Show THEY WILL AVILL FIND FINI TIlE THE SOLUTION Readers Hea ers of or public papers in Salt Lake havoc havo beon a a. s-oo s good deal interested In tho the reports of or that legislative commission which Is Investigating the coal situation There Thero Is a subject which comes very close to the thc home and the Iho heart of the people This Tills city has Ims just gone part partway partway wa way through that most distressing experIenc a r a coal famine There is plenty of or coal In Utah An And the tho commission commission com coin mission Is trying to lo find out wh why with plenty plent of coal inthe in inthe the he state the lie famine has existed They rhey are more interested in the the work now now b being prosecuted by Senators Love and Lawrence because the statement is ma made e by witnesses that another famine will come next winter There seems to lo be no relie relief from a condition which never should exist And n if Ir there Is to tobe tobe be no explanation of or the famine an ry of of T the tho t J past and nr an and or no i escape from om the famine in tho the future th the people of Salt Lake want to kno know know why That Is Is what S Senates Senate's Love Love Loven and n l. l Lawrence are trying t to find find out Il and and it it 1 is what I at the tho people expect them their to find out All through the cold weather of or the winter now drawing to a close close but but not yet entirely the vanished vanished the coal companies have assured their patrons that they have been hee doing the best they the could You gave your or order er and deposited the money to lo pay for tine Iho coal you yot ou wanted wante and you OU were told lold that that- the they would bring the coal as soon as the they could Maybe laYbe It would b be four weeks eel s. s It certainly would not h be earlier than three weeks If JC you didn't put down own the money with tho the order OI ar you ou were told b by the clerks that the they didn't care to book the order Now there thore are man many coal mines In Utah It t has been boastfully said b by ever every paper in to n town that there thero is ismore ismore Ismore more bituminous coal In Utah than In an any slate of the Union and 31 that Is Is' Is probably entirely true Ian 1 Many mines are owned b by private parties and anal b by companies which are arc not supplied with railroads These private ate coal mines are not in operation Why h That Is what Senators Love an and Lawrence are arc trying to find out The rhe railroad companies are also miners of coal That Is to say auxiliary companies identical railroad companies but under different names are arc mining and shipping all nIl the coal that I Is s coming to market in Utah Ulah Why Is not the lie coal of or tho the private private coal oal owner brought rought to market Is It because e the tho railroad companies which are aro Interested in their own concerns refuse to furnish transportation to the tho coal men nten who a are e not In the railroads railroads' railroads railroads' rail rall- roads roads' own auxiliary companies Or Is It because the freight rate P the railroad companies to lo privat pro producers of coal Is so sohl so hl high h I that private ate Plo producers can not market their product IF THE RAILROAD CO COMPANIES IPA IES ARE GOI GOING G TO PREVENT PRIVATE OWNERS SELLING CO COAL COL L roTHE TO ro THE PEOPLE THEN TI-IEN THE OBLIGATION IS ON ON THE THE RAILROAD COMPANIES COl TO SUPPLY THE TRADE If Ie tho the condition Is one In which no owner of or a private mine can get his coal to Salt Lake then the thc railroad companies companies com com- panics which through auxiliary c companies own and control and operate mines of their own are UNDER OBLIGATION OBLIGATION OB OB- TO PREVENT T THE FA FAMINE Th The situation is serious enough It touches touches- every family In the city It affects ever every manufacturer no now located locatell here Senators Love Lo and Lawrence wrence have hav taken the right course cOUlse They are men of affairs and there is no danger danser of or their doing injustice to any railroad company compan or other corporation The They are are not anarchists anarchists or socialists They are Republicans Republicans- The They ar are pr practical business men Thc They know how They know what is b needed an and what is wanted by the people of Utah Ulah These same people of Utah are watching the progress I of the inquiry very carefully And every household In I the city ever every manufacturer manufacturer-In vin the state stale Is Interested In a fair Calr and just and equitable settlement m nt of or the 1 whole whoa e matter mailer And no no more coal famines for famInes for Salt Lako Lake I |