Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-03-18


| tive Doremus, 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
insuia iron minds, the Marquette Min
ing journal punetures the assumptions
SET up by the authors oil those meas
ures in a manner so entertaining and
| convincing that they need only TO be
fairly read To satisfy any intelligent
person OF the soundness of its facts and
| conclusions.
Oh The proposition to tax the mines
| the Mining Journal says:
| "oi all the iron mines wrought last
season in the Lake Superior region. not
over one-iourth realized any profit
whatever for their owners. Several
were run at a loss. A few made
| money, but none could show such "A
| 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 Sen
ator Doran's bill
There is no question OF the truth OF
| the foregoing statement. IL 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 u 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 viii be
| 10000 miners out OF work. 1t will
check all further development of min
| ing interests in that region until we
can put matters in train for a sep
arate state existence, which we would
| be obliged TO seek for self-preserva-
| ton"
The Marquette Mining Journal inti-
mates. also, that the peninsulas 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.
| If the party now in the ascenuancy
"A hostile policy toward US, Ii will
thereby prove itself unfit To admin
lister the affairs OF great state.
| and time will soon give the voters OF
the upper peninsula a chance TO get
| even with it,
BY the measures OF Messrs Doran
| and Doremus, the Democratic party
has already destroyed all confidence
| that might have been reposed in it's
| ton by the upper peninsula. The sue
cess OF that party has already proved
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 practicable moment.
| placing IL again in the hands of the
party under whose wise and fostering
| hand for 36 years Lake Superior was
| developed from a wilderness TO the
proud and prosperous condition which
she now holds-almost an empire with
| in herself
The attitude OF the Democracy. II
persisted in, will be even more far
re aching than we have Indicated. With
in the past two or three years there
has grown up in some OF the Southern
states an iron industry which is fierce
| ~ antagonistic TO the upper peninsula
| oil Michigan. and will require the most
strenuous efforts TO successfully com
pete with IL. Senator Doran's bill
plays directly into the hands Of the
South by striking Gripping blow
at our home interests. This idea of
helping everything but home interests
| is good Democratic doctrine, and the
senator is therefore consistent: but
II won't strike the upper peninsula
fayorably. and they will 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 % years In spite Of any gerry
hlander that can be made. Indeed. n
u believed by many that IT has al.
ready done so. Democracy I'm Lake
superior is dead. noran and Dore.
mus murdered it--Sfa.e SsepublIcsn