The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-07-25
EDITORIALS.
RIGHT KIND OF TALK.

The Logan Journal has been pouring
some hot shot into the Republican or
gan OF that town. 1t appears Prof.
PAUL has been to the Temple City OF the
North and converted all buta corporal S
guard of the people Of Cache county to
Democracy. This reused the Nation,
and, it representing a "strong govern
ment, die not stoop to misconshue a
little in order to convey the impression
that Prof. PAUL misrepresented the
facts. The Republican paper said:
Prof. PAUL deliberately lett the i'm
preston on his audience that those
| tariff figures showed how much more
farmers paid for the articles than they
should and how much they are robbed.
| Ii anybody was momentarily so delu-
| ded it is only necessary to advert to the
| TACT that some of these Identical aTti-
Giles can be bought for actually less
than the tariff alone, say nothing OF the
| cost Of manufacture as in the case OF
salt, while all of them can be bought
| for less than first cost and tariff
added"
The Journal then adds:
For example sugar. Its price in this
country now is exactly hall cent the
present tariff tax plus the cost of
freight, higher than in England. The
price i'll England is about four cents;
! the price here IS about i've cents at our
sugar relineries. Formerly, with the
tax OF 81 cents on refined and two cents
on raw sugar the price was from S to
/ u cents here, and from to ) cents
abroad.
The salt item is insignificant. We do
not use on our tables, TO state it far
within the truth, one dollars worth OF
salt where we use fifty dollars worth
! OF sugar. Ii the price of salt is not en-
! nauced by the tariff tax II Is because OF
] our vast beds OF mountains ui salt,
not because OF a tax on salt. The salt
producers may be too numerous TO
combine, and that is all there is TO the
silly assertion that the tax on salt
makes salt cheaper.
Pig iron is another example. 1t sells
for 1912 more per ton in this country
than it does abroad, that being the
amount of the tax per ton.
Sewing machines furnish other ex-
ampleS. Even those made in this
country are sold cheaper i'll England
| than they are here.
Wooden clothing OF all kinds is an
other example. The suit that costs
$40 here, custs $40 there. Stockings.
WOODEN underwear, shawls and blankets
differ in price here and abroad in the
same manner. If anyone desires cor
robOration OF this statement let him
ask any person recently from England
who bought clothing there.
The same IS true OF steel rails, and OF
the thousands of manufactures in iron
and steel. Once in a while the mem
berS of the steel rail trust quarrel
among themselves and the prices fall
for few days almost as low as the
foreign prices. But these cases are
rare; The quarrel is quickly settled and
prices ra lse again.
Linens are twice higher here than
abroad; so are silks and most kinds OF
cotton goods.
Hammers. saws, planes and thous-
ands of implements are dearer here
than they are abroad. Paper, station
cry, toys, carpets, furniture, glass, sill
verware, crockery, chlnaware, IN fact
all the great staple articles OF manutac-
ture cost much more here than they dc
abroad. And when the Republican
organ tells us the price of salt in this
country of salt lakes, salt mountains
salt beds 2ud salt springs, and Says
the low price is due to the TAX on salt
when it talks of wire nails but does
not dare to give the foreign price OF
wire nails or of any other nails-sO
that comparisons cannot be made-it
writes itself down as the same brilliant
philosopher as it was two days age
when it denounced the Democratic
party because, it said, if no revenue
were needed that party would be i'll
favor of no taxes at all.
The following is another characters
tic Republican argument:
In Holland, an ideal free trade coun-
try. suit OF clothes can be bought g
few dollars cheaper than in the United
States, because the w0rkmen perform
their labor for less wages, but then
working people make 50 little they axe
forced TO live entirely Oh diet OF pc
tatoes and bacon.
The people of Holland live in little
country OF limited natural wealth. Om
country is hundred times larger anC
richer III natural resources. That Oul
people are not many times richer thar
the thrifty Dutch is largely due to tn!
fact that our government places muci
heavier burdens upon us.
We frequently hear the same com
parison made between this country anC
0vercfoWded England with her 5l7 PEG
pie per square mile. But the Republi
cans carefully conceal the fact that il
free England wages are higher than il
any protected country in Europe. Com
pare Germany and England, the latte
being by far the more densely popu
lated.
The following table OF wages pail
weekly in the countries is to be founC
on page 1888, Vol. ii of the report g
the United States Tariff Commission