxtortionatc price Of
butter against the amusement habits
of the people OF Salt Lake City, and
plainly urges that as long as Salt Lake
| City people spend so much money in
| amusements. they have no business to
make any complaint either at short
| weight or cxtortionatc prices in the
matter Of butter. We give the "argn-
ment' Of the Reflex as follows:
| The Reflex does not rejoice when the
poor man iS oppressed. II desires 80
sec the ncccssarics OF life sold al "A rea-
sunabc price. u believes thJt the pro-
Queer and consumer of food should each
have q square deal
| But We can not help noticing what
seems 20 us a great inconsistency on ihc
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| City. Every time there is an advance in
the price of butter they raise great
lullaballoo.
But even while they arc hullaballooins
they are spending five times as much
| money for theater tickets AS Tor butter.
| Why not complain little about the price
| OF thcatcr tickets instead Of complaining
| so much about The price OF butter? A
| head OF q family ia salt Lake viii pay
| two dollars FOR ,bcater ticket. or four
| dollars for two and never gruUt about
the price. but when his grocer charges
| him forty cents Tor a pound of number
| one butter. he gets all worked up.
| The people Of Salt Lake City spend
more money fm' FUN than for food. They
spend more money fOr amuscments than
| mode OF ifc they are not so much to be
piied because their Gr'ocers charge them
| forty cents a pound for butter Shall
| the theater make all tho money and tho
butter maker make none? Let's have 4
| square deal.
IT ~ very true that the Reflex is print
! cd IN a JairyinG district Bat does this
fact viiiatc Tie above argument? 40.
Now. the people of Salt Lake City
are expected. il appears. to quit going
tn theaters and give M their amusc-
ments before they have any right 10
complain either Of short weight or high
prices in butter. THIS * an expectation
which most people will find it difficul,
10 respond to-. aud. so far as the off
setting OF dishonest weights aud cz-