Show LEAD AND MR KING When the last Legislature was In session ses-sion Mr W F James president of the Ore Producers association addressed ci letter to each of the Senatorial candidates candi-dates on the subject of protection for f lead Messrs Cannon and Powers answered an-swered frankly and promptly both promising if I elected to stand by lead and to do their best toxkcep it protected Mr lIcCuno also answered and though ho hedged a little his letter was in the main satisfactory But Judge King evaded the request and declined to answer an-swer at all It Is a serious matter For years tho custom wns under the old ruling of the Secretary of the Treasury to admit lead ores free where the value of tho precious metals exceeded that of the lead Later the ores were convoyed con-voyed In that Is the front car had rich silver ore and the tralnload was accepted ac-cepted aa the same kind Ten there was a mighty struggle to havo lead ores placed on the free list I on thc assertion that with the heavy lead of those ores tho dry silver ores of I this country could be reduced cheaper by i smelting them with these ores that I were heavy in lead than In any other way This almost carried until Mr James got Mr Myers of the smelter combine to testify that lead ores must carry 20 per cent of lead in order to bo I I economically smelted and he then showed from the figures In the Bureau of Statistics that thc Mexican ores only averaged a little less than 13 per cent It was a steady fight for ten years Then lie Dlnglcy bill placed a tariff of 520 per ton on lead ores Thia the lead I trust is hungering to have removed and that is natural for they want the prlvl j lego of importing ores and of manipu I lating prices as they please Recently I it has become plain that the smelting trust desires the same thing and this 13 natural for they Import vast amounts of ores and naturally they do not like to pay tho ll cents per pound on all lead thus Imported People can form a little Idea of the magnitude of the business I busi-ness by 1 scanning the following nirnrpr I copied from data supplied by the Bureau of Statistics For the seven months ending January 31 1S99 there was Imported into this country 117000303 pounds of lead and for a corresponding period up to January Janu-ary 31 1900 there was imported 9lf55S 201 pounds For the same period up to January 31 1U9 there was exported SS155891 pounds and for the same period pe-riod up to January Slat of this year the exports amounted to 78005154 pounds Oh January 1 1S99 the stock in the warehouses of tho country amounted to 1SID1195 poundsand on Februajy 1st of this year thIS slock was 3oM52SSO pounds The exports of domestic lead for the period of seven months ending I February 1 1900 were 301201 pounds and for the nine months ending Sep tern bal 30 1899 there was Imported 114423 OC7 pounds and during the same time the exports were 117339291 pounds and tho previous year tho figures were nearly the same It will bo seen by the above that the United States does not produce aa much as It consumes That is the exports are considerablyless than the Imports even with tho domestic manufactured lead added to the export A study ot tho lead quotations in New I York and London will show dally that except for our tariff they would be the I same that is the New York quotation Is the London quotation wiLl the tariff added It will be seen how important It Is that Utahs Representative In Washing ton should be a man who believes in the I tariff and an active man to look after UlahB tariff Interests I I |