Show COMMENT the montana and utah mine doprr acors have expressed their dis satis faction at the treatment accorded them by the smelter trust and both or ha have e decided to do every thing possible to encourage and help out the independent smelters we believe that if the mine owners in all of the mining states organize for the purpose of fighting lighting for their rights that they will get a square deal from the smelters and railroads the way t to 0 fight the smelter fiust is to sup port p ort the independent indea eident smelters be cause the independent smelter is one thing that the combine fears th a most it t la is constantly exercising its pov po er to squeeze out competition and in many cases cages it has succeeded the success of independent plants must fall back upon the support sul port which they receive from rom ore producers there is much evidence tl tf at ore producers of great influence are feeling the boot heel of the trust and that the trust is rapidly osing losing the confidence of those upon whom it relies most for ore so that it may be expected that the talk of independence will in time cra sta aize in strong organizations that cannot be shaken by threat or chicanery it was with genuine I 1 leasure that we learned of the election of S L padmore of the park city record d as president of the utah press assoria tion mr is a capable news neus aper paper man and under his guidance bhe the association should be able to ac com something that is providing ie is given proper support ba b others who are engaged in newspaper ft ork in n utah in this state there are two classes of men engaged in the bubli cation of weekly newspapers those in n one class depend entirely upon the eady ready print house to edit and pub ish lish their papers which are usually is sud for the sole purpose of receiving and land office patronage which rightfully belongs to some one else while those in n the other class are legitimate r men v who bo gi agne e their read ers as good a newspaper as possible considering the difficulties under which they labor mr be longa longs to the latter class but the utah press association has not dot always been controlled by legitimate news paper men and as a result it has not had the influence that it should have in certain quarters we trust that the legitimate newspaper men of utah will give mr all the assistance possible in p placing lacing the as where it rightfully belongs |