Show IN N THE INTEREST OF ALL UTAH I On Friday evening at eight o'clock there will l be bea e ea a mass meeting of or Utah citizens at th tho Commercial club the initial step in tho the movement to convince con the ho congressional committee now sitting ng that the duty on lead should not bo be reduced It Is probable a committee will bo be appointed to prepare argument an and statistics and to get a u n to congress from tho the people ot of Utah pre present ent ng their case And that case caso is very er important to Utah It Is Important to tho the entire mountain inter country It ItIs It Itis is important to tu every interest in this largo large and a advancing ad ad- region And because It louche touche the fortunes and affects tho cf so man ninny many people hero here both for the present an and for the tho future It Jt Is important import import- ant to cyer every individual and every Interest in the entire nation In Iu the present effort to reduce the tho tariff tariff there Is Isa Isa Isa a natural movement to reduce or entirely remove the tho tariff on lead leall That Is out ono of or the tho Industries not finding loca champions in the populous East Tho The demand for lower tariff will mako make defense of this industry more difficult because the great regions from the Mississippi river to the East almost without without with with- out exception produce no lead an and those millions of I people will weigh In the argument against the smaller numbers from the mountains An And yet the tho defense must be ma made made and and e-and and that strongly There is plenty plent of oC argument The Dingley tariff went Into effect in 1898 Its Ita benefits have been appreciable to the tho nation The profits from tho tha of oC metal production havo have Increased So has the tho ho pa pay of labor At the tho end of the Wilson Wilson- Gorman tariff law In labor was paid from 2 to a day Now r mine laborers get 3 3 a D. day Th The tariff on lead Is now no one ono and one halt cents a pound If It it were repealed sliver silver mining would become unprofitable Copper production would Ian It would woul be lie a tremendously harmful blow to I the business interacts of ot Utah It would mean the closing of or the mines and suspension of ot tao work ork at atthe atthe atthe the smelters It would affect labor an and machinery men nn and railroads and timber Umber interests and far tar mers Our people cannot atford afford to permit that legislation to pass lass An And If it tho they make mal no effort in their own defense they ma may be sure the demand for fora foru a u t will bo be accomplished b by striking lead off oft the this protected list 1st as aa one of ot th undefended industries industries followed followed by b- people who ho either are mak make mg ng more than thun the they aro are fairly entitled to or who lack tho the enterprise to protect themselves |