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Show "THE MORMONS ARE EASY" I SAYS ONE OF THE BIG GUNS OF UTAH RAILROADS! H AND TILEV ARE EASY. THEY ARE SO BLAMED EASY IT'S A WONDER THE WHOLE GOLD-BRICK GANG DOESN'T COME INTO UTAH AND PICK VICTIMS AT WILL. CACHE VALLEY PEOPLE ARE THE BIGGEST SUCKERS IN THE BUNCH and do not belle tlic asscitlon that "one Is born cery minute." But "THERE ARE OTHERS" and tliey extend all the way from Salt Lake City to the most northern teimln- ( ., als of the Oregon Short Line Railroad. And the question Is HOW LONG WILL THE PEOPLE ALONG THE OREGON SHORT LINE PERMIT THEMSELVES TO BE BUNCOED? Before another week lias passed will come that same old announcement "CONFERENCE RATES." SALT LAKK CITY AND HKTUUN. FlUISI. ATK. TltAIX LVS. Preston $ 4.23 7.10 a.m. Fninkliu 4.2.'. 7.27a.m. Richmond 4.2.'. 7.4."a. m. Smlthlleld 4.10 7.5'i a. m. LOGAN 3.80 8.13 a. in. Mendon 3.33 8.3.1a.m. Cache Jet 3.23 8.33 a. m. and the EASY people of Cache alley will go down in their jeans and pay THOSE SAME OLD RATES WHICH HAVE BEEN IN FORCE THE PAST TWENTY YEARS. The people do not hae to stand this. IT IS AN OUTRAGE but as long as "the Mm- monsnre easy," they will hae to stand It. ANY OLD REQUEST FOR A $2.30 RATE , TO SALT LAKE AND RETURN, good for V seeial da.vs WILL BEaIIONORED on a guaiantee that a hundred tickets will be sold. I The tegular Conferences of the Mormon church take many thousands to Salt Lake twice a jeai, but they pay that same old rate because the "aie easy." Only last week a special late of $l.'oo foi the lounrt trip between Salt Lake and Ogden was seemed without dilliculty, all in older that the people of the capital city might have the opportunity of seeing that moial thing A BULL FIGHT. But the Ogden people can not go to Salt Lake at Conference time fot less than $1.30. That's I ccause the Mormon's lellglouseal makes him "easy." The Oiegon Shot t Line knows that the te-llglous te-llglous fealty of the people wllltuin their faces to the Temple and Tabernacle twice a jcar no mattei what the price, and as a consequence con-sequence the oillclals continue to trade on that religious fcior and make a discrimination discrimina-tion that is unjust in oidcr that their pockets tnav be the heavier by a few thousand dollais. This $.1.80 rate fiom Logan and, coi responding respond-ing lates from other parts of Cache Valley, and along the whole line of the O. S. L., was made when cost of mils, ties, fuel, etc., was 200 per cent greatei than at picscnt. The cost of cverthing in connection with a tallioad has como down eiy matei tally In the past twenty jears but THERE HAS BEEN NO CUT IN PASSENGER RATES on the O. S. L. 30 jeais ago steel tails cost $!K), now they can be bought for $30. Twenty jears ago ties cost practically twice as much as at the piesent time. When the Utah Noithein was built, section hands were paid $2.00 per day. Today the aerage pay will not exceed $1.30. Tralllc ten, fifteen, and twenty j ears ago was neither a third nor a half what it Is lodaj, .vet the expense of opeiatlng and maintaining the load today Is not greater than in earlier das. In tiaellng from one end of the O. S. L. to tlKiothci fiom Salt Lake to Huntington u distance of 300, the rate s $20.00. THIS IS 4 CENTS A MILE, AND ON THE REMAINDER REMAIN-DER OF THE HARRIMAN LINES. THE RATE IS THREE CENTS. Not only is theic a tluee cent late on the Hariiman lines In Oiegon and California but the N. P. in Washington, Northern Idaho and Montana also gives a three cent late. The cost of opeiatlng the O. S. L. is Insignificant Insigni-ficant In compaiison with that of the S. I'., Or. U. It. & Nav. Co., and N. P These lines tiaveiso mountainous countiles, and tlicO. S. L. is piactlcally on a level from one end to the other, and has fuel on Its own lines. It digs it out at Kemmerer, 8,000 feet aloc sea lcel and drops It gradually