Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-12-29
FOR LEAD MINERS.

free. The provision in either clause
will paralyze the lead industry in this
country.
The former will be IS per cent on
the lead price at Spanish or Mexican
port which price IS not above the
equivalent Of II cents per pound or
say about 10 cents per pound duty.
The latter means free lead in vast
quantities, orallowing that lead comes
in halfand half on the above sched-
ules the duty on the total quantity will
be on the average only ten cents per
100 pounds. At present that would
mean refined lead laid down at s2.35
to 40 in New York city, which price
for lead would net only about II cents
per pound TO the western shipper.
Any Amelcan mine owner can calcu-
late whore he will come out on that.
Nor must we be deceived by the
specious plea Of those who desire this
low tariff, and say that the demand
from America will advance the Euro
pean market to a 81 cent limit, for the
best authorities state that Spain, Aus.
trala and Mexico can turn out so, 900
tons per annum from their reserves
without advancing prices more than
one quarter Of cent per pound.
We therefore strenuously urge every
miner to write to his Congrcssmanand
Senator protest against these lead
clauses, and VIC also urge every min
ing camp to organize movement
against it and to unite and form a
General State Committee and to have
them organize General Central Com
mittee. We also urge all officers OF
Lead Mining Companies to write and
authorize Mr.. Hugh N. Camp, CT So
Liberty street, Now York, to attach
their names to petition to the Com
nittee Of Ways and Means praying
them tc alter the bill so as to give
lead in ores, dross, etc, a reasonable
protection. The amount OF the pro-
duct Of their several mines should also
be added, so as to give weight and
value to the petition. Work in this
direction will pay better than mining
just now.
THE ST. JosFFn LEAD Co.,
Hugh N. Camp, Treas, Missouri.
DEsLoGE LEAD Co.,
Firman Desloge, Pres. Missouri.
DOE RUN LEAD Co.,
c. b. Parsons, V. p, Missouri.
PIcHER LEAD Co.,
o. II. Plcher, Pres. Joplin, No.
BUNKER HILL s. SULLIVAN Co.,
+. w. Bradley, Pres. Warduer, Id.
SAM'L w. HAUsER,
Ex-Gov. Montana, Helena, Mon.
OLD JORDAN & GALENA Co.,
A. f. Holden, Salt Lake City.
NATIONAL SMELLING Co.,
Barton Sewell, President, Chicago.
SENATOR d. II. MoFFET,
Pres. Amethyst Mine, Denver, Col.
w. +. JAMES, Salt Lake City, Utah.
L. E. HOLDEN, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Kansas City Star says: II it is
ever proposed to admit-New Mexico as
a state of the Uuion the present is as
good time AS any. The country has
been American ground for nearly fifty
years aud the great majority of the
population is composed of native born
American citizens who have never
known any flag but ours. Unless it is
set up that people of Spanish and Span
iSh American descent are incapable,
from the fact of that descent, of COM
pretending republican institutions,
the people of New Mexico are fairly
posted as to our system ofgoyernment
thu greater number OF them never hav-
ing known any other. The fact that
a considerable portion of the popula-
tion did not speak English, was not
considered bar to the admission Of
California where the original native
people spoke Spanish; nor was it con-
sldered an objection to New YORK in
the union Of the Old Thirteen, +" that
many people along the Hudson and the
Mohawk in those days spoke Dutch;
nor to Pennsylvania that thousands Of
native born people spoke no word but
German, as did their defendants for a
long time after. Why should language
form an objection to New Mexico?
The objection to the admission OF any
territory on account of its political
complexion is an unjust and dishonest
one il the other qualifications of ad-
mission are present. The politics OF
territory are transitory and change
able; the rights Of its people and their
interests as citizens of the United
States are perpetual and should alone
be taken into consideration.
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