The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-07

production Of gold and silver in the whole
United States was $3.50, 100000. Observe
that the Tribune gives the gold product OF
California alone for only ten years as lover
SUI, 00O,0o0 .") The production of gold and
silver in the United States during the next
twenty years, from 1850 to 1880, was 81, 200,
000000.
| IL six hundred millions caused a remark
able prosperity during fourteen years,
whatkind of prosperity should be caused
By thirteen hundred millions during twenty
years. That is a problem that only PAGE,
MURRAY returning board, or scribe OF
the Tribune. could answer in the manner
the sheet has answered it in the quotation
given above.
1t is idle to suppose the Tribune man had
the statistics of gold and silver production
Tor the fourteen years only. He had ali tie
statistics and deliberately suppressed one
half Of them
Ihere Is another part of the Tribunes
ialterlng reply, however, that is equally
characteristic OF that organ. 1t is this:
Why did THE HERALD omit the decade be-
tween 1850 and 1870, in which the country pros
pered exceedingly:
This question was written to deceive
those who had not seen THE HERALD
article. Hence, we quote a few sentences
from the article in question to show how
The HERALD ''omitted' the decade from
1860 to 1870. This is what we said:
1.-THE decade from 1860 to 1870 was the
period of transition from free trade to pro-
lection. 1t may be necessary to
state that the estimates for the total
wealth of 1870 and 1880 include all property
taxed and untaxed. The tables of total
wealth given for 1850 and 1860 include only
taxed property. This explains the appar-
ent increase in the national wealth during
the war period from 1860 to 1870. Actually
there was decrease during this period.
Only about half the property of the United
States is taxed; the other half escaped the
enumerators of 1850 and 1860 But in 1870
and 1880 the other untaxed half was esti-
mated from the returned value of the taxed
property
That is the way in which THE HERALD
omitted" to mention the decade from 1860
to 1870; but the bewildering cheek of a pro
tectionist who maintains that since wealth
increased faster (as he foolishly claims)
during war period of moderate tariffs,
than during peace period of high tariffs,
therefore the higher the tariff the faster
the increase-such bewldering cheek, we
say, is met more properly with ridicule
than with argument. If it could be shown,
as it cannot, that wealth increased faster
during the war than during peace, the in
crease could as well be claimed for free
trade as for protection; for the period was
one of transition from,free trade to protec-
ton, the final and most CALLING of the pro
lection chains having been riveted upon
the people in 1867
1t would be cruel to pursue the Tribu,1e's
historical follies much further; but we
invite the editor, who in each article claims
to "have got beyond the a, b, of the tariff
question:" to name the fourteen or fifteen
countries that he says have tried free
trade. After naming those countries
(they do not exist, hewever), he is invited
to study these figures once more and to
answer them now, and not say he will an
sWer Them again some time.''