Show A AI PEAL I Conditions of Smelter Men Set Forth Perth By One of Them Murray Utah April 11 IL To the Editor of o The Herald I have noted n ted in The Herald the fair fairand fairand and impartial statements of the causes cau s which led to the fhe unorganized uno ed strike of employees of the Germania smelter I appeal to the readers of The Herald and to all honest men who vino are not prejudiced or corrupted ted by this trust which is eating the very vitala vitals of our state to come comedown down and examine our condition for themselves I know many runny who have never neer felt the pinch of poverty and sickness sick whose whom compas compassion compassion compassion sion is not open to the sufferings of their fellow men man who have a stipulated stipulated stipulated income whose homes are com coin comfortable comfortable who have all aU the necessaries and many man of the luxuries of liCe IKe can cannot cannot cannot not appreciate our condition We are told there Is prosperity in Utah Where Is it Republican orators told u us a afew afew afew few weeks w ago that the whole nation was prosperous and wrapping the flag of our country countr around them ut uttered toTed t red a lot Jot of stale platitudes containing not one scintilla of truth Mr Editor there may IDa be prosperity with the tha trusts Mr rr Jones may be prosperous and those who like him compel the mine owners to sell to them their ores for lose less 1 than ever und and com corn compel compel pel their then employees to work fo wages that will If it continued moke mcke anarchists of every man in their employ E These The men who compel us ua to work for the wages ages we now do scoff off at our ur misfortunes Mr Tucker treats tra ts us as S though we were menials serfs and he hethe hethe hethe the despot not like lilee a citizen of this once free republic These men who are piling up mil millions millions millions lions made by the dripping sweat of their employees laugh and mock a at atour atour our poverty and tell teU us that we are earning too much money now One dollar and forty cents per day da for fora a man wife and often sec s or ven saven children 42 per month for good hard hardworking hardworkIng hardworking working honest hon upright Christians in inthis inthis inthis this lan land and J of liberty Think of it sir dollars per month thrown thron a ayou at you as a bone is thrown at a 2 dog d then be compelled to cash It at the too store stort owned by these same sune men who compel compe you to purchase x their goods at an ex ox exorbitant rate Think of this sir Can any man tuna with a family live on this pittance x and rear honest virtuous children My M neighbor gets per day Last month he worked twenty seven saven days and antl received but butof o othis of this he ho paid l 7 rent leaving 33 to purchase coal coal oil clothing ng shoes I and food for himself wife ife and five dren 15 cents a day each to clothe othe shoe and feed his hia loved laved ones And this is but a sample of or the conditions ex ox existing existing in Murray today toda You wonder other people wonder a athe at atthe t the great gr t unrest among the employed employee as aa with the array army a of unemployed une Do you ou wonder that these money monsters are demanding a great standing army that our mouths may be silenced b bd by death d th it if we murmur Do the honest hones people not understand that men be become become be become come d te under these the continued wrongs Do you wonder our loved lovec ones in order that they the may be decent decently ly by l clad often go down to bell hell and our boys become vagabonds Our voices are sIlenced nc but sir the time tim will come when we must be heard heam The press presa may be corrupted and de great editors who were we once with the people may prostrate them themselves themselVes themselves selves before the gods of gold and seek to excuse themselves by stale platitudes platitudes tudes about new 00 conditions they amy maj ma trample in the mire of ed party pOlitics politic that divine divIno instrument the tion of ot Independence and say the con constitution constitution constitution is i obsolete they may even excuse imperialism and thus create a plutocracy or aristocracy in this re republic republic republic public they may secure continued continue power by sending men mea through this tate stata who debauched by office pros prostitute prostitute their manhood and amid stifle their consciences they may as aa in the last campaign camp wrap the flag around them and blind the tha people to their own In and thus attract their Atten tion tien to things other than the present they the may amy preach 1 patriotism and tice imperialism im but the people are beginning to understand and when fully arouses to the nger daxer d that con ci fronts them and this republic they will sweep from tram place and sad power these commercial cormorants who goi gorge je themselves with wealth they do not notI I j create and who do not net hesitate to I trample upon every inherent right of c the people The Th roice oIce of the people pe not yet et strangled they must inset be bethe b hea the er of ot distress o of hunger hung r f jr jf oved dependent yet helpless help cn tr trout s crr 11 out to us sir and we too cry cr r out flut at Woe to the robbers robben who gather 3 n fields where they never hae MY ST SW s Who have stolen the Jewel from iu 11 and to Mammon a th L r rC c C |