The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-03-28
A DISASTROUS CHANGE.


tive Dorcmus, aimed at the Houghton
mining school, and that OF Senator
Doran, to lay tax OF twenty cents a
ton upon the output OF the upper pen
insula iron mines, the Marquette Min
ing journal punctures the assumptions
set up by the authors OF those meas
ures in manner so entertaining and
convincing that they need only TO be
fairly read TO satisfy any intelligent
person OF the soundness OF It's facts and
conclusions.
OF the proposition to tax the mines
the Mining Journal says:
"of all the iron mines wrought last
season In the Lake Superior region, not
over one-fourth realized any profit
whatever for their owners. Several
were run at loss. A few made
money, but none could show such n
margin OF profit on the years work
as all are credited with by the lower
peninsula papers and Legislators which
advocate the imposition OF ruinous
tax upon them contemplated by Sem
ator Doran's bill"
There In no question OF the truth OF
the foregoing statement. III there is
any defect IL lies In the fact that the
Mining Journal has understated the
condition. Less than two weeks ago,
while discussing Senator Doran's bill
with "a very reputable citizen of the
upper peninsula who is a practical
iron miner and has been In the business
from early youth, he said: Let them
pass that bill and it Will close every
leased mine in the upper peninsula.
In less than six months there will be
10000 miners out OF work. II viii
check all further development OF min
Ing interests In that region until we
lnntfprG I'm tram
aratc state existence, which we would
be obliged to seek for self-preserva-
ton"
The Marquette Mining Journal inti-
mates, also, that the penlnsulas can
be held together on the basis OF fair
treatment only and says, I'VE had
very little cause for complaint In this
respect while the Republican party
held the reins OF power In Michigan.
II the party now In the ascendancy
a hostile policy toward us, IL will
thereby prove itself unfit to admin.
lister the affairs OF n great state,
and time will soon give the voters OF
the upper peninsula chance To get
even with It,"
BY the measures OF Messrs. Doran
and Dorcmus, the Democratic party
has already destroyed all confidence
that might have been reposed in Its
professions previous to the fall cleo
ton by the upper peninsula. The sue
cess OF that party has already proved
a serious blow To the upper section OF
the state. and may yet prove disas-
trous. But her citizens are alive TO
the danger. The deeply regret the
causes which placed the Democrats
In power. and Will retrieve the sta To
at the earliest prac ticable moment,
placing IL again in the hands OF the
party under whose wise and fostering
hand for 36 years Lake Superior was
developed from wilderness TO the
proud and prosperous condition which
she now holds almost an empire with
I'm herself
The attitude OF the Democracy, n
persisted In, VIII be even more far
reaching than we have indicated. with
I'm the past two or three years there
has grown up In some OF the Southern
states an iron industry which IL fierce
~ antagonistic to the upper peninsula
OF Michigan, and VIII require the most
strenuous efforts 20 successfully com
pete with it. Senator Doran's bill
plays directly into the hands of the
South by striking n Gripping blow
at our home interests This idea OF
helping everything but home interests
~ good Democratic doctrine, and the
senator ~ therefore consistent; but
u won't strike the upper peninsula
favorably, and they viii fall into an
ugly way OF comparing the fair and
fostering policy OF the Republican par
~ with the present destructive acts
of the Democracy, which will shut
that party out Of Michigan for the
next 80 years In spite OF any gerry
mander that can be made Indeed, it
IL believed by many that IL has al.
ready done so. Democracy In Lake
superior IL dead. Dornn and Dore-
mus murdered it.-State Republican.