The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-17
The Tariff Acrobat.

The accomplished acrobat whose mental
gymnastics astonish and disgust the read
ers OF the Ogden Republican sheet devotes
column of his space to misconstruing the
argument and distorting the language used
by The HERALD demolishing one of the pic
lures produced by the New York Press
one of the series formerly copied by the
Weber county organ without giving proper
credit
The Ogden philosopher alleges that
practically THE HERALD says a countrys
prosperity makes no difference In Its WORK
1ngmen's wages" The HERALD SAID notn-
, ing of the kind, neither practically nor
otherwise. We claimed that wages were
high because this was new country with
matchless resources whose Development
creates a demand for labor and makes
wages high. Wages were high long oeIoIe
We had a barbarously high tarln; wages "a
England were low-lower than IN this
country-long before England had free
trade We claimed that wages
are higher in free trade Eng
land than in protected Germany or
high tariff Austria. If the high tarln war
made wages high in this country, why don't
il have the same effect in Austria or Russla'
II lowering the tariff decreases wages, why
is it that wages nave increased % per cent
in England since il abolished It's protective
tax system! Ii protection makes wages
high, why is il that the highest wages are
paiG in the unprotected industries. And
why is ii that wages are going down WINE
the tariff IS being increased! Why Is IL
that the wage workers have favored labor
unions for The purpose OF keeping wages
high.
land how long" asks the lagerbrains
wilmer of the Ogden BLOlC Hard, would
labor be in demand if the wool raisers,
weavers, iron workers, tin smiths and all
the others were thrown out of employment
by the flooding OF cur markets with the
prison made products of the old world"'
Bless you, child, if all wage workers
We're out of employment: If there were
nothing TO do-well, there would be moth
in, 20 do. If there were no water in this
country for twenty years, America would
be transformed into desert. Selahi
Is it a fact that the tariff has made pos
sible the employment of our workingmen.
Was there no work done when we had
revenue tariff! Had we no factories Is
il not fact That in 1850 we manufactured
IS per cent. OF what we consumed! VIII
the embryonic statesman at Ogden buy
cyclopedia and investigate for himself!
But who proposes to turn the workmen out
OF employment The Democratic party
asks for reduction of tariff taXeS-the
very thing the Republicans have promised
time and again. Will the Ogden gymnast
have the eifrontery to assert that the coun-
vice given by President Arthur and by
many other honest and sensible Repub-
Leans before the fat-fryers and those VINO
paid the tribute had bought the q. o. p.
body, soul and breeches! The Ogden con-
tortionist also wants US TO explain "why
if general prosperity is enhanced and
fostered by certain policy. all classes OF
citizens are not benefited by that policy"
We have no hesitation in admitting
that what will enhance general prosperity
will foster the interests of all that what
is for the benefit of all will benefit each.
But we deny that orr present tariff sys-
TEN, made necessary by war eXigencies, is
a benefit TO ali; we deny that what is a
benefit to one is necessarily for the benefit
of all. Tc rob. Peter for the benefit of
Paul may help Paul, but it does not help
poor Peter. TO tax all for the benefit of
class OF manufacturers who are banded to-
gether in trusts and mOnopoiies and who
instead of dividing tariff made profits with
their working men, soundly rob and OPP
press their employees, is not for the benefit
of all, though IL may be good thing for
the direct benefciaries of tariff spoliation.