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Show would indirectly affect almost every man and woman in this territory. Because these facts are Touched for by Buch Democrats as It. C. Chambers in Utah, ex-Governor Grant in Colorado Colo-rado and ex-Governor IIauseb in Montana. Mon-tana. In the presence of such momentous issues as this, how can any sane man think of throwing away his vote on C. E. ATxen, and thereby assisting J. L. Kawlins to go to congress to help bring about disaster to our industries? The Liberal motto is ''country before party." The part of the country they live in is Utah. In Heaven's name, let us ask, why they should not put the interests in-terests of Utah before the interests of tho Liberal party. This is a bread and butter campaign for every man, woman and child in this territory, and the bread of every one of them is buttered on the Republican side. They should make no mistake about that. FREE LADMEANS DEATH. lion. William F. James, chairniau ll the Republican county committee, lays: "Remove the lead tai-ilf and Ihere will be no railroads constructed lo Peep Creek, or anywhere else in tLis mining section, and prosperity in Utah will receive its death blow." Why does this well-known man, who has studied the lead question through and through, and who has tho conQ- j denes of all the mining men ia Utah, make this solemn statement? Because the present duty of $30 a ton equalizes the oompatition between the lead of Utah and the lead of Mexico. Because under free lead Mexico would have the benelit of $30 a ton in competition compe-tition with us, and that would mean a reduction of t per cent in the value of the products of Bingham camp, for lastance. Because this st.tta of things would certainly close our great mines, or compel com-pel their owners to pay the same starvation star-vation wages that are paid to peons in Mexico. Because In every other country but this miners receive wages which free American labor would never accept, and free lead would force us into competition com-petition with them. Because disaster to the lead industry J |