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Show WHAT IT MEANS. Is there a lead miner in Utah who has a thousand thou-sand tons of lead in sight, who does not think what he would do were he to vote for Parker and Davis? He would vote first to cut down his visa-ble visa-ble assets $20,000, for that is what the tariff would give him. But we will suppose his ore assays 20 per cent per ton in lead. In that case, allowing nothing for loss in smelting, it would require five tons of his ore to make a ton of lead Now suppose sup-pose that the best he can do, after paying for mining, min-ing, hauling, smelting, etc., is to save $6.00 per ton net. He would be doing pretty well to do that. Of course with the tariff removed he could only just about keep even and would have to quit work. His mine today with $20,000 net in sight and with the prospects that he could reasonably reason-ably expect twice as much more would be worth at least $50,000. But with that tariff lemoved it would not be worth 30 cents. So that really when he votes for Parker and Davis he votes to make himself a pauper, and by the same act, so far as his vote is concerned, votes himself out of a job. The only conclusion that can be reached is that only a gold or diamond miner can afford to vote the Democratic ticket But this miner's wrong to himself is not all. To work his mine he probably gives employment to ton men. They may have little families, say a wife and baby each. He pays them $3 each per day, and by doing so makes thirty people comfortable. When he votes for Parker he not only vdtes to make himself a pauper, out of a jflU, Utlt US votes to hXve ten good men Wesidis hfmseff los their jobs' he vojes to make ten mothers take on a look of dospair as they bend over their babies and think that the right arm of their support has been broken, because the world Is filled with Idiots. But It does not stop there. If this one miner can no longer ship ore, other miners are in the" sam fi, and ore shipments cease; that means that a train Is laid off, that means that an engineer, .fireman, brakeman and conductor lose their jobs Thre are four men more, four babies more and four more sorrowing mothers who go to bed at night wondering what "will become of their babied. It goes farther still. With so many trains laid off, half the workers in the machine shops of the railroad rail-road company are discharged and there are more children and more desolate-hearted motners. Thgn, too, the mdn who make picks, hammers and drills and powder and hoisting engines and pumps and steel rails in the eastern states, because be-cause of a falling off in orders have to reduce their forces and there are more idle men, more babies that must be fed and some more "mothers who do not know which way to turn. Among all these men there would be some without the strength to stand up against the discouragement dis-couragement and they would turn to drink. Then the babies would look in wonder upon their mothers weeping and while they cbuld not understand It, the thought undefined 6t something some-thing of sorrow would cast the first shadow on their lives. And the women. Some of them might not be strong enough to look upon their hungry babies. But let us stop here. Moral: Don't vote for1 Parker and Davis. |