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Show Till PEOPLE ARE AROUSED. They Are Overwhelmingly Opposed to Letting the Paving to Barber. THE WORKINGMEN WILL MAKE A ROUSING PROTEST. - . t Interests of Utah Labor Are Involved in the Matter. ; SQUIRES AND DOREMUS HAD A SECRET MEETING TODAY. Why Is the City Engineer Holding-Conferences Holding-Conferences With the Barber Agent ? Why Siioold They Have Any Interests in Common Mer- . eaants and. Working-men Are Both. Vitally Concerned, in the iirowth of a Oreat Utah Industry tet ' Them Use Their Influence. Home industry has got the Barber Asphalfr company on the run. Public sentiment is aroused as never before on a matter of thia kind, and unless the indications are very misleading, the people will be gratified by seeing the paving monopoly ignominously beaten when the matter comes before th council tomorrow night. The appeal of The Time3 to the working-men working-men of Salt Lake is bearing fruit today in. the circulation and numerous signing of petitions and in the expression of sentiment on all 6ides. Labor clearly understands what it has at stake in a contest between home industry and an outside corporation that is trying to get control of our streets after it has been onca fairly underbid by local companies. ; WORKISGMM ANT MERCHANTS. Workingmen and merchants have the same interest in the triumph of the home, companies'ia thts instance. The successful tjse of Utah asphalt on the streets of S&ftr Lake means its introduction into Jha Ameri., can market and the rapid building up cf & very important business iu thia territory. It-means nfOi-e labor, and consequently tha I . circulation of more money, and the merchant mer-chant will be benefited as much as the jWorkingman . by this result. Thereftor every merchant in Salt Lake should lend his aid ' as effectively as the workingmen are now doiijg to this campaign, which has far its object the. defeat of the odious contract with the Barber Aspblt company; OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. ' The friends of the Barber crowd hav' restea very meeKiy under tiw charges that have been brought against the great monop- oly. They have, said very little thsmselve and would have been highly gratified if th people and the newspapers had been equally reticent on the subject ;Sch feeble ex, planations as have been put forth in the interest in-terest of the Barber monopoly have hezit promptly and fully answered. For instance, it has been proved that tha home companies can do thia paving faster than the Barber company because they have' more material on hand and can obtain what additions! machinery they need fully soon. This answers the argument that only the immaculate Barber and his precious a, sociates can possibly do this work in tim. The assertion that the Utah asphalt is nofr fit for the purpose is met by the positive assertion as-sertion that it is fit, and by the guarantee o home companies to amply secure the city against loss in any event. . ; , THE MILK IN THE COOOANCT. It is plain to everybody now that General Agent Squires is not wasting his sweetness on the desert air merely to get a single job of paving. It is clear that the monopiuly which he represents has a very deep interest in Keeping uiaa aspnait irom naving a lair trial anywhere on the face of the earth and thereby keeping a new and powerful competitor com-petitor out of the market. That is why the Barber people can afford to spend time and money generously to carry their point, and that is why the workingmen and busines men of Utah are determined that the Barber company shall not succeed if they can prevent pre-vent it. It has been shown that there is no valid objection to letting the work to home companies com-panies and giving Utah material a chance. It has been shown that public sentiment, is overwhelmingly in favor of this course. All the arguments that can be made in favor of the monopoly have been met and silenced. It only remains for the public to continue to make its influence felt and then for tha council to meet. TO WORKINGMEN. In the interests of Utah labor and the de- veiopment oi our resources ihe iimes urges the representatives of the labor unions to publicly take a positive stand on this matter before the council act3 tomorrow night. Every workingman and every merchant mer-chant as well, should promptly recognize what he has at stake and immediately give such an expression to his views as he thinks will do the most good. There is no time to be lost It is a matter that comes home to everybody whose interest is here, and prompt action is demanded. Use your influence ia every possible way to defeat the paving mon-i mon-i opoly and win a victory for Utah, |