Show THE SMELTER TROUBLES at 15 said that tho smelter strike is ua I g d5ocr that the men art going back to their work at the old riUe3 It Is proper then for the public rcsstp 1 I consider i the matter The first claim In Justification fn trust is that l t while I It I t may jlmit I i in some ciiacs the number I num-ber of omi > loyecs it Insures generous I those ages and permanent places to I employed If the statement of the em pluyccs at Murray is correct It has not had that effect here Tf It Is true that men are working In any caputitj iifoiliUl a smeller In the 1flI5 and the jolson for 5110 per day It IH a shame I No man can live support feed and I I clothe a family decently on such wages It Is I Just MS clear that there is no occa I I slon to crowd men down to such hard I ships The smelter buys KB ores for what Il pleases to give 1he ordinary j miner has no possible appeal from the price offered and It is true that the ordinary miner does not get the amount received for the same class of ores prior to the formation of the trust Into several sev-eral per cent The trust Is making a I r mighty percentage on its real investment invest-ment and true to the avarice which Is innate In most inen and which grows with what it feeds on those In charge take on more and more the thought that the human machines which they employ are like those of Iron and steel and that the same close calculation must be made In a contract foi men as in a contract for coke This being the rule it is continued until the old sympathy f pathy 1 of employer for employee Is suppressed and whether the human I machine can live under the strain or I not becomes a matter of Indifference i But it Is useless to speculate or moralize mor-alize The present I strikers returned peaceably to their work but the trust cannot alwajs expect this and for the reason that It Is not right There may never be any violence but there will not bo economical work There will be accidents and losses and breakages that never would bo If the laborers felt they were receiving Justice That a board of directors In Denver or Kan StS City or some other point can dictate dic-tate the price of labor here and holdover hold-over the laborer the covert threat that lie may take that or starve docs not add to Ihe patience Of men who arc witnesses to what Is going on The heavy mining men here should I bring around the remedy 1 A very splendid smelting plant can he crcctcd for far less l than It Is pretcitded l thai such plants cost There is I no expensive I sive machinery to buy and the work of construction Is simple There arc plenty of skilled workingmcn ready to carry on such work This is a good I time to combine and establish the plant and to SOL It soing There are plenty of ores lo keep It In operation ills Iota mysterious and Intricate business and forthe sake of honest labor alone I TUtd that small miners may receive the value of their product it should be pressed to completion |