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Saturday,January23, 1926
MINING
The World’r Greatest Industry.
By Former Governor Win Sulzer
Political Economists tell us
that mining, next to agriculture, !
is the greatest inuust y in our
Cou ntry.
Tins is true from the view
point that if our soil were until!
ed there would he little to eat,
and famine would stalk the land.
From a financial, or mono
tar.v. standpoint however, to s y
nothing about relativity, and
every commodity ;s relative to
the product of the Mines, the
mining industry is the greatest
in the World. The truth of this
as -iertion becomes apparent when
it is visualized that mining gives
us the standard of value b\
which the price of almost every
thing [mtilu.-t d n.v the brain and
brawn ol man is measured. Ab; n
don mining and the value of
every commodity would be in
significant, humanity would sink
back to the barter and exchange
age, and financial paralysis would
lock in its deadly grasp the in
dustries of mankind. It would
be the greatest calamity that
ever befell the human race, and
in less than a generation civiliza
tion would revert to barbarism
when primitive man knew noth
ing about copper, gold, silver,
iron, steel, lead, zinc, and the inv
aluable mineral resources of
Mother Earth.
Those who decry mining
are ignorant of history, or have
ulterior purposes to serve, ll
they Know anything they must
know that all business; that ah
industry; that all human prog
ress depends on the mines.
The wealth from the mines
from the dawn of time is the
epic of the song and story of
human advancement, of man’s
march along the paths of prog
ress.
Show me a people without
mines, ana 1 will show you a
people deep in the mire oi pov
erty, ana a thousand years bell
ind Llie procession oi' civilization.
it was the mines that made
the greatness oi the past; that
maae the ancient civilizations;
ttiat matte Egj pt great; Unit
mane Greece great; that made
Koine great; and in modern
tunes me mines have made
t>pain, and Lngiand, and tiie
uuiLea StaLes great beyond tile
uiearns oL avarice.
Mining is essential to the ad
vanoeineiit ui mankind, and to
the pi ogress oi civilization. Min
ing has done more for the human
race ilian all other agencies com
bmed. Mining has made more
poor men millionaires, in the
uecades ot tue ages, than ali
other things put together.
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