Show LEAD The Tariff Question becoming an Important Topid A Meeting at tie Walker House Tast Evening Which Makes a Fine Beginning I I Professor Holden to go to Washington Wash-ington Agreeable to adjournment a meeting was held last evening in theWalker House parlors of those interested in the lead question in Utahthat is of those interested in endeavoring to have the present duty on lead ore and pig lead maintained main-tained The meeting was very largely attended there being about seventy gentlemen present Governor Gov-ernor EliH Murray president of the temporary organization called the meeting to order when a letter from F B McConnell general agent of the Unida Pacific in this city was read The letter expressed regret at the inability of the writer to attend and give assurance of his sympathy for the movement F W filling Esq of the committee commit-tee appointed to draw up a memorial memor-ial Congress presented the report re-port which was as follows To the Chairman of the meeting held at the Walker House on the 7th insl on the subject of the reduction of the present pres-ent tariff t Your committee appointed at the last meeting to investigate the threatening disadvantage of a reduction in the present pres-ent tariff on leadjan lead ores and other minerals have examined the iutereeta of our mining resources as well as the present pres-ent and future proposed tariff recommended recom-mended by the Congressional committee as far ae the limited time allowed and bez to reoort Tho production of lead bf Utah Territory Terri-tory for the last seven years from the year 1776 to the present time compares with that ot the United Stales as follows I US Production Utah Per cent 18765722O tons 17560 37710 187773125 I 21602 29510 187881301 II 19310 23810 18798500 n 14308 17 JS809OOO 14275 25K 1881120000 II 20443 17 1831 II 30000 23 I Which shows very favorably for this Territory as a leifl producer The meg nitudo of our lead manufacturing interest inter-est shows forcibly wben looking over the foHoving statement of imports and local freight during tho L st eleven months of this year Coke 341910 tons Ohsrcoa ltGlJ10 Spelter 40 I Iron ore 20263K I Limestone k 29400910 sIn s-In all 74317 Tons As far as cun ba aacertainOl tho following fol-lowing list of the old and the proposed new tariffs will show very clearly bow our mining interest will be jeopardized Old Sew Load ore ani dross l c lo Lead in pigS and bars 2o IKc Lead in sheet pipes an 1 scm 2Jic 2Uc Conierore and cement353 27 c Copper reulus bIlk or coarse 4e 3 c Ooppar plate bore ing its 5a 4c Copper manufactured 45pc 35pc The prOiont market values ad valo rum of lead in New York as compared with the propoeed now tariff shows as follows Ttzr Old Now English lead imported 52 4 > < c Lead made of Spanish ores imported GQ 5c The above figures speak for themselves them-selves and malio it unnecessary for your commtteo to point out toe great disadvantage the pew proposed tariff will brine to our mining and commercial interest of the lead producing countries if such a tariff should be enforced Your committee agreeable to your instructions in-structions propose the organization for the protection of our mining interests and beg to submit that such organization ba named the Utah Mine Protective Association Asso-ciation to be represented by an executive execu-tive committee composed nino members mem-bers and of which His Excellency I Governor Eli H Murray is ta be chairman chair-man Your committee also suggest that the projected new organization send such delegation one or two from among the members of tho executive committee to I Washington to represent tho laterals of i our Territory TerritoryF F W BILLING Chairman The following telegrams were i ceired from Washington WASHINGTON Dec 3 32 Hon James Sharp Lead ore and dross ic per pound piss and bars lie i sheets pipe or sheet 2c copper ore and copper cement 2ic on each pound fine copper contained con-tained and regulus black or coarse copper cop-per Sic per pound Sao copper plate bars ingots or pigs 40j manufactured copper 35 per centum ad valor Copy of repot mailed JOHN T CAISS WASHii GTof Dee 9 J32 Murray and Hollislert Lead ore Ic pig bar scrap 1c alight reduction P T VJ1IZnr Prof Holden here stated that thereat the-reat importance of the subject had induced him to prepare an address to Congress setting forth the position posi-tion of Utah in a mining sense He submitted the address for the up royal of the meeting and it was as follows PRO lIOLDEXfi ADDRESS To the Honorable the Senate and the House Representatives The business men of the Territory of Utah respectfully represent that they have been informed of propped reduc tions in the tariff on leal end lead ores on copper and copper ores that all the business of this territory is largely dependant de-pendant for success on the production of these ores and metals and that the success suc-cess heretofore obtained has bsan due to the tanfi on thoiO metals and their ores and that without such tariff the greatest 1 of all the producing interests of this territory terri-tory viz the mining and reduction of base ores would be shut down We therefore mindful of our interests and desirous 40 protect and perpetuate them jointly with kindred inteiests and industries in other states and territories respectfully