Show unfavorable LAWS every man mail of wealth has his enemies as has every successful man in any line of business no matter how square lie he has been nor how honestly lie he has made his money or attained his success he has many detractors men and women whom he has never even seen much less wronged and all of them will do him an injury when the opportunity is presented if it can be done with safety to themselves the reason can be summed up in one word jealousy it is the jealousy and the dislike of the unsuccessful for the successful mining is an industry the very nature of which causes jealousy among certain kinds of people you have met the knockers and so have we hundreds of them one direct result of this is the detrimental legislation which always crops up when nahl n a period of prosperity such as the present time is enjoyed by mining people forget the long years of struggling against odds which most companies must go through and the thousands of dollars expended without an iota of assistance from state or nation before the humble prospect becomes a mine and just as soon as it begins to pay they are ready to help pass freak laws by which its owners will be deprived of the just reward of their persistence and sacrifices any such legislation finds thousands of unthinking partisans the only way to combat it is for the mining interests to stand together and vote as a unit against any such laws and to work strenuously against their enactment if the railroads machinery houses and other interests interest in 1 the west the prosperity of which is directly direct y due to mining will stand by the industry and see that their employed emp loyes do the same any such legislation will be defeated and the great industries of the state will remain prosperous and continue their advance do not trust your mining friends to beat such legislation they cannot do it alone work against it and vote against it yourself |