The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-24
A TARIFF DOCUMENT.

The tariff docume nt which is distributed
with to-day's issue of THE HERALD is a re-
markably fine campaign paper.
On the illustrated side is shown how
the protected manufacturers plumber the
American public by charging higher prices
for the goods they sell in this country than
for those they sell abroad. This fact is
proved to a demonstration, and shows that
the protected American firms would go
right on if they had not a cent of protec-
ton. Much less would single one OF
them close its doors IL the tariff tax were
merely reduced as the Democrat reformers
propose that it shall be-
On the other side, the farmer is shown
how he has been fooled on the wool tariff;
how, according to the Home Market club.
the most influential of Republican organ
izations, the price of his wool under pro-
lection is lower than it would be if wool
were free.
1t is next shown why farming no longer
pays in the United States as it did in the
palmy era of prosperity prior to the war
the golden age OF the Republic during
which every industry thrived, while the
prosperity of the American farmers was
the wonder, admiration and envy of the
whole world.
Then the reciprocity swindle on the
farmer is explained. 1t is shown that The
surplus farm products of the United States
sent to Europe are partly paid for in South
American products. That is, American
farm products are turned into European
manufactures by exchange and sold
to South Americans, for which the
latter send US tropical products
in payment for manufactures we
bought with our farm surplus and sold to
them. Reciprocity will shut out these
European manufactures, bought with our
farm surplus, from South American mar
kets, so as to give this market to American
mill owners. Our manufacturers will gain
this market and Our farmers will lose it.
Mr. Blaine shrewdly calls steel rail
bushel of wheat, and a sewing machine a
barrel of pork, for no one knows better
than he that South American countries
buy manufactured goods chiefly and have
farm products FOR sale
That the tariff is a tax and that Ameri-
cans pay it, propositions that for twenty
years and over nearly every true Republi-
can has vehemeDtly denied, are facts that
the article demonstrates with the keen
sarcasm of facts and figures.
1t will pay every reader to study this
paper. He will learn from il more about
projection in few minutes than if ne
studied volumes of ordinary matter on this
subject. Though the tariff is there dis
cussed from the farmers standpoint, the
matter is equally important to every wage
Garner In the whole field of industry Ag-
riculture is the basis of the prosperity of
this country, fully three -ffths of our pop
ulation being directly or indirectly sup
ported by it. The tariff is best discussed
at the outset with reference to its effect on
the greatest of our Industries, that of agri-
culture.
The tariff document advances NO theories
whatever, but presents facts only. From
these the reader may draw his own conclu-
sions, and however much men may profess
to differ over the lesson taught by this
one thing is certain: no one
can differ with the facts as there presented
from official sources.