, 1922-08-02
Politics at Wheatland

The following item appeared in the
wheatland Times just as it appears
below. 1t Is clearly a political adver-
tisement for Carey for governor.
HOW ABOUT COAL MINERS?
Mr.. Editor: When join Hay was
here Saturday and was introduced to
me by lawyer jacobson, his official
escort. one of the first things he spoke
OF was the awful lists OF delinquent
taxes all over the state. and / won
dered how he would have prevented
such lists IL he had been governor.
Would he have supplied a profitable
market for our livestock and producer
Would he have supplied Us with
| cheaper labor to make the cost of
production less; Or would he have
furnished us with money from this
fortune he has accumulated from
profiteering in coal and banking to
pay our taxes?
II he is so deeply interested in the
poverty of the people. why does he
not help out his several hundred coal
miners who have been idle for many
months rather than to accept the
starvation wages hat Hay and other
coal barons are willing to pay? Mr..
Hay should be better able to talk
about the distressed condition of coal
miners han of farmers. many of
whom are unable to pay the high
rates of interest that his banks re-
quire for farm loans, which to many
is a greater burden than state taxes.
II he has so much sympathy for peo-
pie who are hard UP, why don't he
begin to show 1t by setting his idle
miners at work and pay them decent
wages and then sell his coal at a rea-
sonable profit? When he does that L
for one will take more stock in his
concern for the rest OF the people Of
the state.
Please publish this and SEND me the
bill, but permit me to simply sign my
name. A
Advertisement.
The gentleman who signs 'Repub-
lican" lacks the nerve to sign his
name to his article and the editor of
the Times declined to publish any re-
ply thereto by e gentleman willing TO
father his own sentiments over his
name SO the gentleman has asked The
Tribune to publish the following
statement.
THE ANSWER.
wheatland, Wyo., Aug. %. 1922.
Editor of the wheatland Times:
I noticed an article in the last
wheatland Times signed Republican.
Now 1 am and have been a Repub-
ncan n long time and have several
times appeared in print but have
never been ashamed to acknowledge
L.. -.oo- y, .fDrNNO
my name. Mr., Republican says.
would Hay rave made farm labor
cheaper so hat the cost OF produc-
ton would have been less?" I think
II Mr.. Republican. whose article is
marked advertisement, will compare
wages paid farm laborers and wages
paid coal miners he will not call
miners wages starvation wages. 1
think any time that the miners VIII
go to work. the present wages they
can make Is about six times as m1on
as are paying farm hands.
counting the time put in earning a
days wages. II Mr.. Republican had
used Hays Judgment M had just a
little OF his ability he would not now
be paying SO much high priced inter
est. He speaks OF Mr.. Hay as coal
baron and banker Why does he not
give us his Whole history? He too
once was a farmer but left that n
became a plain telegraph operator.
but did not stay in the same notch
as he advanced in nat as well as all
his undertakings as he climbed in that
10 the top round on the ladder. He
became chief dispatcher. from that 10
the superintendent Of the L. p. Wyo-
ming division and from that to