Bisbee daily review., 1910-02-13

TUT the oSNeiOpAheHl anu pIOiAOtion ol the mining industry.
 There were killed by direct explosions in the coal mines of the United States
 in the year
 1903 ......... ...... . ..... 1.7O0
 l9V4 ........ ..-... ......... l,y6Z
 l9Vo -...--. -.--.. .-......-. 2,1I5
 1906 ... =. ......... 2,OtI 1907 ..... .. ... 3,125
 1908 ... . 2.451
 The year 1909 will show a greater
 number killed than in the year 1908.
 The figures are not available yet. It
 has been ascertained that for every
 man killed there are four injured, So that the killed and injured in the coal
 mines alone reach the startling num-
 Der of mere than 10,o00 a year. The general government made the first appropriation for the investigation of the causes of explosions and general
 inquiry into the means and methods lof conducting the mining business in
 1907. This work has been prosecuted by the Geological Survey and with . msny good results. But because of
 the fact that that department can not
 give the subject matter that thorough
 and complete examination that the
 subiect-matter demands is the most
 potent reason for placing this subject
 .n bureau of its own. The Cherry
 mine disaster, still fresh in the minds cf the people. demands of Congress
 such initial legislation. that the efforts of the Government shall be enlisted to proven the occurrence of such a loss ? e life agan.
 Tie opponents or this bill have raised the question Of federal power to 2 expend the peoples money for the } purpose Of fostering. promoting, and developing the mining industry l when the scientific results of sucI > inquiry shall result in giving valuabl, z information to the coal barons ant
 fostering private interests; that tn h Government owns no coal mines, q powerless to enforce any legislatio 's as the result of it's investigation. an l' so forth.
 The mining industries of the Unite ie States can not be made safe, life moi 's secure, without resulting in the "fo
 tering, promoting, and developing - our mining industries" l do n
 know, but l believe the organic la
 creating ahe Department of Agricl ,d ture uses this same language. MaI ,o of the bureaus do l know. The Go h, eTnment owns no farms and opeTat
 none, but it sends it's men skilled as the different departments of agricl as tural science throughout the count he to test the soils for private owner n. and advises them as to what crops c; x- be most profitably grown thereon so and are particularly adapted to ce p tain classes of soil; it even takes Il as seed directly to the private farm' Of and shows him how to plant it al ln develop the crop; the department a sues bulletins along every line of agE nd cultural industry at great expense d. the general government for the yer he purpose of fostering, promoting, ar w developing" the agricultural intere is or the United States. l. does tn ,O- under the doctrine of great publ al policies. There is no man who wou at take away from the farmer the assis le ance he is now receiving from th in department, or who would raise ot question as to the power of the ge 's- eral government to exercise such a a. yisory function over our national T th sources. I have as high regard f
 the separate and independent righ mt of the States as any man, and VII lieve that the States reserved sx- themselves all those general powe on not specifically surrendered to Il us general government. We deplore il ls- fact that the federal government nc continually and persistently encroac lD- ing upon the separate rights of U 0o states, but at the same time l we lieye it has a constituted power nI ascertain mems and measures to pr tect and develop its sources or gre ne natural wealth. and that such a poli to is proper one. It has right. t s'- country. and when such investigatio
 are had by the general governme
 as shall be found to be beneficial ne the property interests of the sever
 states and the protection of the liv n os it's citizens, there can be little dcu
 that the several state legislatures W incorporate the results of federal
 vestigation into useful legislation.
 person denies to the state that rigl What this bill seeks to accompli - is to bring to the knowledge of 1 ~ several states from the very aighe
 ' and most exhaustive source tho .- means and measures which will co ,.. serve our natural resources and mo ,ro completely protect the lives Of [ ,,o men engaged in developing them. It
 right that the general governme mn should do this: no individual sta ff should be called upon to make the (
 penditures necessary to secure tf
 information that is alike beneficl