submit the following Bate ment of principles facts and our petition or the preservation of the present tariff I oh lead lead ores copper and copper ores t John Stuart Mill is no doubt the strongest advocate of free trada among Eng ih writers and yet he was forced to admit and say It is expedient that protection should be given to certain industries in new countries provided the country have good natural resources for successful prosecution of such an industry and the protection be only temporary Certainly ours is a new country and most certainly we have good natural resources re-sources and it is absolutely certain that our industries have prospered most during the years that they havo been protected again foreign competition The doctrine of protection is as old as established government and the doctrine of free trade had no substantial footing foot-ing though discussed as early as 1820 till enunciated by Sir Robert Peel in 1846 Great Britain fostered protection protec-tion till bhe became rich and strong in her manufacturing interests and had virtual control of the markets of the world Then she and her myriad agents celling goods in all countries became strenuous advocates of rte trade Farseeing Far-seeing and entrenched behind their immense im-mense and established manufactories she saw teat no competition could rise and drive her from the markets of the world unless protective tariff should be enacted and borne manufscloriea be thus encouraged and established She was correct in foresight and as in former days in our country now she spares no money or efforts to break down protection to our home industries so as to make a market for her own Today the moat etrenuoin advocates against our protective protec-tive tariffara Bri ish agents orthose interested in-terested in selling foreign products Home industries protected against foreign for-eign laborand foreign manufactories give us home markets and good prices for food and raw material produced on our own soil Such market once established never fails so long as protected by permaneat laws while a foreign market is always changeable Our surplus wheat and cotton finds a market abroad only when that of other countries has been or is likely to be used up Hence it our wool and cotton wore not largely manufactured at home the whole product would no doubt bring not over three fourths of tho prices now received abroad The same principe would apply to lead if we had to seek foreign enamels or bad to compete with foreign lead in our own Protection fosters fos-ters competition among producers nt home perfects methods of production stimulates invent on gives employment 10 multitudes of laborers and limawhile they are producers they become consumers consu-mers not only of home manufactures but of borne raised wheat corn and oth > r agricultural products Great Hritian ia i tho imperial workshop I work-shop old established powerful arrogant arro-gant ana easeless in extending her i dominion of trade She is the owner of nearly all the mines in the barbarous and semibaibarous world controls the labor at low rates at home and in the c countries She has robbed us of our shipping and forces ua to pay tubule to boras monarch of the sea and now she is the grand conspirator m trj ing to break down our protective flalle and let her products free into our country coun-try No army of subjugation would so surely enslave us or so firmly subject us to the imperial dictation of England as to abolish our protective tariff ou metals and metal products and admit the products pro-ducts of lowpriced labor and concan tratod capital of Europe into our own markets it H dangerous to the peace and pros parity of the pountry to alter a system to which capital and labor have adapted themselves and by which years of prosperity pros-perity bavo succeeded To ab lish the protection against foreign goods foreign metals and foreign ores is to paralyze every ev-ery American maustryfor our manufactories manufac-tories giva employment to thousands upon thousands directly and indirectly they give life and enterprise to farms to forests end to the railroads the great carriers of th e world it is this multiplying and diversifying of the departments of homo icdustry bringing the farmer the artisan and the manufacturer into immediate contact with each other andonoblipg them to interchange in-terchange their products without the intervention in-tervention of several nonproducers which is justly regarded as the great end of enlightened and paternal policy With what certainty these principles apply to the Territory of Utah need only to bo stated to be felt and fully comprehended compre-hended That we hare vest mines filled with ore the history of our product for the past seven years fully prove We have produced 22K per cent of all the lead produced the United States With I the high price of coke the long haul to I market necesaittting heavy freights it it certain that not one pound of this lean could have boon mined and sent to market but for the tariff of 2 cents per pound on lead and VA cents on lead ores This Territory has produced from its mines and correlative industries over eighty millions of money since the mines were first opened and given employment employ-ment to thousands of men and made a homo market for all the produce which