The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24

tne farmer has made his farm yield more
this year by working 1t more carefully than
he did last season.
Now. suppose that instead of one farmer
making this profitable bargain with one
Englishman, there are two million farmers
VINO do the same thing, who would be in
iured by it! Not the farmers, certainly
Not the country; for it has simply sent
away wheat that could not be used here
Except for fueD and has received in return
certain things that can be used. Labor iii
the country has not been injured, since as
much of our labor has been given as
foreign labor received. The only thing the
exchange does is that it prevents the wheat
and other surplus products from being
wasted, and gives profitable employment
to two millions of farmers who must other
wise omit their farms and become wage
slaves in the protected mills.
And here is another pathetic effort:
And we do not believe our farmers would be
any better of If the artisans now at work in the
United States were to give up their business
and go out on their farms and still further swell
the agricultural product.
Neither does any one else believe that the
artisans should quit worloin their shops and
go at farming According to the statistical
experts, FORD, ELLIOTT and NEwCoMB, only
about per cent. OF our working population
are in any way protected by the tariff. Not
one of these laborers would be in any way
injured by a reduction of the tariff. Nearly
all our protected industries are exporting
their surplus product, and selling abroad at
profit in competition with foreign labor in
foreign markets. What industry would
stop. Would it be the sugar retineries that
export their refined sugar to London and
sell it at from to AZ cents pound there,
while they sell here for S cents!
Would it be the makers of sewing
machines, whose goods are now selling in
the Liverpool market cheaper than any
where in America where they are made.
Would it be the firms that manufacture
agricultural implements and machinery,
which they sell 'free on board'' in New
York harbor far cheaper at retail than
they do in America at Wholesale? Would it
be the glass manufacturers of New Jersey,
who almost without exception on the day
before CLEvELAND's election stated under
they would have to close up their manu.
factories if CLEVELAND wora elected, and
all of whom vastly increase d their business
during CLEvELAND's administration. Or
would it be the three protected quinine
manufacturers, who In letter to Congress
declared they would close their factories
and discharge their workmen if quinine
should be put on the free list, and the
moment it was put on the free list built
new factories and employed four times their
former number of employees. What arti-
san would quit work. Not even the
riotous imagination of the Tribune editor
can supply US with the name and address
of any firm that will discharge its employ
ees if the tariff is lowered.
And finally the organ insinuates that we
should be like the Chinese and have no
foreign commerce:
All our foreign trade, vast as it is, does not
amount to over per cent. of our whole trade
90 per cent being among our own people.
An excellent reason, we should say, for
destroying the foreign trade-because it is
small. To be sure it amounts to only 800,
0o0,C00 exported and the same amount i'm
ported each year-a mere trifie, so blot it
out altogether. The agricultural part of ii
alone, furnishes daily work and wages for
two millions of able bodied farmers in this
country, so it is of small consequence!
Without it, two million farmers would
stand idle, and also vast numbers of me
chanics and miners.
But over and above these facts, the 'for-
eign trade''nxes the price of every agricult
ural product for salem the home market land
| when the government confiscates one-thir6
of the price received by farmers in the for
eign market, it also by that very act dimin
ishes the price of every agricultural gro
duct for sale in the home market.