The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-21
THE PEOPLE WIN.

HELP THE PEOPLE WIN
THE Herald Republican hopes that the Commercial Club
Traffic bureau will to the aid Of the people in the
fight that being made to get cheaper COAL And this fight
is the peoples fight This paper do but little to win the
fight it does not have the support of the people An earnest
pubic sentiment get anything it wants that right and
public sentiment viii not support anything that wrong If
the people cheaper coal and entitled it, they will
get any person influence that gets the way Of the
people when they are aroused likely to hear something to its
advantage.
That the people entitled to lower price COAL there
cannot be any question The dealers able to sell coal at
$3.50 during the months and if that could be
done lhen it be done Even that price for coal is
ridiculous Coal ought to sell in Salt Lake and all Utah
for 500 and if the people of the state make up their
minds to get at that price power earth keep them
from getting IT. far profit Tor all concerned Is all that Is
necessary and price OF $500 ton would give every that
handles it fair and Just profit for his work
Since this is the peoples fight the Commercial Club Traf
c bureau which organized to get the people square deal
the matter of freight rates. take hold of this coal sua
ton The bureau has taken great deal of interest in the
price of coal since its organization years ago. Just
before the election it sent bulletin declaring that local
data in its files has been investigating the matter for two
years.
That data ought be placed the disposal of the
secretary Of state who has given his word that he will act
gets the necessary information upon which to do
No who knows Mr. Tngey will doubt that he will keep his
word 1t Is excellent opening for the Commercial Club Ira
c bureau have doubt that the bureau will the pos
sbtes in this fight and that it will give the officers of the
law all the assistance in its power
The rise in the price Of coal at the outset of winter
the people of the nothing short
robbery The price raised because necessary that the
people have the COAL and they must pay any price that the
fit 1t concerted action the part
of the retail dealers combination and the producers The in
dependent companies joined in it with singular unanmit and
that manimity makes the matter perfectly proper for
action under the law.
Various excuses have been given by the retailers the
absolutely has been made by the producers
The trust has gotten away with thoroughly in past years
that feels that needs give explanation the people for
this latest piece of highway robbery. So arrogant It, that it
puts circulars into the hands of the retailers help them
clear themselves Of responsibility yet tells the people nothing
confident that public camOr will it always has
done.
there are indications that the people of the state
going TO submit this time The eXactOns of the trust have
been growing heavier each year. and public sentiment is about
ready demand that something be done That sentiment is
going grow 1t is not confined to Salt Lake Nineteen
counties the state feeling deeply the NATTER and the
sentiment there is also becoming strong As each member of
the legislature arrives in Salt Lake January from his home
county he is going have pretty strong opinions
the coal proposition He will know how his constituents feel
and law needed in order to curb the coal trust he
is going to be willing to furnish that law.
There many straws showing which way the wind is
blowing this coal matter just and they demonstrate
that the people not going drop this fight they have
the past Coal too high price, ought to be lower and
the people believe they il lower Just what sort of
the people may demand order draw the angs of the
coal trust it impossible to tell at this time. Public senti
ment is crysalzng and it apparent that unless the
situation has materially improved before the opening of the
Legislature drastic legislation will be demanded
Many people believe that there is sufficient law already
the statute books of the dissolve the They
point out that the law fOrbds any combination affect
price of any products of the soil that the prescrbes
the method by which the attack upon the trust shall be made
and that it provides the penalty, which is the dissolution of
the companies that members of the combination
Let the present law be tested. The traffic bureau can
furnish the basis upon which the test shall be made Bv all
means, let prompt action be taken.