our farmers had tc spare Utah Idaho Montana Nevada Arizona and Colorado may be said to constitute the great mineral min-eral contra of the continent and by their location their products must be subject to heavy freight charges to tie market The mines are great consumers of iron and steel end use Immense amounts of machinery They are the cause for vast consumption of coal and coke and in Utah much of the coke used is from Pennsylvania Without the tariff not amine a-mine or furnace producing lead ore or bullion could compote with the Spanish uines thpy having cheap labor find wa tcr transportation Tho very life of these great industries is in the tariff There is no merchant no mechanic no owner of hOI e or farm in short na manor man-or woman in an7 branch of business in Utah who is not today richer and whose property is not mode more valuable just in proportion as the mines and raauc lion works of the Territory am prosperous pros-perous This production which baa est bluhe < our iron interests in the Eastern States and made it i possible for them to compels with Old England and to that her products substantially out of the market in this couairy is now the only bop of great lead producing interests of not only Utah but of all toe sountry Strike it J down and mills slall eland with the idle engines and silent hammers farms obal grow to brier and brush houses shall be tenantless stores and shops shall be vacant i furnaces j shall chill with the paralysis of death the press which now voces the progress and prosperity of the land shall be dumb with despair and men with strong arms and willing hands shall stand hungry and idle and half clad children and haggard women and men maddened into fury will rend the I air with curves on the government and I howls revolution Such we know and feel and so WH respectfully pray that the present tariff on lead and copper and all kindred interests remain as it is and as it has been We attach tho following tables as corroborative cor-roborative of our opinions and in support sup-port of tbe request make We should state however in behalf of the copper interests of the territory that they are only in their infancy and have made no substantial record but they have extensive mine and tlat it will be impossible to develop them and erect new works and run them successfully unless they are protected by the tariff as such works have been in the older states The address was received with great favor and unanimously adopted as an expression of the sentiment senti-ment of the meeting on the important import-ant subject under consideration It was also decided to refer it to the committee instructions to have it transmitted to Congress A permanent organization was next determined upon the name to be the Utah Protective Association with an executive committee of nine On motion of Mr Hanauer Governor Gov-ernor Murray as chairman of the meeting was impowered to appoint the committee which he did as follows F WBillings L E Hoi den James Sharp W S McCornick Geo M Scott B C Chambers Major Hill J S Scott and E P Ferry A Zeehandelaar was chosen secretary and J E Dooly treasurer of the association A motion of Mr Dooly that Porfessor L E Holden be the choice of the meeting to reprsent the mining interests of Utah at Washington was generally seconded sec-onded and unanimouslv carried Prof Holden stated that he would accept the trust and perform whatever what-ever duties the position might demand de-mand of him to the best of his ability abil-ity With him it was a matter of love for the welfare of the territory and he would rather give 810000 himself this night than seethe see-the proposed reductinn in the duty on lead carried into effect He would go at his own expense and labor and live at his own expense ex-pense all he asked was the hearty cooperation of the mining men in the Territory that his labors might be the more effective from united sympathy He desired also the support of the whole people of Utah for it was a matter that concerned not alone those engaged in tho mining min-ing industry but all alike as an injury in-jury to the mining interests would be an injury to every other local industry in-dustry Votes of thanks were extended to the secretary of the former meeting to the former committee and to Professor Pro-fessor Holden for his able address Mr Holden moved that the chairman chair-man in his capacity as head of the new organization and also in his official capacity as Governor extend ex-tend to the governors of all lead producing pro-ducing states and territories of the west an invitation to call meetings organize and cooperate with the Utah organization and that they be requested to send their representatives representa-tives and meet Utahs delegate in Washington to discuss and work for the common cause also that the now executive committee be requested re-quested to prepare for this purpose I such letters as it may find proper This was carried Judge Turners motion to open a list for membership prevailed all the members present signing their names Mr Goldberg then moved to have a subcommittee of three appointed from the executive committee to canvass names of such persons who were not present at tha meeting carried A vote of thanks was tendered to Major Erb for the use of his par lors and the meeting adjourned S |