The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-05

"a mel DdSlN IMAM tl1C lCllNlt- VI Nv NAAtN'
Tor public purposes, aud whateYeI
governmental tXactiUn has not thh
Dasls IS tyrannical and unlawful. !
tax on Imports, Therefore, the purpose
0t alch Is not 10 raise revenue. Uut |.
discourage and inGr cily prohlbl
soui- particular inpntt '''t t.e bench
OF some home manufacture. may wei
/ D, q ..e5Jioned as being merei. cJiorabIe
anu, therefore, not warranted by Con
sttutional principles.
Thts,. are Republican opinions con
/ corning he CUmstIiuj lonality 81 tHt
tariff The government baS no ri-ht
cons tituiionally. 10 collect more
money ti,an is Necessary for it, eX-
lenses. and when it seeks 10 DO SO 1t is
on read il has 10 right TO trayel-and
/ that is ID mocratic priuc'ple.
! Now ii is said that the tariff has be, 4
made ior the purpose uf raising the
wages, of lettering the condition 81
Ilhe working man. Has it raised their
wages? Ii is true the wages OF on
country are higher than they are IL
/ Europe: but consider, my friends, the
circumstances. In the first place it Is
/ Shown bv figures that III nearly every
! instance where man receives higher
wages he produces more goods than
are produced in the Old country by the
same amount of work. II is done 10y
SUPERIOR machinery, industry and skill
/ The condition of the old world and The
new world are different. In the old
world the hills have been dOnuded OF
of their forests: the earth has been
robbed of its mines; the soil baS been
robbed over and over again, and Sc
/ the resources ri nature have been eX-
/ hausted IN all directions. Not SO in
this country. The forests have scarcely
/ been cut into, our mines have scarcely
/ been touched, there are lying in this
country great tracts OF land Of
! fresh soil that only re-
uuires cultivation without feTtil-
! izdtion not taken up yet; there Is
more work to be done in this country
and fewer people to do it; the result is
that wages are higher-men are not
competing against each other for en-
plovment, and therefore wages do not
run down. Supply and demand regu'
| late wages.
1t has been proven from advertise
ments OF manufactures OF our country
/ that American made goods are sold
cheaper in foreign countries than In
/ America. A pillow which sells in this
country is advertised in South Amer
/ lea as selling at SO. They do not sell
!l,s-ys in South America for less than
:, costs to make them and freight them
there. Where does the other 50 go to?
/ WHY is the price of plows kept up i'll
America? Does the tariff keep down
T Il = T,,.,ia ,,lnN-GS
We had an eminent Republican ora
tor speaking to US in Salt Lake lately.
No doubt you had him here. He told
us that as the tariff was put on articles
/ the price of these articles went down.
He forgot to tell us why 1t was that a
South American farmer could buy a
plow for So, when farmer IN the
/ United States had to pay SIS for the
self same pillow. He forgot to tell Us a
great many other things. As matter
Of fact the tariff increases the price OF
every article that is taxed by the tariff
I That Is what the tariff fOr.
Suppose you would 90 to the store
and buy % cents worth Of goods. and
a custom house officer would come to
YOU and ask you how much you paid
Tor those goods you would tell him -
cents. and he would ask you 20 cents
additional as a tariff, how would you
feel if you were compelled to pay 1t,
and thus pay IL for those goods2 This
is what the tariff does for you: the only
difference is we do not appreciate OF
realize the fact when we pay the tariff.
[ WAS Just thinking the other day
that if "a farmer would real ze-we will
| suppose he buys four hundred and fifty
dollars worth of Goods upon which
there is tariff and suppose that the
tariff tax is only thirty-three and a
third pr cent. average, which is much
lower than the average tax as has been
proven time and again, he pays one
hundred and fifty dollars of the four
hundred and fifty dollars as tariff tax
uDon the goods. Suppose that farmer
raises thirty bushels of wheat to the
acre. and sells it Tor seventy cents Il
bushel. He would get out OF that twenty
one dollars on each acre and to pay
The one hundred and fifty dollars 1t
would take aS many acres as twenty
one goes into one hundred and fifty,
little over seven acres OF ground that
the farmer must cultivate, put into
crops, water, SOW. reap, thresh, III a
wear. nav the taxes the tariff imposes,
on the four hundred and fifty dollars
worth of goods himself and family
uses in the year. This, in addition to
all of the other taxes, he pays, such as
territorial county nd municipal taxes,
Ladies and gentlemmen, this might
be continued, but there are other
sneakers and | find | have occupied
sufficient time.
The chairman next SntrOduced
HON. F. s. RICHARDS.
Mr.. Chairman ladies and gentlemen:
When | arrived in your beautiful city
this evening at the close Of long cam
paign in which l have spoken at many
meetings held in different cities Of the
territory, | felt weary and worn out.
But when saw the magnificent scenery
here and the soul cheering sight OF the
narade with thousands OF loyal citizens
out. when heard the strains of music
from your band, and when l came into
the house and beheld this sight OF
beauty and beaming intelligence, was
refreshed and wondered what l could
say that would be of interest to you.
You have listened to the eloquence of a
Judd, the oratory and reason OF a King,
the logic of Paul, and last
to the telling remarks OF my colleague,
and | wonder now what | will be able
to saw to you. You have met here not
only to hear the questions OF difference
between the two parties discussed, but
YOU have also met to ratify that grand
ticket which you see here at the back.
Tremendous applause.
know some OF the entlemen whose
names are on that ticket, / wish
| had the time and the ability
TO do justice to them. The gentleman
who leads the legislative part OF the
ticket, Hon. VIM. II. King. defeaning
apJausel Is man | well know. He is
well known in the homes OF Utah as a
defender OF the rights of the people.
/ Applause have listened to the
words OF eiuquence that came burning
! from his heart, to the golden words OF
mas. erly and powerful logic. full oi
meaning and reason that fell from his
lips. You know now keen he is in
/ logic, how valianily he has fought fol-
YOU in the past, you know how he has
stood byyou ut the bar. and how on
TINS platform and elsewhere, aye even
at the seal OF Government, he ha stood
up man1ully and defended the rights OF
/ the people. need not speak words Of
enc0nium on him; bis integrity is
not only known 10 tue Demo