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

NEEDS EXPLANATION.
1t might be in order to have the Re-
publicans or the Liberals, or the Lib
erals or the Republicans, or both, to
explain how it is, if it can be, that the
late school election Is called by the Re
publicans Republican victory, and by
The Liberals Liberal victory.
Republican victory in Salt Lake >
the Liberals carry the city" o, how
1 wish Congressman Horn was here
now to explain how It is. There are
men who, but short time ago, made
the confession that they had never in
vestigated national politics, had never
informed themselves as to the workings
Of the tariff usually called protection,
but who are now explaining to the un-
tutored the advantages to be derived
from high protective tariff, and the
higher the better, for the higher the
tariff the more protection we get, and
the more protection we get, the cheaper
can we buy. if we do pay more; and the
more we buy, the higher the wages are,
even if wages are reduced; and the
more we need protection against pau
per labor, and the more pauper
protection we labor, the more
tariff we get, and the more
paupers we get the more we need the
guardian care of a benevolent tariff,
that we may protect the tariff and
at the same time protect the protective
form of the protectionist l tell YOU
they DO explain-it SO that any person
can't understand it.
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Whenever you see a man who will
visit every business place in your city
to ascertain where he can buy the
cheapest, we can bet on the proposition
that he is high tarif1te, and is a
strong believer i'll protective doctrine.
and when he has anything to sell he
will travel over the same ground to
learn who will give him the best price
for his commodity. Now. it would al
most appear that high protectionisl
would prefer to buy in the dearest
market and sell in the cheapest, and
it is just what we are doing.
1t would be the natural result of his
argument, but in actual performance
he forgets his politics and reyerses the
sale and the purchasing advantages
and very carelessly makes of himself
an absolute free trader.
I'm blowed if know whether it is
the correct thing or not, opening a
political convention with PRAYER. IL
spite of all can do to keep down my
risible propensities, a grin will sub
merge my facial expression whenever l
read of the solemn invocation INDUCED
in before the fight begins. There are
but few indulgences in this world that
cannot be made to appear ridiculous,
and it happens when the wrong time
and the wrong place is selected for Il
display OF mans privileges. Now
prayer, in a political convention, seems
to be so much at variance that
cast iron statue will snickeT
just little at the attempt to solemnize
something that never did and never
will take to the solemnizing business.
Then, again, it is hard on the prayer.
No matter how anxious the prayer man
may be to have his intercessions reach
to heaven, the anxiety OF the politicians
1 fSSresent that he wei cut it short, seem2
to me to be Il great hindrance to OBJ
tanning satisfactory results. | do not
suppose, however, that if l held the
formula of fashion in the hollow of my
hand that l would veto the custom, for
the reason that occasionally there will
be found an individual present who ac-
tuallv believes that without the usual,
shall 1 say, petitionary remarks, that
the convention would not pass off in All
appropriate manner. o, well, as it is d
harmless Introductory to more serious
results, l, for one, will submit myself
to fashions claims and rote as seemeth
wise unto me.
Skandinavisk Massemode. Skandi-
naverne of Provo og omegen indbydes
! til ct mode Thursday den 30 te JUL
klocken aften Forste Wards SkOle-
hus.
The above is what read in THE DIS
PATCH of July Goth. My first impress
sion was that some Republican orator
had been explaining the benefits OF pro-
lection, and l had been reading the re-
port of it. 1t was about as satisfac-
tory. and of course | dared to presume
that if it was not a protective tariff
Illustration, then some Liberal had
been explaining the platform of the
Liberal party My wife, l believe, sug-
gested that to her way of thinking, my
second choice was probably the best.
I therefore nailed the explanation to
the masthead and am now waiting
further developments.
My Scandinavian friends might help
me out, but I propose to use the Ian
guage against the common enemy if it
takes all summer.
Do you suppose there is any danger
that BRAxNGAN will be "GAsHed?" 1t
might be well to have the "perlice' out
in the "sp ooky hours = when bats fly to
and fro, and grave yardsyawn. Pro-
lection leads to many an unprotected
protectionist, and it would be pity to
see a staunch defender struck down
and GGShed all to pieces.
I see that the Republican papers
speak of Congressman HoRR as Mich
igan's noted Congressman and then
we are referred to the statesman'S
birth place and education. Us darn
fool Democrats sometimes get prOmis-