The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-16
An Interesting Meeting at the
Court Room Last Night.
MR.. POWERS TARIFF SPEECH.
A Large Audience Highly Entertained
by Good Solid Democratic
Argument.

Democracy and many others not inter-
ested in the club were present and were
well repaid for going by the excellent
speech of Judge Powers.
The Judge was in his happiest mood,
and by intermingling good stories with
solid and unanswerable tariff argu-
ments, he succeeded in holding his au-
dience deeply interested. Republican
arguments in favor of protection were
taken up and disposed of to the apparent
satisfaction of all present, and d. mo-
cratic, or Stree trade" principles were
shown up in all their strength and
solidity.
GOOD STORY.
Among other things, Mr.. Powers
gave an admirable illustration of the
love of these protected monopolists for
the poor working man. IN little
anecdote, which, though it must be
heard TO be fully appreciated, may not
be dry reading in print. 1t was about
as follows:
A miner who had been working out
in Tintic with Jim Nye, told me this.
He said: Jim was standin' over q
rock with a sledge and drill q
drivin' and drivin' and a drivin'
and he KEEP on a drivin' and
drivin' and drivin' till q
piece of dynamite happened to work
itself down into the hole, and while Jim
was q drivin' ana q driv:n' and q
drivin -phitl And there went Jim up
into the air and ne KEEP goin' All q
goin' and goin' till he was no bigger'n
8 boy; and he KEEP a goin' and a goin'
and goin' till he was no bigger'n a
cat, and he KEEP goln' and goin' and
goin' till he was no bigger'n bee;
apG he still KEEP goin' and goin' and
a goin' till he was clear out Of sight.
After while we happened to LOOK up
into the SKY and there was Jim q
comm a. d a comm and comm till
he looked as big as bee; and he KEEP a
comm and comm and q comm till he
was as big as cat; and he KEEP a
comm and a comm and comm till
he was as big as boy: and he still KEEP
comm and comm and comm IN
til there was Jim back again a drivin'
and drivin' and drivin', and would
you believe 1.-THE manager Of that
protected silver mining corporation
came around and docked Jim for the
sixteen minutes he had been up in the
air. J."
PROTECTION OF FARMERS.
Switching from his humorous strain
the Judge went on to show what a
mockery is the pretense the Republicans
make at protecting the farmer. He
said the only satisfaction they gave the
granger was promise to protect the
wool interest. The interests of the
wool growers of this country. said the
speaker, are in the Mills bill. If the
protectionists were going to be fair; if
they were going to protect the farmer,
they would pay bounty OF AZ per cent.
upon every pound of wheat that is
shipped from this country.
on wool and the price of woo! was
to the present day.
speaker read extracts from the recent
tariff edition of the San Francisco Er-
Gminer, quoting paragraphs from an
A. Wise, one of the most prominent
WIZ 6AoWoAS Al VIC S'o'c VI OoAA
fornia.
He said that the protectionists were
SO much in love with their theories
that they ought to carry them out and
not be satisfied with building Chinese
wall OF statutes around the whole
country. Then, after showing that
the sun Is a great free trader, the
speaker advocated for these protec-
tionists, a plan for cutting off his
rays. He suggested that they build an
immense canopy of iron over the en-
tire land ard, in very clever sentences,
the Judge proceeded to show how
everyone from the Andrew Carnegie's
down to the undertakers and even the
police court lawyers would get nibble
at the fruits of this protection.
Every man is free trader, said
Judge Powers; he buys his goods
where he can get them cheapest; he
sells his goods where ne can get the
best price for them.
ON TRUSTS.
Mr.. Powers gave very clear and
explicit definition of trusts, and showed
how and why, Notwithstanding Mr..
Blaine's famous speech in favor of
trusts, the people have right to say
in the matter. In England, trusts have
been known ana prosecuted from time
as conspiracies.
Mr.. Blaine to the contrary notwith-
standing, trusts. like the Chinese, must
go: or, to put it differently, the Chinese
come and trusts must &c.
The speaker said that the Protec-
tionists accused the free traders of
trying to make of America what had
been made of Ireland. 1t vas protec
ton that placed Ireland under the
heel of England. 1t was the corn laws
which made it unlawful to import corn
Or wheat from any other country, or TO
buy wheat or corn in one county TO sell
in another-thus doing away with the
profits of the middle man-it was these
avs that made Ireland what she is
to-day.
Next came an eloquent peroration on
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Grover Cleveland, said Judge Powers,
IS as good man as yer breathed the
rec air of America. (Applause.) His
interests are with the people OF Amer
ca. Last of all things would
ne advocate anything that is un-Amer.