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Show DOWN WITH COAL TRUST. The people of Utah must resist the increased, and increasing, price of coal. The Standard calls upon the attorney general ard secretary of state of Utah to take such action as may promise relief from the coal monopoly in this state. With coal selling at $6.50 a ton, there are hundreds of families that cannot buy fuel enough to keep warm. It is only a few years since coal was selling at $4.50 a ton. Gradually Grad-ually the' price has been advanced until this winter it is at almost prohibitive figures. Furthermore, the . coal supplied the people is often an inferior fuel, containing slate and non-combustible material, and, now and then, short weight is given. These injustices call for a public protest from every part of this state. , j . Our public off icials should take the lead in protecting the public from such an injustice. |