| Show ON BIMETALLISM WHY SHOULD TfOT UTAH TAKP THE LEAD Irapprtnncc of Assisting in tl e Work of Educating the Voter of the United StatesLetter From Those j G Merrill TQ the Editor of The Herald Permit me a few words as to the im pprtance of Utahs assisting in the work 5 of the education of the voters of the United States upon the subject of bimetallism It is true that her people peo-ple are poor in money and her mining interests suffering very greatly this is owing more to the low price of silver than any other cause as her productive produc-tive mines arc mostly silver If by this process of thorough and immediate education the next president and Congress Con-gress can be elected pledged to the full restoration of silver to its place as money as it was up to 1873 which it will do or at least If it cannot be done in this way it cannot be done Mall M-all What would be the effect upon Utah whose prosperity to a very large extent ex-tent depends upon the success of its mining Industry if the silver producers could sell their silver for 129 per ounce instead of CQ cents Its mining Interests Inter-ests would employ four times as many laborers quadrupling the home demand for the products of the farms and vastly increasing the business of her merchants and manufacturers And what shall we say of the mines themselves them-selves WQuid it not increase by many thousand dollars per month the profits pro-fits of each of these magnificent properties prop-erties the Ontario Daly Silver King Anchor CentennlalEureka Eureka Hill Keystone BulllonJBeck Mammoth Mam-moth Horn Silver and Daly West and largely add to the value of such mines as the Sampson Old Jordan and Galena Alliance Crescent Emma Em-ma Last Chance Bogan Walker Bros Park City mine the Lead mine and many pther and double the income of her smelters and vastly increase the business of her banks and every industry in-dustry of her territory Could not these first named mines well afford to contribute 1000 each to put Utah In the lead in starting this work and they with the other mines smelters banks business men and all citizens of her territory contribute a lesser amount each month with the citizens of her sister states and territories to keep this work moving on If by means of her failure to support sup-port this work It should fail of accomplishment ac-complishment would she not have occasion oc-casion ever to regret itS it-S THOMAS G MERRILL |
