| Show ALL DUE TO MINING The bullion from Utah mines whose stockholders live in Denver and San Francisco Fran-cisco is sent to New York The pav for this bullion is sent to the mine owners in Denver and San Francisco This money is spent thero in building fine residences or business blocks The rich humor in the following is thus apparent Now what do we exchange except bullion for the goods the Coop sells We do not send away grain rather we import It x The only things we export are a few potatoes a good deal of wool a few hide some sheep and some beer cattle That is all we export except the bullion from the mines Tribune This may be true but the whole pay for everything we export except bullion comes right back here while the pay for the bullion bul-lion goes to enrich San Francisco Denver and other places Whatever else may be the pay for our imports one thing is certain viz that bullion bul-lion is not the pay for them since this is the only article exported from Utah for which the pay does not return here Only enough returns to pay the wages of the miners and to keep the mines going the rest goes to the stockholders east and west of this territory Now since the miners number 6 per cent of the working population it is abundantly clear that the portion of their wages which they expend forpotatoes and beef does not support the other 94 per cent of the population popu-lation for the same reason as the darkey would say that the tail doesnt wag the dog The reader is invited to notice this argument also A man works his little tract of land What he sells represents his profits the rest he simply eats up So far as he is concerned with the public what he sells represents what his farm amounts to in the community Hold on boy what are you talking about If a farmer employs a dozen hands rears a large family of his own keeps a number of horses cows pigs poultry etc isnt his farm worth anything to the territory terri-tory Doesnt it represent precisely its value of the accumulated wealth Does it not enhance the value of the property all around it Its value is all gain to the man who develops such a farm from the desert even if ne sellsonly a few articles Really what he sells generally does not amount to what he buys in the way of clothing a little furniture and a few groceries like sugar and salt alcohol and tea Good enough The farmers sell very little lit-tle at best is the argument of our rattled contemporary They sell to the other 5S per cent of the people of Utah besides to the mining 6 per cent and also export a good deal Now the contention of our opponent op-ponent is that it is the amount they sell to the mining 6 ner cent that does nverrthino w for them and the amount they sell to the 5S per cent and the amount they export combined amount to nothing If they sold houses or furniture of which one man may buy almost any amount the allegation of our contemporary would still be a possibility possi-bility but the farmers sell food of which ono man consumes as much as another The allegation that the prosperity of farmers farm-ers IS all due to mining is simpl an impossibility im-possibility It is a pity too that the following follow-ing childish fancy is so indefinite The life of the whole business rests in mining min-ing that is the life of the merchants who sell the goods that they buyin tho east which enables en-ables them to hire clerKS and pay rents and which makes a city of 50000 people when except ex-cept for mining there would be no business for more than three or four merchants in town I That is the reason we suppose that Chicago Chi-cago St Louis New York and other cities have businessbecause no they have no bullion to export Utah on the other hand exports bullion and San Francisco gets the pay for it therefore says our closereason ing contemporary the prosperity of Utah all rests in mining Mining would be n great thing for this territory if its profits were only invested I here But it can never be shown that the i I I wages paid to the miners cause this tern 1 tory to boom That the portion of the wages of 6 per cent of tho population that is spent for home produce is the sole support sup-port of the other per cent Is just a littlo too thin One point deserves notice the Tribune dares pot let Its readerssee the facts we w present It is paid by San Francisco mine i owners to deceive its Utah readers on this question We take only a general interest in proving that the mines of Utah are worth more to California than to this territory while we wish it were otherwise At the same time we are careful In every instance to quote enough from the Tribune to fairly represent its position That paper dares not do this but seeks to hide the truth from its readers |
