Show I I UTAH TilE THE AFE STATE I IU U TAll bas been known for years ars among the tho great and cap capitalists as R a sate anfe state that is is a state where unreasonable tion ll have e not been placed on capital w where re injurious laws las 1110 not so 80 harassed bus that safe wore impossible B a state that would listen to reason ronson The people of Utah are and iid Juno bc been n le ive They favor faor eX justice between man and aud man and aud they desire to apply lind do apply that principle to corporations There has beon no noline line and cry hero against corporations ns as such But inquiry in the cast shows that people have not boon been ghen tim the credit of being reasonably conser conservative The narriman into have hae kno known some somo peaceful moments in the state due to the of its people have not understood the reason ru In their Parlo Parley L William illiam general counsel in for the Oregon Short Line Lin laM has been boen keeping the state conservative It was the Williams hand and Italian was as regarded in in Ne New York as tho interest for bus sanity in Utah Iu Iii the tho minds mind eye of the Harriman ino in Ne Now York Williams has stood like a rock sad gloomy and peculiar pu pushing ling back with both hands tile tho rising tide tido of radicalism in Utah Like Mother Paz PUI ington who swept back the tho SOA with ith a broom laM has waved lii hand and the storm of Utah discontent has hils calmed the winds late iw latea n a soft like the tho summer zephyr and public sentiment I bt crept growling into its cavern for two to years more Williams ma la is in the et now DOW explaining to his employers the tho Utah statutes on the tho subject of truet in general amI cool coal trusts in particular ng before them ad a lt etor of f Utah while the managing of the grOAt sits iu in admiration for the great Ulan nian who vho carri carries in his vent vat pocket the destinies of n a sovereign state Parley L Williams is the one great knocker in He hAS wl walked ked up and down dom Main street saying unkind things of leading men itten he ie has hall for enforcement of law Jaw until there thero waa some somo chance of law being enforced against the tho coal trust and then lie hc qUit All lie has ever boost been able to do is talk because no legislator front from the moo benighted county in the tho state if there thore be an any such who Would be so short on in information or so 80 larking lacking in judgment thAt lie he go to Williams lm and have him either the one or tIle other or who would Williams WilliaM to ap AI preach him hahn on the subject The general counsel of the Oregon Short Line is il valuable to set afloat stories each two years before the tho biennial session of tile the legislature about the Clue new hues the they are arc going to build anti And that ly legislation would prevent it The next nett would do well to exact bonds bond that some of these new lines stori stories are true lau kM been telling them for years and still there are no new lines will be new railrOAd extensions in Utah whenever prospective tonnage justifies it And the sort of legislation this thi state may have haTo on OIL its statute boob wilt will make no DO difference Oregon with its railroad commission ion ha dra t c railroad 1 laws is getting practically cent of the last Harriman bond expended within its borders and Utah ill is getting nothing Secretary of State deserves the pl plaudits of the tho public for setting the of the law in motion ag against in t the coal tru trust t tand and has indicated thAt the Denver Rio Hio GrAnde railroad l of tile the Fuel company and the Harriman owner of tim dm Union PA PAcific Coal company are the real coal trust the maUr will preb probably bl be delay delayed in ill the courts until the coming legislature lisa adjourned W Word comes front from all over oer the tho state stat that most of the members of th the believe there should hould be sit all investigation of the coal situation b by a joint committee committe of the two ho hous houses committee could summon es compel their attendance anti get at t tito tho truth And when that Ot truth i lI uncovered it wil B Ie that Wat the Harriman interests and the Gould interests ts b oln c tIle the coal in Uth J They con control control the prIces prices Y chit so 80 manipulate their ear thAt p nd con coin mU bo goo good or they will be unable to g got t their coal COllI hauled to market It is not so long ago that nn an independent co coal l dealer had A large con contrAct contract trAct for coat coal to be delivered within a certain period Ho He secured hi his cars from the Rio Uio Grande d loaded his bis coal and billed it to the firm for it was intended The TItO railroad set Iii his ears cars on A side track And left them there until 1110 time limit expired and nd promptly sold Hl the customer tIle the coal coI Then the tho cars were released Anti and the te dealer deler was 81 left high aud dr with a trainload of coal COllI on OH his Jis hands And no DO market for i it A itA committee would find ind many things of interest And that would throw light upon the situation on TIle Tue members of the legislature Are aid laitI to b be in favor faor of it It would be a great help to tle people in getting justice Talk about new railroad lil lines in Utah t Should not enter into mAtter will witt get more railroads when there it is tonnage to toI lit hf or where tonnage can n be developed And not before Nor will willI of the state tte hason on its itO books boob have anything to do with vitI it itI |