The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-06
DEMOCRATS HOLD FIRST BIG RALLY OF THE
CAMPAIGN AND SCORE ALL WHO ARE 'AGIN EN-

ply the market. Now. the consistency
OF we wanting the tariff reduced on
sugar, TO ship sugar In here, with all
them odds
Tariff in Canada.
81 want 10 tell you something about
the tariff in Canada. We have got
Republican manager-he was when ne
went up there. He is about half DEM
Ocrat now. and l am going 10 tell you
what made him half Democrat The
Canadian government, the trust, came
in around US and commenced selling
sugar cheaper than anybody, and ELL
son-I ought not to mention his name,
anyway He is one of the finest men
l know, and he knew more about
bounty than l did, so he appealed 10
them for q little bounty, and the trust
was about TO run US out, and they said
We viii give you a half cent ton
bounty, but you must give the halr OF
il 10 the farmers. That made him a
half Democrat. (Applause.)
Then l want 10 tell you-now, this
other is just a joke. When we had a
directors meeting, they were all he-
publiCans but two at that meeting
nine directors. Brother Ellison says:
Now, Brother knight does not believe
in bOunties, so we viii take il all and
Of course / objected. l told him that
was the first Democratic bounty that
ne had ever heard OF, and they are so
used 10 taking il all that, by George, he
was ready. 10 do it, (Laughter(
"Now, il George had not mentioned
ne. / wouldn't have mentioned him, 1
viii promise you. 1 am going to tell
you something else about George. he
Is a good, honest, clever man, and 1
like him in lots OF ways, but / am go
ing TO tell you that he knows more
about tariff than he does about some
other things.
He was my adviser five years, and
l thought his advice was good. and
I a
year TO keep me out OF trouble, and ne
did first rate along that line.
knight Is Interrupted.
He advised me- (To the gentle
men on the stage: say, / know damn
well that 1 am talking too long" }
daughter and applause) 1 do want
10 make one more point. i believe II
is good one. and 1 believe il is econ
omy. am going TO stay with my
pcint II l can. L never talked to a
text before in my life. and L am going
TO try TO. 1t isn't economy for the peo-
pie OF Utah TO have everything they
own given TO the eastern people.
They have got all back there ans
good titles to it, and the trust has
come out here and got the coal mines
and water power sites that are closest
10 the market, that is worth anything
now they propose to take control al
the rest and make us fellows that want
10 progress and build something in OPP
Just think OF it, DO you suppose
will ever live long enough TO be d leas-
er? / never Will; / won't work fol
anybody but myself. George said
was selfish. The reason l wanted u
have the tariff taken off was so / could
ship sugar in here and sell il. thank
God l am selfish enough 10 work fol
myself. There are men who do mol
know enough TO work for themselves
think that is the way they have beer
trained. in one certain thing. Now
lost my point l will tell you what
was going to say.
big GIlsOnite Veins.
4 had forty-five gilsonite mines or
the IncOmpaghre reservation.
thought they were worth fifty million
dollars. had done assessment worn
five years, surveyed railroad ul
SpringVille canyon. over the summit
have always had bigger ideas thar
1 had money 10 back them. l appealeC
to Senator SmOOt, Ed Loose, and the
president of the church; and l said
there is the biggest thing there tina
Utah ever had or ever viii have
can't describe them 10 you, the value
they will have in fifty years IRON
nOW-gilsonite veins for three miles
i'm length. seventeen 10 eighteen fee
wide not a particle of waste IN them
going deep down in the earth, nobodS
knows how deep.
When they were found and located
big men back there that call themselves
the government, some OF the senators
came out ana made an examination
They reported back 10 Washington tha'
fl was too big a thing for 10 let the
people have for nothing. We mus
take them off the market-after the
We're lOeated-We must take them OF
the market and not let them Obtain
them and get some revenue Tor oul
government. l want 10 tell you that tht
East is trying TO make the west pay
IL royalty, and pay their taxes bacH
there, and they conceived TINS plan
However, that was only a bluff. they
held them off and the people tied then
up. the St. Louis Gilsonite company
and they agreed to patent them tol
| one-third The lOcatOrs signed al
agreement for all them back claims
Time went on and the government
would not let them patent them. Jo'
Rawlins was back there. l wrote hin
and talked TO him here, and go
/ George 10 go with me and see Joe Raw
/ Inns, and George all the time advised
me that the government would be too
/ big a thing for me TO fight.
One Point of View.
/ 1t was as plain as could be to me
from my point of view, that the gov
! eminent had not right TO take then
/ away from the poor citizens, and the!
| had done S5OO worth of work on a CLAIM
and applied for patent here and Wer'
! turned down. Attorney Bird, here IL
/ Salt Lake, the land office attorney
wrote up a brief and went back L
/ Washington and applied for patent, an
they turned him down there. and l go
/ that brief and showed il 10 George
/ and read it, and i said: George, II W.
! force that into the courts OF the UnlJe'
States. they would have TO let US paten
/ it Well he said, it Is pretty BIZ
| thing: l don't think you had better un
/ dertake to fight the government. Wen
/ I did not feel right about 1t. 1t rul
along for five years / done assess
ment work on As claims. Now, min'
/ YOU, l bought the claims from the origl
nal lOcatOrs. They We're being troz
out. and 1 got them for pretty nea
nothing: bought them pretty cheap. be
cause they thought they had no chane
| TO hold them; they said: We Will b
| froze out: that combination VIII freez
US out So l bought them cheap AM
! / told my friends TO hold onto the res
/ of them; 1 said, i do not believe the
can make such a steal; and flnail'
/ they were trying TO lease from IN
government for 100 years.
Knight Sold Out.
81 began to think if they leased 70
a hundred years, l would not live lon
/ enough TO get any good out or them
so / might sell out. So L dld sell ou'
/ | gave fifty million dollars for abou
/ fOTtv-five thousand dollars. ! ma
spent perhaps half of that IN holdine