| Show UT SMELTER TER TRU TRUST r rF T V ERY RY MINER IN UTAH should read r ad the communication Wj a EVERY F tion o this page from a mining man who knows he hc writes Pie lIC shows that the ore producers of Utah could build i d smelter pay 12 2 per per cent ent dividends d ds on the actual cost of their plant and in ir addition saye sae sa a year in smelting charges taking the present output as a basis of calculation c l Putting u ting tin itin anotHer form miners of Utah today arc are paying paving the smelter r trust rust i ide a dividend on op 1 their investment because the trust has h s an absolute monopoly of the business 4 As s a single instance the smelter charge on sili ious ores here is 15 from 1150 to 14 or more Practical smelter men who are familiar with the trusts plants pla ts say there is a large profit in the treatment of pf those ores oreS at t 8 The Tl e difference represents the thep profit p of extortion unrestrained by any fear of the law The work of this trust is seen in every direction Prospecting and development dc work were possible Tor r the th poorest poor st miner in inthe inthe inthe the state stat provided he could get a a grubstake and one of the best discovery iS campaigns in in western vestern history was as under tinder way when then the thet trust t st seized the thc What That was the result The prospector pro who wits was fortunate enough to find a promising claim found also that the smelter trust fixed treatment charges harges so high that he could not afford to work his ground unless it happened to t hold a most extraordinary vein Since the completion l of the trust prospect i Wg g has fallen off the smaller mines have gradually been absorbed by the capitalists who alone could force the trust to do justice and the state has lost the advantage of the army pf prospectors who vho ll ne can cati ari K the mining Industry J Jon on a progressive foot footing ing big In return what has the smelter trust done do e for the state Has Hasit it contributed contrib t d greatly gre to the progress of the commonwealth Has Hasit Hast t it stimulated any of any sort Has it t enlarged the field of labor and given employment employ ent to t more men than an were em employed employed under independent smelters Has Hs H s it uplifted the moral tone tP e of the business or helped lighten tI the birden of taxation There There is scarcely any auf an need of f an answer so plain is s the in record of the trust It has ha thrown old employees emp out of Ork rk and made it impossible Tor them to tt get work e elsewhere s here in inthe inC inthe C the business they had spent a lifetime to learn c It ground grou d its poorest paid laborers until they rose rosC io in jn revolt against wages tI 1 could not sustain life decently It has s robbed the as asin in p as it has oppressed the prospector It has laughed at atthe atthe atthe the thought of restraint by law because it knew a Republican ican president pr and a Republican governor governor would never make even a feint of prosecution although both the president and governor g enior had hild ample legal authority to drive it out of business ss as a ac a com commercial c m mercial outlaw No wonder that the victims ViCt of f the t do doubt bt the sincerity of those who tho talk taU about bout good trusts tn ts N Q Ond lr t the Republicans R of Utah dodge the discussion of monopoly mcm protected by them and paying for oi that th t protection by campaign contributions contributions contributions i s |
