The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-06-13
HIS ARGUMENT AGAINST HIM.

HIS ARUU MENT AUAlNSI HIM.
In an editorial published in the Re
publican organ of this city ON Wed
nesdaY evening, under the heading,
Benefits of Protection, - the reader is
invited to investigate an array of fig
ures which the writer terms ''truth-
full" Let us see whether such is the
case or not. He says:
The United States produces annual
ly manufactured goods to the amount
of 81, 900 .000,000 To get this manufac-
tured there is paid in wages to the
laborers, ST, 400, 100000, while to the
same number of Workmen in England
land that country pays better wages
than any other except the United
States) are paid but 1874, 900 900 for the
manufacture of the same amount of
goods; hence the excess of wages in
the high sum of $6l6, ,000 900. Now
compare the amount OF tariff of the
country, amounting to something like
1920 100000, and ask yourself If the
laborlng class can stand this small tax
admitting the Democrats are right in
calling it a taxi, to uphold their high
standard of wages? Why, kind reader.
the labOring class, if called on to pay
this tax ~ themselves, would still
have balance in their favor of 1885,,
000.00 better wages than the working
men of England.
If the 1920, 100000 paid into the Fed
eral treasury, as shown by the above
figures, was the only amount paid by
American workingmen, then the Dem
ocratic party would not object to this
taxation, that is, admitting the above
figures to be true. But what are the
real facts? They are these: That for
every dollar that goes into the Federal
treasury, five dollars go into the poek
cts of the manufacturers of this cOun-
try, this being tax levied on one
class of American citizens to support
another class. Now, then, this being
the case, let us multiply the sum paid
into the Federal treasury, this $780,
100000, by these five dollars which go
to the manufacturer, and what do we
have? Why we are confronted with
the sum of 81 1000 100000. Now, then,
add this startling sum to the 1920, ,000,-
900 which goes into the treasury, and
we have the sum of ST ,320, ,000, ,000l and
this is a low estimate of the amount paid
by the people, for the facts show that
at least sac times as much is paid to the
American manufacturers under the
gulab of protection! So that instead
of leaving 1896, ZOO, 600 better wages
than the Workingmen of England get,
dedlIct the true figures of $794 900 900,
and you have the American working
men in the hole to the tune of $780,
100000. If'any man wants to contra
dict these figures, let us ask him what
the protective tariff is for, if it is not
to give the American manufacturer
protection in price over the foreign
manufacturer? We use six times the
manufactured goods that we do foreign
pose that we pay six times as much tax
on the home manufactured goods as on
the foreign? The tax on the foreign
goods imported INTO this country goes
into the treasury, while the tax on the
home manufactured goods goes into
the pockets of the bloated manufac-
turers and trust syndicates.
The writer makes comparison with
Germany. AS Germany IS a heavily
protected country his argument is
a ainst him. But let us ask this
would-be statesman, if he imagines
that a protective tariff benefits labor
one nickel? If he does he is badly
mistaken, for supply and demand and
density of population, control the
price of labor in the entirety. His
figures regarding Germany prove this
assertion conclusively, and if he will
make the comparison little farther,
and take Russia, the highest protected
country on earth, he will find that
there the lowest wages known any
where are pal England being 22O
times per square mile as densely popu-
lated as the United States, is not
just comparison; but when he COM
pares England with Germany, his
are just, and by perusing
his figures, the reader finds that the
is in favor of the free
trade country, Germany being
highly protected country, and yet not
as densely populated as England.