Show MINING AND MINING PROFITS Tho Journal of New York r few days since published an article denouncing de-nouncing the Standard OH company for accumulating money altogether too fast when the amount of its capital Is considered Wo reminded it that it was legitimate mining to bore fo l oil and J found to sell the oil that in that respect it was gaining money precisely as tho money was obtained to buy and run the Journal That Ii it was pursuing Illegal methods with the proceeds it was legitimate to attack at-tack those methods but asked It now that could be done without opening the way In tho same law to attack organized labor and a thousand other legitimate Industries In tho country In reply to this the Salt Lake Herald says that by it wo made an attack upon legitimate mining industry l I asks if Messrs Salisbury and Kcarns acquired their wealth by crushing > their competitors In business Of course there was nothing In the article Ito I-to cause or Justify a fool question like I that We distinctly stated that oil I mining was as legitimate as silver I mining and added that if the Journal I could attack the Standard Oil company for any Illegal use It had made of the money acquired by mining that would be proper but not the mining itself To Illustrate further If either Mr I Salisbury or Mr Kearns were to take I n portion of the money honestly acquired ac-quired In mining and with it establish a newspaper for Instance employs employ-s me characterless sneak a bungling bung-ling lago to manage it giving him instructions to hire whatever force I he needed and to go to any expense necessary in order to further by fraud the ambition and the vanity of said millionaire then Mr Salisbury or Mr Kearns would be pursuing precisely such e course as the Salt Lake Herald so bitterly arraigns tho Standard Oil company for pursuing pursu-ing Does our contemporary see the application or feel the point In conclusion con-clusion the Herald says The Tribune editor shows by this performance two facts That his retainer to denounce those things which he formerly approved ap-proved etc and that only symbols the spleen and the gall of tho ancient prostitute who in the morning stands on n street corner inveighing against decent women and waiting for her tinhorn tin-horn gambler to take her to breakfast > even if he growls at the expense |