The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-06-17
THAT RALLY.

1t must have been little depressing
to the spirits Of those enthusiasts OF
our city, who have been saying that
provo is overwhelmingly Rerabli-
can, y to witness the want of enthusi-
asm among the many at the rally in
the Opera House on Monday evening.
The speakers on the stage made more
noise than all others. Not more than
ten in the body of the house greeted
the speakers even with clap of the
hand. From a Republican view, no
doubt some good points were made.
Mr.. MORGAN is ready and strong
speaker. But Republicanlike he only
skinned the silyery surface. In COM
pairing the educational status of the
Democratic with the Republican
States he failed to mention New
York, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts,
and others, which are noted for their
enlightenment and civilization as
Democratic, and that as the North
ern and Eastern States are becoming
broader and deeper in learning and
science they are one by one falling in
with Democracy. He didn't mention
the fact that the great cities of New
York, Chicago, Boston, st. Louis, etc.
the very centres of learning, are and
have been for a long time ''overwhelm-
ingly" Democratic.
In those Southern States, where
such high percentage of illiteracY was
shown, Mr.. MORGAN didn't say, as he
should have done, that the 80 or 40 or
80 per cent of illiterate persons was
composed almost wholly of negroes
who are all Republicans, and that if
the blacks were counted out those
States would stand on a par with their
northern neighbors.
Another fact was overlooked. 1t is
conceded by all that nearly every col
lege president and professor in the
country is Democrat. Every writer
on political economy, so far as we have
ever found, is solid against the tariff
system. And why? Because any one
who figures out the scheme comes to
the same conclusion, whether he will
or not" as great writer says, just
as you would find out how much you
could get for given quantity Of wheat
at a given price bushel. The process
would carry you to the correct result
whether it suited you or not. So with
this tariff problem. Anyone can fig
ure it out for himself and show the in
justice and inequality of the present
system.
And Judge BENNETT, able man
though he is, really stultiied himself
in his argument. In one breath
he was descanting on the beau
ties of the protective tariff, and
showing how it enabled home indus
tries to thrive among us. In the next
he was reading long columns of figures
to prove that protection makes goods
cheaper, that protection don't protect.
In UDe QGSD INSTANCE ne IellS US D1aG by
putting a duty on imports, prices are
raised and our home industries are
enabled to build up business by rea-
son of the increased price, and this
we have always been led to believe
was the real object of a tariff. But
he knocks the very foundation out of
this hypothesis when he reads
those figures. His argument is on
a parallel with the Enquirer'S tin
plate article of a few nights ago, when
it asserted that our importers had
been paying S4.15 per box for tin plato,
but since the MCKINLEY bill was go
ing into effect 1t was being imported
at 1886. And now under the protec-
ton we would be able to build up tin
plate factories all over our country.
In other words, when it was imported
at S4.15 our manufacturers were
crushed, but when it is sold at So. 3.35,
factories will spring up all over the
country like mushrooms. Seel
Well, our Republican friends are in
bad box, and we must not deal too
severely with that meeting, nor with
our evening contemporary.