Show THE STANDING OF THE MINER we have heard mines compared to banks and we have heard other industrial enterprises compared to gold mines tile the difficulty in appreciating i i such comparisons lies inthe fall fail ure to specify what bank or what mine is being considered when a bank fails the man with tile the mine mine feels that he lias has the best lot of the argument when a gold mine refuses to pan out tile the man with an invention or a mercantile establishment thinks better of himself than to compare his enterprise to a gold mine mines must be made and banks and other financial institutions must be properly managed it is difficult lo io appreciate any system of login than can view the situation any differently from this tile the miner asks no stamp jil A approval based upon mere word juggling he is able to stand on his own feet and let his achievements in the world of wealth speak for themselves there are banks and bankland bank sand there are mines and mines A great deal of space in popular mal magazines abines has been indulged in the trade of muck raking and while such publishers have given the mining industry its share of their r tirades other lines of traffie traffic have found it harder to escape than tile the promoter of mines the first of the modern muck if akers thomas W lawson set out it was supposed to reveal the evidences of corruption in the case of a i huge mining investment I 1 amalgamated am alza mated copper copp er but before lie he had proceeded far it was leoin seen chachis that his allief chief efforts were devoted to lo proving that legislatures isla tures ara venal that bankers are robbers and that insurance companies are unmentionable in the society of i innocense odense without taking into account the purchase of political parties ga s franchises etc some som oi of the ti lings N me c had related to us were enough to make an orL ordinary inary take fabricator i abri cator feel sanctified arid and respectable it might be a wise thin thing for a promoter who feels disposed to compere his mining enterprise to a bank to an insurance company or to govern ment itsell to dispense altogether with comparisons and stand on his own pedestal alin mining owes no apologies to any otiler other industry and mining investments are not beholden to any other realm of finance this we wc have bave known a long time but the lie eastern readers oi of some of of the he bis big magazines niaRa and the metropolitan ro newspapers are just beginning to find out that purity is s not a matter of f rank reputation or impressive titles and that it is not the special possession of any sphere or activity there is no difference between eastern common sense and western common sense honesty is is neither neit lier latitudinal longitudinal nor altitudinal good things lind bad thines thinas are not determined by the points of the compass the track of tile the still sim or tile the angles of nf social observances man alan is said to be the measure of all things thing and the individual man is the unit of intelligence and morality by which liis his function in society is to be dudl judged gedal ged AL mining lining science |