The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-22
THEY WILL NOT RETREAT.


Certain Republican newspapers are ad-
vising retreat They urge the Repub-
lican Congress to revise every item Of the
tariff bill before the end of the present
session.
These papers mistake the purpose of the
passage of the MCKINLEY bill. 1t was not
framed in the interest of the people nor
passed for their benefit. The bill was
passed to reward the millionaire mill
owners who had contributed to the Repub-
hcan campaign fund. 1t was passed to
make an alliance between the capitalists OF
the country and the Republican govern
ment at Washington, in order to carry on
an offensive war against the people in the
interest of the rich.
The fact that the bill has injured the
people, makes no difference to the mill
owners. What do they care! What the
people lose, they gain. Moreover, they con-
troll the Republican party, and that party
viii not dare oppose their wishes.
Now, what these mill wish, what
they demand, and what the Republican
party has given them in the Nc
kINLEY bill, is that the farmers of
this country be prevented from exporting
their surplus. This surplus amounts to
$500, 100000 each year. 1t must be exported
and sold or it will go to waste. But if it is
exported the pay for it must return The
pay consists of manufactured goods or of
tropical goods bought in turn with these
manufactures. This importation of manu-
featured goods, or this exchange of these
manufactured goods for other products of
industry, brings the American farmer in
competition with the American mill owner.
1t is this farm competition that manu-
LECTURERS object to, and this is what they
mean when they talk about foreign com
petition. There would be no foreign COM
petition" if the farmers did not raise and
sell surplus, for no product will be sent
away from this country unless products
are brought back in payment for them.
Gold cannot be taken in payment for ex-
ported farm products, because it will not
pay 30 transport gold from countries in
which it is relatively dear to this country,
where gold is relatively cheap.
That is, dollar in gold will purchase
twenty-four pounds of sugar in England.
and but twelve pounds here; or it will pur
chase two yards of silk in France and but
one here. Now, though the government
will not permit the sugar or the silk to be
brought into this country without a heavy
tax on each, yet they may be exchanged
for coffee, rubber and quinine from South
America, and these may be imported In
any case, the import will be goods of some
kind, not gold for gold will purchase less
manufactured goods in this country than
the import of manufactures even after pay
ing the duty
The MCKINLEY bill is intended to shut
out these imports, which are the pay for
the farmers exports. If it succeeds, two
million farmers must quit farming and enter
the employment of the protected manufac-
turers.
The farmers may vote now against pro
lection, but their protest comes too late.
All the voting they do now and for several
years to come will not help them. By
the time the MCKINLEY bill
is repealed, the farm mortgage
viii be foreclosed, and perhaps a half mil
lion Of farmers will be working in protected
mills. They will have been forced to leave
the finest farming lands on the globe in or
der to do the same work as the paupers of
Europe, and at the same wages The re-
volt of the farmers at the late election
must DE amusing to the mill owners. For
the present the farmers must wear the
chains they have forged for themselves. A
Republican Senate and President for at
least two years longer will grant them no
relief; and though in 1892 they NAV vote
with overwhelming majority to GUST the
Republicans, who knows that the fraud of
1876 will not be repeateda
Let no Democrat or farmer deceive him.
self. The Republican party cannot dares
not retreat. The plutocracy of the nation
holds the Republican party by the throat.
and longs to fasten its grasp upon the
throat of the whole nation The battle is
not yet won, it has only just commenced.
A few years more will determine whether
or not there shall be ruling sristocracv
with numerous dependency, or whether
all men shall be free and equal in the Re-
public