The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-17
REPUBLICAN ROT.

Perhaps the one thing Republicans
are making most OF In The present
campaign is the proposed reduction of
the tariff @ = wool. There is not COM
mercial or domestic horror known
which begins to compare, in the esti-
nation of these lusty-lunged patriots,
with the possibility of taking off the
tariff on wool. And they prove t,stoo-
after the fashion of the noble Repub-
lican fraternity. They point TO the
fact that the price of wool has already
decreased almost 100 per cent, owing
to the fear that the Mills bill shall
become a law, with wool on the free
list. What is truly surprising is that
there are wooI-grogers and farmers
who believe this insufferable twaddle
Let US look at the condition squareiy.
The Mills bill does propose to take
tie duty off WOOL. This bill has passed
the House; but It's not law set. There
sands between the bill and its be
coming & law a Republican Senate which
was never known to permit any bill to
become 6 law that might prove real
b enefc to the laborsr and possible
hurt to the Republican monopelists
WAC compose the majority OF the
United States Senate. Is there q single
Republican who honestly believes that
wool viii be put On the free list so long
Is either branch of Congress is domi
mated by Republicans? Not one, NE,
not ONE" Is there a solitary Repub-
Ecan who csndidly looks forward to
the coming of time, within reasonable
years, when the Republican party will
not control at least one branch of Con-
gress? Not one, "No, not one!'
Then, how can the duty on wool be
taken off, unless Republicans connive
with Democrats to that end? Surely
the way is not so dark that it may not
be traversed in safety. With such
political condition continuing there
is no more likelihood of any
permanent reduction in the value of
wool than there is of thoroughbred
Republican telling the truth about
Democrat.
The cry of reduced incomes from
wool, if the duty is taken off, has been
borne upon the Republican wind, and
Godspeed has been Did by every specu-
lator who handles a pound of wool,
under the well founded conviction that
it would create panic among wool
growers and he would reap a rich har-
vest as the result. The Republican
party, with its assassin instincts, has
fostered this spirit of doubt and fear in
the hope that the blind believers IN the
fat bellied god of protection would fee
to it for safety. It was then within
the power of the party of free gin to
prove itself the friend indeed of the
Iaborer by telling wool growers to be at
ease; that its puissant arm was raised
to defend and preserve their interests.
but the cowardly slave of the rich
monopolist for once kept its blatant
mouth shut, at a time when it might
have done some good to those it pro-
claims its friends.
We can tell the wool growers
Of this section and of the
co1ntry at large that there will be no
reduction IN the duty On wool during
this session of Congress or any other
so long as Republican bondholders and
monopolists control one of its branches.
The man VINO believes there will be is
an ass, be his politics what it may.
If the wool grower can hold on to his
wool and refuse to part with it in
response to the behest of the wary
Spectator, he Will find the price as
surely going up as it has surely gone
down, and Republicans and wool sharks
may shout free wool till they burst q
blood vessel. Manufacturers must
have wool, and the middle man has got
sense enough to know that free wool i:
along way off. He joins the Repub
lican vail because il helps to increase
the gold lining in his pocket.
The Rspu olican who says the de-
creased PR e Is du to the fear that the
duty will be taken OFF wool, is one or
all OF three things: lie is fool, liar,
or thief Il he does not know better
hsis fool; if n knows better and re-
peats the e ne is liar; if he does not
repeat it for political reasons, but does
repeat the cry knowing it to be untrue.
his object is to take an unfair advant- |
age of the producer and be is morally q
thief.
And of such IS the Republican .rty.
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