The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-12
TO THINK OVER.

haIlOu independent OF the word"
Touching the first object, we may remark
that without any MCKINLEY bill the taxes
collected by the government had exceeded
the necessary expenses of the government
over one hundred million dollars in a sin
gle year. The MCKINLEY bill is entitled,
IA Bill to Reduce the Revenues Re-
publicans estimated that it would reduce
the revenue of the government about $780,
100000 year, and one of them said in the
House that the reduction would be so great
as to prevent the payment of the pensions.
Further, no one objects at all to so much of
taxation on imports as is necessary to raise
money for the expenses of the government.
Thls talk about the MCKINLEY bill being
merely revenue measure is intended to
distract attention from the real nature and
intent of the new law
AS to the second point, that the bill is in
tended to make this country 'sself-support-
ing" what does the organ mean by thats
Does 1t object to being supported by others,
II they are willing? Why should any man
object to other people supporting him!
But is there any danger that other peo-
pie will support US? Do we not have to
support ourselves whether we trade with
others or not! The Tribune is afraid that
other people will work for Us free of charge
and support us. 1t is afraid foreigners
will give US something for nothing. and is
Mortified at the idea of our people receiving
goods from foreigners who refuse to take
any pay for them. The organ seems to
think that Europeans have entered into
conspiracy to offer US goods for nothing.
1t pretends not to know that foreigners
will not let US have their goods unless we
let them have ours. Every dollars worth
OF goods that come in means that we have
sent out dollars worth of our goods in
payment for them. We receive no goods
that our own labor has not earned When
we send sewing machines to London and
finally receive coffee from Rio Janeiro in
payment for them, we have earned the
coffee; we have produced 1t just
waited the earth and grown it here, in
stead of making sewing machines and
exchanging them for the coffee. But it
would take ten times as much capital and
labor to raise the amount of coffee on our
soil that we get for one sewing machine;
and If we refuse to take the coffee the
English will have to work harder for sew
ing machines, the Brazilians will work
harder for English cutlery, and we shall
work ten times harder, or longer, for the
same amount of Rio coffee we before re-
ceived for sewing machine. This is what
protectionists mean when they say thew
want to furnish more work for our own
people, by compelling them to produce di
rectly all they consume, instead of OBJ
tanning some things by exchange with
other countries. This does furnish more
work, but it doesn't furnish more paw.
This makes US independently of other ma
tons by compelling US to work longer to
accomplish the same result as before. Our
coffee would cost US ten times more: we
should have to work ten DAYS then for the
some amount of coffee that we get now for
one days work; we should have more
work, to be sure, and less pay in proper
ton If the object is to make our people
work more no better scheme could be de-
vlsed than to compel them to make with
their own hands everything they consume.
The way we supply our wants at present
is by making such things as we can make
easily and cheaply, with as small an ex-
penditure of labor and capital as possible.
Our rich, broad country furnishes many
opportunities for the enrichment of our
selves; and the product Of one days labor
in America is exchanged for the product of
two days labor in Europe A bushel IF
wheat costing one days labor here is ex-
changed for piece of cloth that would
cost two days. labor if made here. The
cheaper the foreigner will work for US. the
more we shall make by hiring him; for we
always pay him in the products of our own
labor and in nothing else We export each
year CO,000,0 900 worth Of our goods. the
products of our labor, and import each year
s7CO,C0O,OoO worth of foreign goods, the
products of foreign labor; and the
latter is worth much more in our coun-
try than in Europe where the above price
is set on it,
BAsTIAT tells of the petition of the
French manufacturers of candles, wax
lights, chandeliers, retiec.ors, shutters, ex-
tinguishers; and of the producers of tai
low, oil, resin, alcohol, and generally of
everything used for lights They repre-
sented to the Chamber of Deputies that
they were subjected to the intolerable com
petition of foreign rival, who enjoyed, it
would seem, such superior facili-
ties for the production of light
that he was enabled to inundate the
national market at so exceedingly reduced a
price, that the moment he made his ap-
pearance he drew off all custom from them;
aud thus an important branch Of French
industry, with all its innumerable ramifica-
tons, was suddenly reduced to state of
complete stagnation. This rival, who was
no other than the sun, carried on so bitter
war against them, that they had every
reason to believe that he had been excited
to this course by their perfidious neigh5or
England
Their petition was that the Chamber
should pass law ordering the shut
ting up of all windows, dormers, skylights,
shutters, curtains, vasistas, in a word, all
openings, holes, chinks and assures through
which the light of the sun might penetrate
dwellings to the preiudicial competition of
manufacturers of artificial light
They showed how the Matchmaking in
dustry would be stimulated by such law,
how many men would be given employ
ment, how much tallow would be con-
sumed, with the corresponding increase of
the cattle and sheep industry; they demon
strated the increase of olive growing, of
Bookkeeping, of navigation, of every indus
try, in fact, by the demand for labor that
mustfollow the enactment of the law.
This was the most consistent protection
ist demand that could have been made: for
here was rival that worked for nothing