The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-22
has AT least brought tho Standard
around to admitting that there is such
domination
THE SAME OLD THING.

same old methods TO get ut NJ, the diI
ference being that two years ago il
J was the liquor interests that were the
objects of blackmail; this year it is
The coal dealers and transportation
companies The Smoot paper at that
time ran big, red headed boxes ou its
front page asking everybody to come
forward and say why prohibition would
not be good thing for Utah. a good
many pIous people did so. only TO find
later on. to their chagrin, that they
had been vicitimizod and used by black
mailers in a scheme to hold up the
liquor dealers, and betrayed as soon
as the hold-up had been successful
In getting coin Because The Tribune
dId not Join in that blackmail of the
hquor dealers and take part in the raid
u was denounced by the blackmaiers
as IN the pay of the liquor interests
and owned - BY the saloon men.
ThIs year VIC sec the same old red.
headed appeals in behalf of the lower.
ing of the price of coal lin fact if
ought TO be lowcred); the same old
irantlc appeals for relief (moauine con
trlbutions to the bIac ckmailcrs), and tbo
same Old dcnunciatiop of The Tribune
because 1t refuses 10 Join iu the black.
mailing programme. Then il was
owned - by the saloon men and die.
tated to by the liquor interests. Now il
is owned y by The coal combines and
! Is the ServItor of the transportation in
'eFes's. The same old symptoms. The
same Old diagnosis The same old
remedy. l.. c., those attacked must
come Gown to the Federal bunch,
settle, and after that, be let alone.
nc Tribune points out that the pco
PIC OF this community are entitled TO
rehef from excessive coal charges. 1t
mas maintained that all the time ba 6
Fought on that line a good many wears;
ou' III loathcs and despiscs blackmaiI-
ers and all schemes for blackmail II
refuses 10 Join in any such dirty work.
put conducts its campaign Oh straight
forward. economic lines.
1t is truism that the shutting off
OF entries of coal lands establishes the
Inonopoles firmly in control of tbc coal
market, and enables them to charge
Whatever prices they wish In cbargo
Tor coal, As for the TRANSFORMATION
companies. VIC hold that it makes no
differenco at all whether fbcy arc com.
pellcd to reduce their prices for haul.
ing coal or not; that the general com.
oihe mas hold and will maintain the
monopollslic rates that the Government
policy allows them to establish If
inc account IS cut on transportation il
VIII be transferred to mine account or
some other account and the pool will
dlVlde Just as before. and the price will
bc maintained at tho old rate The
Tribune understands fully what il is
talking about, while the blackmailers
do not seem to understand the situa
ton even from their own Standpoint.
nor do they care to understand IT, if
only they can get the plunder thcv
seek.
1t is perfectly plain proposition that
with the coal lands Withdrawn from,
entry, with the available coal supply in
the hands of the combine, all branches
OF which work to the common interest
OF that combine. it is idle to talk about
relief through the cutting more or less
OF ono particular item that goes into
the pool and is considered in fixing the
selling price of coal. Suppose that there
Is a cut IN any one direction. and that
cut is Immediately attached to some
other item or divided among several
other items that 90 to make up the
cost swelling the price, wherein does
The public receive any advantage? The
true remedy is TO allow of the entry of
coal lands, guarding the entries az fully
as Government may desire against anv
combination with the present combined
interests
| II is Idle to bagglc about thing
of this kind, and TO raise ap uproar
about what this or that item Of the
cost amounts to. No relief is TO be
had in that way No relief is to be
had by The combines filing the sack Of
the church campaign committee or
crossing the palms of backmsiers. The
bisckmailers are not out for reduction
IN the price Of coal They do not care
anything about that. What they want
rs TO cKtort the ma ximum amount of
I biackmail from the coal companies and
from those who do the hauling of the
coal. il is perfectly plain case. lust
as il was III the ease Of the liquor hold
up, that the blackmailcrs would be
glad 10 shift at once TO the other side
of the question and leave the public
interests tn take care Of themselves if
only they could obtain the money from
the corporations that they are strik-
ing for. AS the Smoot paper said yes
terday morning. it never did change its
base or policy and does not iuteud TO
do SO now. That is doubtless true, and
its policy and purpose having been
fully established in its liquor blackmail-
ing case, it intends and desires to
carry out the same blackmailing policy