Show regarding slump in price of copper during month 0 the spectacular slump in the price of copp r during the last few weeks illustrates the close relation of the mining industry to other great in dustrich and its dependence upon general economic conditions says the engineering and mining journal ii a recent editorial the copper sl mp was another of those almost perpendicular crashes which have taken place in quick succession in 7 cotton sugar wheat and corn it w Is like a row of domines it Is al together a fine aw point is to which falls first 27 but that they fall in the end 14 inevitable some ff of the in a destries dus tries effected jaw hare taken the w slump as an unexpected with surer ise and indignation ja 5 the cot ton growers sis for example briw visite d washington and interviewed secre tary houston demanding sy that 47 the government i do something ai to hold up the price of aff cotton similarly tha y wheat wi growers charge some where conspiracy which has caf result w ed in lowering the price of wheat fajt be low what is claimed to be i the ff cot fay of growing and they also sy demand that the fay government do 27 some fy thing but neither these plaintive cries for help nor the violence of the night ra afaf ders of sy the south will have W any W effect iffa on tvs the great ziKy economic f laws y which are moving n in the diree tion 7 that has been foretold by every fa economist hea and financier since the war and Is as bwy clear and si as f un f ir avoidable as the law of gravity w I 1 x aiu r |