| Show l ARTFUL DODGING Editor Tribune On tho freolcail question I ques-tion under tho Wilson tariff Mr Thomas Fitch said It throw out of employment In Utah 110 n nor men and thoso dependent depend-ent upon them Rawllns said last night it did not affect n single mining man In Utah and furthermore that there was 0 men employed in lead mines In Utah Ho also stilted that leap thun GOO men are now employed In all mines 1 m Utah Can you elvo us the facts in tho mailer Had it not been that tho Democrats locked the doors Rawllns would have had nothing noth-ing but benches to talk to Dunbar came In and told thf people that they got Just I as much for their calves undar Cleveland I as under JIoKlnlcy upon which tho farmers and stockmen upn cnt laughed outright Dunbnr also said that the Republicans Re-publicans should havo passed tho trust constitutional amendment regardless of tho Democrats as tho Republicans were in time majority and deceived the people as It takes a twothirds majority to amend the Constitution REPUBLICAN Logan Nov 2 1DOO There is not much to say to the foregoing fore-going We think Mr Fitch was entirely en-tirely right The Ontario the Daly West and several other mines in Park City were closed down and prospectIng prospect-Ing practically ceased Many mines were closed down In Blngham and the rest were working men on reduced pay Ophir was practically dead In Tlntlc many of the mines were closed down Indeed more than 2000 miners left the State to get employment elsewhere else-where If possible As to the number of men employed In the mines and mills and smelters we have I no present means of Indicating the real number but we know that Mr Rawllnss statement state-ment was outrageous in the meaning that he intended to convey to his audience au-dience The gold silver lead and copper cop-per product of Utah last year was 51262551003 The Idea that 5000 men produced that amount Is absolutely I ridiculous I would be exactly like saying that a farmer produced 3000 bushels of wheat 2000 bushels of oats 1000 bushels of barley 100 hogs kept a dairy of 100 cows sold 100 tons of potatoes po-tatoes and 500 tons of beets to n sugar factory and claiming that that was all one mans work When 12000000 and more money Is produced from the mines it means not only a tremendous array of metal miners but coal miners machinists timber men and all the I necessary accompaniments which In the aggregate make mining the leading lead-ing the controlling Industry of the State I seems too that when Mr Kawllns speaks of 5000 miners he means men who work and has no reference ref-erence whatever to their families The difference between the present and when the Wilson law was In effect can be seen by thc transportation of the railroads of this State At least three loaded trains are running now where only one ran before And no man ever makes a statement of the kind made by Mr Rawllns who Is not attempting at-tempting to deceive his hearers As for Mr Dunbars statement the correspondent gives the proper answer an-swer when ho says The audience Jest laughed As for the Constitutional amendment that Is characteristic of the polite and affable David But think of a Democrat making an argument argu-ment for his candidate on the ground that the reason there was any complaint com-plaint of Democrats in Congress was because Republicans did not do their duty The vote was lAS Republicans in favor of the amendment and 130 Democrats Dem-ocrats against it So the proposed amendment failed lacking the two thirds vote that Is required And right here it Is proper to say a word about that trust business busi-ness which the Democrats arc making their howl upon Not many know lhat Congress cannot make at present any law against trusts to apply to anything any-thing within a State I has to be where the operations of a trust extend over two or more States That IH all al that there l any national question about Tho Constitutional amendment was to make It possible for the United States to proceed against trusts anywhere any-where and everywhere In the United States and the Democrats almost solidly sol-idly voted against II and one reason which Mr King gave for his vote was that the amendment would interfere directly rectly with Ihe natural sovereignty or I the States though the proposed amendment amend-ment Itself expressly reserved to each State all its powers in this respect In only one Stale so far us we know has there been any serious seri-ous attempt to Interfere with the trusts and In that State with only I one trust that is Texas and It pro ceeded against the Standard Oil company com-pany for bringing oil in there and the reason was because Texas Is producing pro-ducing n good deal of oil of Its own the oil wells arc owned by some or the foremost Democratic politicians and 1 the effect of the proceedings against the Standard Oil was to compel tho people of Texas to purchase rellncd oil from the home producers at a greatly rcal = Increased cost over what the Standard Oil was laying down Us product In I that State There nOVel on time earth was C bigger fraud than the attempt of the Democratic Democrtc party to make cap ital out of trusts when Its record Is I covered all over with shame In that case Eight yearn ago they were Just I as fierce in their platform In denounc I ring trusts as they arc thin year that I so soon as they attained power1 their I AttorneyGeneral pointed out that tho llnw t which the Republican party had l I passed against trusts t could not he en = l forced because It Interfered with the lift id < i4 t < f y y r oldfashioned States rights doctrine of I the Democratic party Then when the Republicans attempted to pass n constitutional con-stitutional amendment which would remove re-move that difficulty almost every Democratic member of Congress oled Jead against it knowing I that it required a twothirds vole to pass any measure of that kind And hence no the proposlr tlon stands the only law on the Federal Fed-eral statute books against trusts was placed there by Republicans and Its enforcement was made Impossible by the Democracy |
