Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-29 | Page 7 | Utah is Not for Free Trade

I UTAH s OT F FE TA Eight years ago David Henderson then speaker of the national house of representatives told 0 O. J J. Salisbury Utah's member of the national committee If the people of Utah a and and Nevada dont don't quit voting for foi free lead we will have to give them free lead And if that had been done there would have TO been the blackness of darkness dark dark- ness floss for Utah and for Nevada Our people cannot afford to make this a Democratic state No citizen of Utah but butis butis butis is is benefited by the activity of the mines And Aud not a mine in the region could run ntH profitably profitably profitably profit profit- ably a u day lay if the duty on lead wore taken away awny Of course the shutdown would be to the embarrassment assi of the entire country for there is need of the tho copper and of the I silver and and of the he gold and in tho the course of years the demand might insure a profit I in mining again But before lefore that revival there them would be lC a period of inactivity of idleness of abandoned aban aban- I cloned mines of rusting mills of unused cars that would spell commercial disaster for forthe forthe forthe the whole of the state stute and for Idaho and Nevada as well Here I arc are the big products of Utah The rhe ores wool and sugar A li reduction could not be made in the tariff without reducing the profit in these lines As things are arc now there is a profitable business for the tile fanner farmer for the miner for the merchant for for every everyone one in the tile state Take off tho the tariff aud and those the those the foundations of Utah's Utah 5 prosperity pros would would crumble and fall Every citizen of the state should vote ote the straight Republican ticket and make it clear to the nation nution that Utah does not desire desiro to commit commercial suicide Wo We Yo dont don't want grim ruin stalking up and down tho the state A vote ote for Taft is a vote for prosperity y in Utah Every vote against him is a 0 demand demaud for the destruction of the industries on which the incomes of our people rest This is a n serious business Make Mako sure suro you vou vote for Taft and Sherman and Sherman and thereby help to insure insure Utah's remaining in ill the tile column of states that are aro arnol not nol ready to die dio i