The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-13
HOW THE KNOCKERS
SPEND THEIR MONEY
Nine and a Half Million Dollars
Paid to Miners An
nually.
UTAH W0RKINGMEN KNOW
WHAT KNOCKERS DO in UTAH
Contrast Made With What the
Anti-KnOckers, the HE
rarchy, Do for State.

Nine thousand men In Utah dig and
delve and burrow into the earth and
work in mill and smelter In producing
the metal output of Utah annually. In
ALL thirty thousand persons are housed
and clothed and fed and educated in the
State OF Utah on the $4,000 per day. or
nine and half million dollars per an
mum, paid to the workers by the knock
ers Of Utah and Salt Lake, paid by the
men who, II is said, do not want the
State nor Salt Lake TO grow and pros
per,
Queer thing, Is it not, how these knock
ers spend their money IN Utah?
Contrast the knockers with the hie-
rarchy. with the band OF twenty-s men
who are the anti-knockers. How many
dollars have these anti-knockers put up
to develop Utah? How many mines have
these anti-knockers developed? How
many mills and smelters has this band
OF twenty-six anti-knockers erected2
How many dollars has this gang of anti
knockers paid to the miner and the mill
worker in Utah2
This band Of twenty-siX anti-knockers,
headed by Reed Smoot, instead OF pay
ing out dollars to aid In upbuildlng the
State, In developing the mines, In erect
Ing mills and smelters. takes from the
people of Utah two millions OF dollars
annually in tithes, for which they refuse
to account. What do they do with the
money? None of II ever comes in sight.
This band of anti-knockers erect walls
and iron fences to shut out their people;
to put an air Of mystery around their
methods. This band of twenty-six anti
knockers does everything and anything
to bring the people Of Utah Into Ill re-
pute with the people of the world.
This band of twenty-six anti-knoclsers
t,l, Co1f nj
out capital, does everything possible to
keep investors from coming In. but II
welcomes the tithepayer, whom 1t can
dominate and control
Under which flag Will you march? Un-
der whose flag do you march? With the
one bearing the banner Of progress, Of
liberty, or with the one Of coercion and
depression? 1t Is UP to you to say
Friends Of Tom Pitt have persuaded
him to become a candidate for the nom
nation for Sheriff OF Salt Lake county
on the American ticket, And since he
has consented, there has been a decided
stir In circles interested in this nomi-
nation. Few men In Salt Lake are bet
ter known than Tom Pitt. and those who
are most intimately identified with his
candidacy say he would defeat any man
opposed to him on either ticket. One
OF these. speaking for him. declared
yesterday that Tom Pitt has more
friends among the hustlers In local pol
tiles than any candidate whose name has
been used by either OF the parties for
the office. His candidacy. 1t is claimed.
will bring into the American county con-
vention as strong force as a candidate
could hope for. Thus far the candidates
for the American nomination have been
vote getters and Pitts candidacy prom
ises a most interesting contest
Has IL ever occurred to the average
voter of Provo that all Reed Smoot de-
sires of them is to vote the way he tells
them and ask no questions OF ever ex-
pect any favors, or crumbs. even. from
the political pie? Several are catching
on, however, and a loud wall has gone
up from a number of the party workers.
Two of this class expressed themselves
in presence OF Tribune representative
In no uncertain terms. They declared
they had voted and worked for the sue
cess OF Reed Shoots ring for a number
OF years and on Monday night Smoot
banQueted the Ladies' Republican club
and few invited guests. and us old
party workers were ignored. but a new
convert TO the Smoot rule and ruin ring
was given a seat at the banquet board
and was the main talker. II is plain to
see that all Smoot wants of us is our
votes, but we VIII fool him q few We
have had all the Smoot we want Smoot-
ism Is the ruin Of the Republican party