Show HOW WOULD IT WORK The Herald copies the trust law of Utah and demands that the smelting trust shall be prosecuted and charges that the reason It Is not prosecuted Is because the Republicans prefer to have it pay an assessment for campaign expenses ex-penses to having Justice done That Is not very brave business We published pu lished the other day that the trust has peremptorily refused any contribution contribu-tion giving as a reason that It wants free lead in Utah Now suppose the machinery of the low was set In motion and the managers man-agers of the trust were to be arraigned charged with conspiracy to hold up the miners and to exact from them tin undue un-due proportion of the value of their ores that a general denial should be entered contest every charge In the complaint what then What proof could the Herald furnish for Instance that there was a conspiracy that It I was formed for the purpose of exacting I too much plunder from the miners 1 whom would the Herald call for witnesses I nesses Would the fact that more was being charged now for manipulating ores than was charged two ean ago establish a conspiracy Suppose the members of the trust testified that they ran the furnaces two years ago at a loss Again suppose they testified that they did not compel any on6 to sell them ores that they own some furnaces that they buy ores where they best can that they are pursuing pur-suing an entirely legitimate business would the result be anything but a large expense to the State Suppose that then they called the owners of the principal lead mines and they heard from them that the terms were entirely en-tirely satisfactory that they had always al-ways had fair treatment and did not desire any change then what Again I what could be established against the smelting trust that could not be aganlst the Federated Trades or the Coop or the physicians and surgeons of the city or the lawyers or the Salt Lake Herald for selling a paper for more than It Is worth being a conspiracy con-spiracy to put out a cheap newspaper I and charge a firstclass price I our neighbor thinks the male over seriously seri-ously It will arrive at the conclusion that perhaps Its wholesale charges of conspiracy to rob have not very much foundation in fact that its charges have not very much foundation that could be established In n court I It does wo shall expect a retraction but we shall not expect It before the 7th or Sth of November and then wo suspect our neighbor will feel as though the world had gone to the universal bowwows bow-wows any way and one or two more trusts would not count for a great deal |