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Show WHY ARE WE INTERESTED? If you would ask the people of such states as Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Utah and Ne w Meixco what industry was among their greatest employer of yabor and producers of new wealth, they would say mining If you would ask the people of Washington and Oregon what industry was their greatest employer of labor, they would tell you lumbering and logging. If you would ask the people of these states how conditions were when these industries were inactive they would tell you, bad. Lumber is the barometer of prosperity in the northwest states, mining is the barometer of prosperity in mountain and southwest states. Both these industries are dependent on sound business conditions condi-tions which encourage general industrial activity requiring new construction, con-struction, railroad development, hydro-electric development and building of all kinds. It would seem, therefore, that western people would be solidly behind any national program lookng to the maintenance of safe and sane national policies and to moderation in taxation. Also that they would be against radical labor policies of the I. W. W., the Russian destructionisls and our own labor leaders who apparently would not hesitate to wreck the country industrially in order to establish es-tablish their dictatorial programs. It is the common citizen who suffers most when our big primary industries such as lumbering or mining are interfered with by local, state or national policies |