The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-05

pie. Tramps filled the land from ocean
to ocean, and laws against tramps were
enacted. The panic of 1878 lasted until
1879. and the suffer ng among our peo-
pie were equal to overcrowded Eurone.
Unemployed wors ingmen was the rule
for seven years, and the protected few
demanded more tax as the remedy,
while they imported foreign paupers in
foreign ships to take the place of Amer
lean woIkinemsD who refused to accept
starvation wages in land that should
be land of plenty, if tax burdens were
justly distributed. How do you like
the picture of the tariff of AZ multiple
by at least two?"
DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE WANTS.
II had no idea that all that was in that
book"
Read it carefully. Only the outline
has been given. Y on said that you al
ways believed in the tariff of 1922"
Yes"
ut is all the protection anybody
needs in this country ?"
YES"
what was the average tariff tax IN
der the law of 1922"
al cannot tell you."
"Hand me that volume on the
Federal Commerce of the United States,
by Mr.. Nimmo. Let US look down this
column on page 20, AID we find it to be
25 per cent, and fraction"
YES that's the figure"
You are willing to stand by that sort
of tariff"
"Of course"
"You don't regard it as free trader"
"No, SIR"
"You wouldn't want to see it any
higher-that's tax enough, isn't it
That's the tariff of AZ, and it is high
enough for me-it's high enough for
any body"
"You say that the Mills bill is free
trader"
Yes, most emphatically."
"Why?"
Because that is what it is called"
"Do you know what the average
amount of tariff tax it provides for 2"
NE"
"OnIy AZ per cent. and fraction;
cut OF 5 per cent. from what it is now"
What"
"Yes. sir; AZ per cent. or II per cent.
more than the tariff of AZ, which is so
satisfactory to you"
We'll, decl1re!"
Haven't you been humbugged into
the belief that the Mills bill means free
trader"
at looks that way"
"Whatdo yon think about it now,
with these facts from your own library
presented to you in an off-hand way?"
81 have about come to the conclusion
thing, and would have been better if it
had cut still deeper. Why, it's an out
rage for party papers and leaders to
| lie SO outrageously about matter
which is so plain when one looks at it
in sensible way"
NOT MILLIONAIRE.
"Mr. Blossom, this is nice farm of
yours; what are your 800 acres worth
at venture 2"
81 guess I'd find no trouble in selling
it for S30,000-it cost N e over half that
without the present improvements -
Chow long has it been worth $780,
CoO?"
twenty-five years atleast."
Have you owned it that long?"
Eyes, for thirty years.
"How much has it yielded you dur
ing the last twenty-five years?"
Il couldn't tell you"
How much money have you in the
bank and at interest now?"
perhaps So 600, all told"
"Do you owe any debts?"
Some; my growing crops and the
stock shall sell would pay my taxes
and square all my accounts, I think"
Then your $50, 900 farm has been pay.
| ing you 5000 year,"
"Ohl more than that!h
"Tell me how?"
i've kept my family during that
time and reared and educated my two
children, q boy and a girl. They are
| both married, and I gave them S. 900
each to set up housekeeping"
"At venture, how much did it cost
you to rear your family and educate
your children ?"
"At guess l will say 0,600"
And You gave them $10,C00?"
Eyes"
"And have $1,000 YOURSELF"
eyes"
"Then you have made $25 900 in
twenty-five years out of your $4,000
farm?"
"That appears to be about the size of
it."
HASN'T GOT RICH.
"You haven't grown rich arming for
quarter of century under high and
b1rdensome tariff taxi"
Certainly not"
"And yet you.began twenty-five years
ago with as much or more capital tha an
any of the milionaires who have be-
come rich under the operation of this
vicious tax system, misnamed 'protec-
tion,' which takes from the m any and
gives to the few. Do you know how
many-or rather how few-men own or
control half the wealth of this country;
who came into ownership or control OF
it under the same vicious tax SYSTEM"
81 have no idea"
81 saw a curious compilation the
other day, and here 1t is: Our total
wealth of all kinds is estimated at $45,-
O0O, 00O,000 There are American citi-
zens with private fortunes averaging
$50 900 900 each, 80 with $10,000,0 900, 100
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