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Show Insolent challenge to know what tho people, are going to do about it. Well, what are you going to do about it? -re you disposed to meekly submit to thla additional outrageou extortlou, or will you. like true mon and women, assert your proper rights and Insist lhat tho people of Utah should be treated us fairly aa others living under llko conditions? These railroad companies are already al-ready overweighted with treasure from the extravagant profits arbitrarily arbitrar-ily wrung from the great and steadily lucreasing volume of valuable traffic vhich you "have created and so bounteously boun-teously bestowed uion them, and yet I they are not satisfied. Members of a new legislature are to le elected in this state on next Thursday. Thurs-day. Are you going to send real men, who will steadfastly do iheir sworn constitutional duty in these things, and with honesty and courage guard the interests and welfare of the people? peo-ple? It la now for you to say. The lemedy Is In your hands alone. Demand De-mand an unqualified and favorable declaration from every legislative candidate can-didate of his intentions to carry out the mandate of the constitution, and if ! rot positively made, snow him under with your ballots. It 1.4 the only way and it rests with you to apply it. Rates in Other States. Within this state, and less than one hundred and twenty miles from this cliy. vast measures of native coal exist, ex-ist, and from that district now, and for the future the coal you need mujt come. ITtah being wholly without adequate laws for the proper regulation of railroad rail-road transportation charges, observe, pimply as an example, the railroad freight rates on coal you are compelled com-pelled to pay and what is charged in the other states named, under their laws, for a transportation haul of 120 relies. Here are tho rates per ton; Xorth Dakota $ .07 Indiana , 7o Illinois Texas l 00 I":a l.m; Oklahoma 1.10 Mlouri l.io Montana 1.10 Utah 1.73 Coal rates must romp down. S. H. LOVi.. President. W. S. MCCARTHY. Secretary. NEW BULLETIN OH (M RATES It is Put Forth by the Commercial Club Traffic Bureau. Allepinp that the railroads were responsible re-sponsible for the increase In the price of coal latit Tuesday a.U that there was vo legitimate reason lor the I urease, the Commercial eiiib traffl'i bureau, at a meeting Thursday afternoon, after-noon, issued another at the "C'onl Kates Must Come Down" luilVtlns. The bulletiu is as tullows, dated November No-vember 1 : Coal rates mutt come down Utah c: al for Utah people. Constitution of the state of Utah, article ar-ticle XII. section ID. says: j he legislature shall pass laws establishing es-tablishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transpoi talkm of Iiassengers and freishl, for correcting abuses and preventing discrimination : nd extortion In lates of frei.d.t and passenger tariffs by the different rull-mad rull-mad and other common carriers In the state, and shall enlorce slicu laws by adequate penalties." To the Pe-ople ..f Utah The price coal In this city were today suddenly sudden-ly and without notice advanced to $ per ton lnr nut and tn $'.2.'. for hnup. ''orresfiondlng advances were ma le at f pden. Provo. and generally through-eu; through-eu; the state. The railway companies oprr.'ing in L'tah are- the owners uf the clii i pro-e'i pro-e'i clng "coal conipanies" fu'i:dying yrur coal, hence those absolutely controlling con-trolling railway companies ;ire wholly whol-ly responsible- for these Increased prices. Stand and Deliver. I' U is the sland-and-deliver policy of the railroads t.jward our people again given crucial example., aud a renewed |
