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

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more Democrats in the Union army
than there were Republicans. They
take the army roll The names OF men
gone TO the trouble to ascertain the
political faith the bearers of those
names believed in. 1t has been proven
that there were over quarter of mil
lion more Democrats that Republicans
among those fighting valiantly and
braveiy in and for the Union army.
FEW WORDS ON TARIFF.
l know you have heard IA good deal
said about the tariff. but I'll try and not
weary you. In the first place L want to
say to you that this government collect
ed last year 81 200, 900 600 of tariff. Did
all this 90 into the treasury of the Unit
ed States Two hundred million went
to the government and ten hundred
million went into the pockets of the
manufacturers. We have population
Of sixty-hye millions. Less than ff-
teen thousand OF this population are
manufacturers. In other words each
four thousand Of our population are
paying tribute to one manufacturer.
Richard 0 Mills, the man who has
had 50 much to say and do with the
tar # question for the Democrats, says
the tariff tax amounts to seventy-three
per cent. In other words you pay for
every actual dollars VOL tn of goods you
buy, one dollar and seyenty-three
/ cents.
! will endeavor to show you by a lit
tie bill OF goods we will imagine our
selves buying, how this average is esti-
mated. OF course the stOrekeeper Will
not tell you in words about the amount
of the tariff but We Will suppose he
does and by the time We get through
With this bill we Will see what the tar
does Tor us palmer than l could tell
you in any other way.
| We purchase g suit of clothes, which
| The storekeeper says he can not sell for
less than twenty one dollars. How
yer, If the tariff was not imposed he
| could sell it for ten dollars. That is,
our suit of clothes is worth ten dollars /;
We pay a tariff tax of tel dollars We
next buy hat for one dollar and sixty
cents. The hat is worth one dollar;
ariff tax is sixty cents. The next ar
ticle is a shirt, costing two dollars,
.orth one dollar, tariff tax one dollar
Some socks for sevenUy-ive cents,
worth twenty-five cents, tariff tax fifty
cents. UnderN ear for two dollars and
SeYenty-tive cents, worth one dollar
tariff tax one dollar and Seyenty-tiye
cents. Dress goods for two dollars and
| thirty five cents. worth one dollar,
| tariff tax one dollar and thirty-tiye
cents. And now, we need d few lamp
chimneys. Those we have selected the
siOrekeeper says, that as 1T is a pretty
| BIG bill, lie will share his profits with
US and let us have the lot for five dol
lars and fifty cents. The chimneys,
however, are worth actually only one
dollar, tariff tax four dollars and
| fifty cents. This little bill amounts to
thirty- eight dollars and titty-fye cents.
| Oar goods would have been sold to lis
| for seventeen dollars and twenty-five
cents if the manufacturer, that reat
| pet of the Republican party. had not in
| the name OF the government mulcted
us out of twenty-one dollars and thirty
cents; and this in addition to allowing
a fair and reasonable profit for his work
and investment.
What excuse do these people offer
for this? The tax is the highest on
those things we use most. The poor
men pay the burden of this tax. You
pay tax from the cradle to the grave,
and somebody pays tax on your coffin
and gravestone after you are gone.
The Republican writer's say that ii
yOa don't have this tax, the manufactO
Ties would close and great many peo-
pie would be discharged. Is it true?
Unfortunately for the Republican par
ty, no. Three of the highest authori-
ties in the United States have certified
to the government that less than five
per cert of the United States ale under
protection and if absolute free trade
were to be introduced not seven per
cent of the industries would feel it.
We demand that there shall be tar
if tax. We say there should be an in
come tax sufficient to support the gov
eminent. 1t is absolute fallacy When
Republicans tell you it is necessary
for the existence of these industries. 1t
is simply that much money taken from
the pockets of our citizens for no lawful
purpose. They say it goes to the work
ing men. There are men III industries
claimed to be protected working for
forty-five cents day. The best show
ing that can be made for protection is
that the labor done by machinery gets
$4,000 week as protection from the
tariff, whereas the labor done by human
flesh and bones in the highest protect
ed industries get but S2.75 per week
Inventions, increased skill and ability
have made conditions such that more
goods are now produced by the
same labor-this brings the price
down. The tariff never has,
never will and never can reduce the
price of goods. 1t must, does, and can
not help but increase the price.
One of the men who Is engaged in
the manufacture of steel and iron iu
the United States. and who is very So
iicitous for the welfare of the working
men, is making out of the tariff one and /.
IA half million dollars Il year-upt ards /.
OF i've thousand dollars day. Well /
might he spend time writing, or money |
having written aud published PAM I
phlets converting voters to Republi /
canlsm Less than quarter OF quar- /
ter of a century ago there were fewer I
than ten milionaireS in this country, |
and to-day there are ten thousand mil /
lionaires. Twenty -tive thousand men
now have more wealth in this country
than all The balance of the sixty five |
1lIIIlh VI IiluJ- anu dIG you
not appalled,?
We do not believe in this. We be
Iieve in every man making money
What we object to is this:
That the government shall take man
by the throat, tie his hands ana let
these aristocratIt millionaires shove
their hands into his pockets and rob
him of his money.
If you desire the welfare of this ter
,itory, if you desire her to become the
oroudest gem in the galaxy of states
t you desire her to take her seat
eventually in grandeur among her
sisters with all her glory as one of the
greatest commemorative III this land,
hen without 1oubt you will show your
lesires by voting that ticket. Pro-
onged applause.
DIR. w. r. PIKE.
Chairman Dusenberry explained that '
because of the sickness of Dr. Pike,
Democratic nominee for representative
rom the eleventh district, the COM
nittee had almost failed to secure bis
presence, but they were proud to an +
Iounce that they had persuaded him ;
nd that he would address the meeting Z
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