to Huntington. THE TIME HAS COME when the gicat Conference ciowds should demand and get the same consideration that is aicoided bull-lighters bull-lighters and loveisof that doubtful sport. If a late of $1.00 for the lonnd trip rioin Salt Lake to Ogden can he made then the O. S. L. I can atroul to run tinlns fiom Cache valley to i Salt Lake and letuin at theiateof $2.30 per passenger. Not should the people be hoodwinked bj the oft repeated plea that the road can notatroid to do this because or the fact that tickets aie issued good for "five" or "ten" dajs. THIS IS DONE FOR THE ADVANTAGE OF THE ROAD AND NOT AS ' AN ACCOMMODATION TO THE PEOPLE. By doing this, the load can and does handle the enoimous Confcience tialllc without with-out etra expense. A few cats are added to tegular trains and that Is all. THi: REPUBLICAN has been led to believe that the oillclals of the Mormon chinch have been accorded few favois and foi these have had to bend the knee at every turn. The tiat-lie tiat-lie in this countiy Is Moimon, and the Mormon oillclals the best agents the railroad have, and the roads could better afford to pay them a sakny than to give them favors giudginglj. Theic Is no state in the union that has I sliown the rallioads greater favors than Utah, and It was the boast of Gov. Stan-fowl Stan-fowl of C. P. fame that he "never was compelled com-pelled to send a manor spend a dollar to pio-tect pio-tect i.iilioad Interests when the legislatures convened In Utah!" Compaie this with what Is tiue in other states. Rallioads have to spend hundiedsof i thousands of dollais with each Icglslatme In ruder to protect themselves fiom ruinous legislation. legis-lation. The Mormon chinch has always given a frlendlj handtotherallioads,andwliathavcthe Moimon people iccelved In li'tinn. NOTHING BUT DISCRIMINATION "because they aie eas) ". Compare lesult of recent stiike In Utah with piesent conditions In Colorado and othci mining min-ing states. The Influence of the Moimon chinch In the mattei of labor Doubles Is foi good a quiet, settled condition. Till: MORMONS SHOULD RISK IN Wl THEIR MIGHT AND SHOW THAT THEY ffll ARE not "easj" any longer. They hare but wll to unite, make demands that arc Justlllable, Kl and THEY WILL GAIN THEIR POINT. Sl The Republican contends that the people of Kl Logan aie entitled to a $2.30 late dining con- Sl ference, and that the tates fiom other points I Wl in Cache Valley should be piopoitlonatc. nl It also claims that theic Is no reason why V Hl the lates on this pait of the Haulmait lines I inl should not be the same as on other portions of hII that line and on the N. P. The Republican believes that the people arc 9 Justified In asking this consldeiation, and sug- H gests the following means of accomplishing fll tho desired end: IH LET MA SS M EETI NGS BE II ELD 1 X A LL H THE COUNTIES TRIBUTARY TO THE flH O. S. L. LINES and icsolutlons adopted tie- H nounclng the discrimination. H LET PRESIDENT HARRIMAN BE PETI- 91 TIONED FOR JUSTICE IN THE MATTER. 91 LET THE PRESIDENCY OF THE MOR- ifi MON CHURCH BE PETITIONED TO Sl "CUT OUT" CONFERENCE AT SALT Vll LAKE UNTIL JUSTICE IS DONE THE ftl PEOPLE. You may miss some good advice flH but you'll save jour faic, hotel bills, and spend il w Ith home merchants the gieat sums of money ll that go Into the cotTeis of Salt Lake merchants ll The Republican feels certain that such 9l petitions and protests signed libeially by the Sll people, w ill bear fruit. fll Begun this tight now and stick with It until H It Is won. Fight it out on this line If It takes H a half docn summcis but It will leqtilie no nioic than a detennined stand to win out. tl THERE MUST l!E PROMPT ACTION. jl CALL YOUR MEETINGS AT ONCE AND H GET UP YOUR PETITIONS. Tim IlKi'itiii.tcAN is with jou in this matter flH and will light foi jou until) on win. fl "GET IN THE GAME" AND THEN jH PLAY HARD. JH |