Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-10 | Page 10 | Minerals Relief Bill is Held Boon

MINERALS RELIEF " BILL ISJLQ B00I Mining Authority Says the Government Has Done Much for West. j Nothing- that the government has done in recent months will produce bo kindly a feeling among the miners of the west an the passage by congress of the relief re-lief bill for the benefit of the producers of chrome, manganese, tungsten and other war minerals, says the Mining and Scientific Scien-tific Press. The effect will reach far be-voml be-voml those Immediately concerned In differing' diff-ering' these emergency minerals, for what lias heen done to reimbur.se the producers of chrome, manganese and tunstn is appreciated by the whole brotherhood of prospectors and miners. The I Iendt:rsun bill, which finally became a greatly-modified amendment to the Dent-Chamberlain Informal war contract bill. Is a democratic demo-cratic measure, keeping faith with the host of small operators Instead of being only tor the benefit of the rich. It so happens that the men who responded re-sponded to the call of the government for a supply of those essential minerals at a time of crisis were chiefly hardworking hard-working miners, men used to handling the pick and shovel in earning their daily bread; they were not of the alien class that so often disturbs the peace; they were real Americans, of the good old sort that made the nation strong in the pioneer pio-neer days. It would have been a shame, a dis-KTMce, dis-KTMce, a grave political mistake, to have denied honorable recognition of the right of such patriots to reimbursement of the losses they sustained, seeing tint t the government was planning to repay the contractors who had done no more, and who. In most cases, had risked far less, Tt is amazing that men could be found who would oppose settlement of such just obligations, but In fplte of such antagonism an-tagonism the government's good faith has been sustained , by the action of both branches of the national legislature.