The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-03
AN ILLUSI RATION.

nation ought to be like family; it ought
to discriminate in favor of it's own people,
When it does not it will get left. 1t will lose
caste and it will lose money Tribune.
Old Uncle SAMUEL STATES has large
family of twenty sons. Many of them are
married, and they all live in Uniontown
They number sixty-iive all told. One of
the sons is a tailor, another blacksmith
and another keeps a grocery store. The
other seventeen are employed in various
occupations, all trying to earn living for
themselves. Several of them are farmers
who would be glad to sell their produce to
could make satisfactory arrangements
with them in the way of trade. But the
old gentleman has very peculiar notions on
that subject. He tells them, 'All right;
sell all you can for cash, but don't you take
anything you need for your families from
them in exc ange.'' The result is that
they sell all they can in Uniontown and soon
overstock the market, so that their crops
do not Weld profit Nor is this all. Uncle
SAMUEL tells them that even if they have
ready money they shall not buy anything
with it outside. If they want clothes they
must go to their brother JIM for them,
even if he charges them 40 per cent, more
than the Bulltown tailor would charge If
they want wagons they must buy them of
JoHN who charges 80 per cent, more for
them than the Sawneyville mechanic, 50
that they cannot do any freighting out of
town because their wagons are SO dear, aud
if they want groceries they must go TO
TON, who, having the market to himself,
charges 50 per cent, more than the pri, e
either in Bulltown or Sawneyville.
1.-The reason for this is" he says, "that l
don't want you to bring their pauper abor
into competition with our own
But" says CHARLEY, II am a farmer
and don't see how their pauper labor af
fects me- and why l should pay JIM, JOHN
and Tom so much money for what can get
so much cheaper elsewhere. :"
Nor I, either,n says NED, the mason
Nor l." says BILL, the plumber
Nor - Join IN the carpenter, the brick
maker, the car driver, the shoemaker, the
dentist. the lawyer, the doctor, the parson,
the editor, and all the ba.ance of the sew.
enteen who see no reason why they should
be called upon TO support The favored three
Now, this is exactly the condition Of
things in the United States. BY the cen.
sus of 1880 there were q, 0J0, 900 people here
engaged in the various industries and pro
fessions. They arc al enumerated in
''SPoFFoRD's Almanac" Examine the lis
carefully and you will find that by the ut
most stretch of allowance not 900, 600 Of
the whole are engaged in any occupation
dependent upon protection" Moreover
many of this minority would be better OF
and their number would be increased by
reduction of the tariff Consider that III,
miners are very small proportion of the
men who work in iron in Pennsyl
vania; that the sheep growers of Ohio ar
; few in number compared witt the men VIII
work in WOODEN factories. Cheaper for
eign iron and cheaper foreign wool woul,
vastly increase the number of those opera
tives TO whom protection is really baue
Still further, taking the balance tina
would remain Of the labOring me,
mot Of the small fraction of employer
who are in truth the only men benetitte
by protection) it will be found that the nv
erage of their wages is very much lowe
than that of the vast majority of laborer
who derive no benefit whatever from pre-
lection, but whose expenses are enol
mously increased not to keep ''paupe
labor'' away from themselves nor from an
part of the minority of rominally protecte
laborers, but solely to roll UP the profits
the many, though In comparison with tt
whole population, the infinitessimal few
to whom protection is really an advantae
for which they can afford to pay LIBERAL
: to subsidized press and to an electio
3 fund.