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Show APPKAL rOK Alii. At last evening's silver meeting Mr K Evvi.ANiis, who is a member of the national silver committee, in ado an appeal for financial assistance for that committee which should arrest the attention of every mining man in Utah. It was shown that the total amount of money raised for the committee com-mittee had only been Sis.ono. Tim figure is so small that it should make the reader ashamed. Wo imagine that tho giddbugs would put ii. ore than that into a single elTort. Mr. N'kwi.ani'S told something of the work beinr; done by the committee. It is bury distributing literature throughout through-out tho country nnd maintaining the agitation. The greatest good has como from thu work so far done. Public interest in-terest ha been aroused to a high pitch, this being shown by a constantly increasing in-creasing demand for literature which the committee, because of tho tack of funds, cannot supply. On the oilier hand tho monomctalists aro lloodiir; tho country v. ith printed matter and have the gold bug press in full swing for them. They are starting papers in dill'eront sections to combat free coinage. coin-age. F.very possible effort is being put forth to cheek tfie growing sentimeut in favor of silver, and the silver commit tee linds its hands tied becauso those who are most vitally interested do not como forward with necessary contributions. The work is kept up after a fashion from the pockets at members of the committed, and through the zeal principally princi-pally of the eastern meiober.s. Mit. Nkwi.axus held that the mine owners ought to meet this demand for funds, and his contention is just. Our i mining men canuot afford lo permit I that work to lay. It is a disgrace to I them thst they should have to bo op- j pealed to, for they should maintain an j organization to keep that committee supplied with necessary funds for j legitimate; use in tho work of education and sgitatioti. As the dashing young champion so wed said, the poor fanners whose lifo blood has been s.pteze.l out by the gold conspiracy, should not be expected to furnish tho funds needed. That branch of the work belongs to the owners of the mines of the country, aud it is a duty that 1 t.iey cannot honorably shirk, j 'i hen it is to the financial interest of j the mining nibn lo continue the n orV i Through '.he agitation maintained by I the silver committee the legislation of last year was brought about. That ! legislation raised the pr.oe of silver, j How it s fleets the producers of silver is sliow.i by a statement recently made to i the writer of tiis bv one who ktioivs the effect tlmt the advanced price of i siiver had increased the prol.is of the Ontario mine something more than , SJoo.Ood. Wo do not wish to single out I i any particular eoncer ., but we cer- la. nly think that that company could ! aiToni to give ten per cent of its in- creased profits to tho cause of silver j j education. Yes, thu Ontario company j I could well afford lo give $.:0.000 to this j woik; and the Huiiion-Beek, tho Cen-I Cen-I teno'iil-K.ireka and many otlior miues I could atlord to make contributions ! proportionately as large. Utah ought to piace $i00,000 in the hands of that committee without any appeal from I any source. |