The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-04

into shipbuilding. ETC. Will you please
expialn in what manner said duties are
levied on home-proouced materials" This
fusion Of terms. Though duties ale
NOT levied on home pro 1uced ma
terlaIs that enter into shfp-building, yet
ne cost OF such materials is enormous
increased by our system of protection. We
refuse to let in the foreign article, but in
yite the producer of the home article to
make the price excessive, and protect"
nina In doing so. Just as our tariff on steel
raA increases the cost of all steel rails
USED IN this country, whether imported or
produced here, so or tariff on ship-build-
ing materials increases the cost Of all ma
ter1als OF this class. Herein is one of the
causes why ship-builders of the United
Stases cannot compete with those of other
ePuntrles That We have in our country
oo0tiess ooast so NJ as our tariff policy
them. u
This was written when EDITOR Scott
was his own master, and could give his
Intelligence and reasoning faculties a
chance. a week later, Republican
though he was and is, the same editor
wrote this good Democratic doctrine:
We have magnanimously presented to
Great Britain the carrying trade of the
world, and are asked to admit by our own
wise statesmen that the act is one of great
advantage to ourselves.
The fact is, this destructive policy is part
| of the whole scheme OF protection, which
rules our laws for the benefit of the great
eastern manufacturers. Conscious that the
whole system would fail if the false founda-
tons on which it stands were exposed,
| they band together and refuse to allow
l in
want to sell TO Great Britain, but our
tariff prohibits Great Britain from sell
ling to US The laws cannot compel our
citizens to build ships at losing rates but
they can and do force us to pay enormously
high prices for nearly all manufactured
| goods. This is the direct object of pro-
tective tariff. In other words q protective
tariff is ajax levied on imported goods with
a design to raise the price of home COM
modities. Protection is set up as barrier
| to trade. Its OBJECT is to make goods dear.
True, It processes that its object is to favor
home labor. But it defeats itself, because
It's consequences reappear in the higher
prices of all commodities, which the work
man, as well as all others, must consume
Four years ago. on September 21st,
1884. Editor Scott hit the wool tariff
squsrely between the eyes in the follow
ing manner:
"a wool-grower writes to ask if the price
OF wool is not affected by the duty, and
whether it would not be greatly to the inter
est of our wool-growers if the former rate o.
duty were restored. In Oregon the dut!
makes little difference either way. The re
duction of duty on wool. effected by The &C
that passed the last Congress was quite
| small, and in all probability if the amour
| were restored the Oregon wool-grower
would never know it from any change il
the market. Again. wool is governed il
price more largely by its distance from thu
manufacturer and the cost of transporta
ton than by the duty, and hence wool o
like quality sells lower in Oregon than il
London. because it is further from thu
manufacturer. ="
To-Day the Oregonian is trying to max,
its readers believe that the reduc:i Ion o
the duty on wool would be ruin to tn,
sheep industry. Truly the lot of tn,
Republican editor is unenviable. Tn
Chicago convention has much to an
swer for.