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Show ties to take action against the combine. At that time the appeal was effective and coal prices were restored. Since then, with each advance ad-vance the Standard has registered its protest, but of late the state officers have been less responsive to the demands of the press and the people. ' The protests now being voiced may bring about an awakening, though it i3 like trying to arouse the dead. Of late the Salt Lake Hcrald-Republican has joined in the chorus calling on the authorities to act, but the peculiar thing about the Herald's Her-ald's outcry is that the owners of that paper arc the very men to whom the appeals for aid are being directed and to whom we must look for relief. ' The Herald calls on the Herald and the only answer is an echo. We would feel more encouraged if that paper were to announce that, at its next directors' meeting, the whole subject of coal rates would be considered, and until a decision had been reached, the Herald would remain discreetly silent. There would then be hope that the owners of the Herald are disposed to do something more than exhaust themselves in volubility. THE COAL EXCITEMENT. When the price of coal was raised from $5 and $5.25 to $5.75 a ton, on November 15, 1903, the Standard called on the state authori- |