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Show lead and will quickly legislate for it if the West retreats from its ground. If Utah and other western communities pronounce in favor of free lead, then free lead is certain. How would it affect af-fect U9? Take Bingham, for instance. That camp is producing a concentrated ore containing an average of about $11 in silver and gold and about $16.80 lead in value to the ton, making an ore worth about $28 a ton. There is 1 cents per pound duty on lead in lead ores, and Mexico ships large quantities into this country and pays the duty. - Now, if Mexico can pay $30 a ton duty on lead and still sell in competition competi-tion with us to some extent, what would be the price of Bingham lead if the duty were removed? Mr. James says that as these ores contain 85 per cent of lead the removal of the duty would mean an average reduction of 56 per ton. and that would close every mine in Bingham. How do the mining men of Bingham like the prospect? There would be but one other thing to be done beside closing the mines. This would be to reduce Utah wages to the Mexican level. Do the miners of Utah want to take chances on a policy that offers, on one hand, the closing of the mines, and, on the other, the reduction reduc-tion of their wages? In either case they would be ground to powder by this policy of the Democratic party. Wo will present further facts from Mr. James' pamphlet tomorrow. In the meantime, we hope that pamphlet will be extensively circulated, because the great mining interests of this territory terri-tory and its army of producers are seriously seri-ously menaced with disaster. Yote for Fkank J. Cannon. Send this able man to congress to tell the American people that Utah wants the duty on lead maintained in the interest of tho prosperity of every man, woman and child who lives here. When great interests of this kind are at 6take don't wasto a vote on Allen. Cast it for the Republican candidate and help make our prosperity Bure. DON'T FORGET UTAH LEAD. Do the mining men of Utah realize what a tremendous interest they have at stake in the defeat of the Democratic party and the triumph of the Republican Republi-can candidate for congress one week from today ? The Democracy, if triumphant, tri-umphant, will makoUtah lead the swift and certain object of its sacrifice to the doctrine of free raw material. Hon. William F. James, now chairman chair-man of the Republican county committee, commit-tee, is widely recognized as one of the best and most intelligent friends of our mining interests. He has studied the question especially from the standpoint of national legislation. He has just issued a pamphlet to our mining men which clearly brings out the great danger dan-ger menat-ed by free lead. We quote a few statements from many of great importance. "Who is afraid of free lead!" he asks, and answers: "The capitalist engaged in mining, the mine owner, the mine operator, the miner, the laborer and teamster who earn their bread by daily toil." And for these reasons: The East is solidly ia favor of freo |