| Show ter i LET Tj THE GALLED JADE WINCE d tp The Salt Lake Herald Republican Herald Republican Republican- M State Mine Inspector Petits Petit's report I that hat coal production in Utah has decreased decreased de tie- creased 20 per cent due to importation t. t J. J tion of Canadian coal into the thu market 0 Utah producers have heretofore enjoyed enjoyed en en- f joyed gives every Utahn food for thought It is a blow at Utah commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial eminence that cannot be accepted accepted accepted ac ac- with re resignation The market Utah producers have heretofore enjoyed seems such auch a happy phrase that many of the coal buyers in this market 4 will at once agree with the tho statement statement state state- ment went and will even concede that tha t they enjoyed it too much In J fact this coal question is such a JOYO joyous s subject that we fear the coal-buying coal public will vill find it hard to weep with the producers aforesaid In considering matters of this kind much depends on our point I of view If we consider the question question ques ques- tion from the viewpoint that our government should always try k to confer the most good on the greatest num number ber of its subjects t then the writer is looking in the wrong end of the telescope On c the other hand if we believe that our capitalistic institutions should hould be safeguarded against that comp competition to which the small man in every vocation is ti i exposed exposed- if we beli believe ve that the prices of necessaries should be I artificially established then we must admit that there is cause I Ifor for alarm in the alleged importation importation importation import import- of Canadian coal r. r There is a growing suspicion r among the people of this county countr r that there is something radically radical radical- ly wrong about the local coal market and they would appreciate appreciate tt some relief from wh whatever source it might come Sanpete county adjoins both Carbon Oar bon and Emery counties one of the greatest greatest great great- tt est coal producing regions in the United States Yet we cannot I r recollect the time when this this this-ne necessary ne- ne commodity was sold soM for less than per the lo local local local lo- lo cal there have been times within recent years when a sufficient supply of coal could not be had llad at any v standing the fact that Nature has lIas laid such a bounteous store storey y of vf the fuel just beyond our thresh olds In view of the fact that the Republican Herald has in the past championed the cause of thep the when people p people ople when they sought relief from the conditions that obtained obtainS obtain obtain- S 'S ed in inthe the coal oal market we are surprised at its alarm on account of the promised relief from an unexpected source |
