The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-25

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with greater energy and skill than those of
any other country. The American laborer,
whether native born or adopted, works
with his brains as we'll as with his hands,
and the result of his toll in the same pur-
suits for the same time, more than COM
pensates his employer for the higher wages
he receives.
OUR CONDITION AND CAPABILITIES.
Our real condition ought to be apparent
to every one. We have invented labor pro-
duclng machinery until the capacity of our
workmen has increased seven-fold We
are more than capable of supplying our
people in many lines, and especially with
agricultural products. One-fourth of our
agricultural laborers at least have no mar
| ket at home. They are prohibited from
profitable Trading with the people of for
elgn nations who have neither the lands
nor the soil upon which to ralse their food.
why should this be done! If permitted
1t viii enlarge consumption as well as pro-
duction; relieve our congested market and
stimulate domestic as well as foreign
trade The contracted idea of pro-
Economists that foreign trade i'm
pairs the consumption of domestic
products is great error; the very opposite
Is true. Foreign gives vigor and strength
to domestic trade and they rise and fall to-
gether. Foreign is but enlarged domestic
trade; restrict it abroad and you have re-
stricted it at home; prohibit it abroad aud
you have prohibited it at home.
RESTRICTIONS AND BURDEN UPON LABOR
The destructive influences of a protec-
tive tariff are too patent to be longer con-
cealed. They are burning realities. Re-
puollcanS with brains knew this fact and
sought to rescue their party from hopeless
defeat BY digging another pitfall into which
they hoped the people would rush. They
would have US believe that they have not
only token the sting out of the Mckinley
law, by the reciprocity clause, but that
unuer that provision they are fast building
up foreign market the like OF which was
never dreamed of before. What is this re-
: markable provision! Simply, that unless
countries exporting sugar, coffee, mo
lasses. tea and hides shall enter into
commercial arrangements with US the
PRESIDENT OF the United States shall have
the power to issue proclamation restoring
the duties on such articles | have heard
OF people who become so enraged at others
that they would pull their own hair and
! butt their heads against the wall, but this
Is the tirst time within my knowledge that
, legislative body ever enacted law au-
thorlzlng the executive officers of
| the government 10 inflict pun
lshment upon their own people
because of the obstinacy of foreign
governments. The pretense of enactiug
this provision to open up additional mar
kets Tor our farmers is on par with every
, other artlhce to which they have resorted
SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
We produce the greatest surplus of pro.
Visions and breadstuffs of all the nations
suppose by agreements of this kind we
could control the entire trade of Brazil,
, Cuba and Porto Rico, OF what benefit
, would it be to the farmersl We already
| Nt,.n, ,t%h
, part OF these products which they import
and II we should succeed in forcing out all
, competitors would we not meet the pro-
ducts thus displaced in other countries!
The reduction in the rates of duty upon
American wheat, flour and meats will not
enhance their value; the supply is too
great and the emand in these countries
100 small to affect the markets
otherWlse than to lower the
, price to consumers. The reciprocity
clause of the Mckinley law, however, in
: cludes other products, manufactured as
well as agricultural, and here is the enemy
} that Is secreted in this pretended Offering.
= Under the treaty made with Brazil our
, manufacturers secure the removal of
duties, averaging about 80 per cent on
: mining and mechanical tools, opening to
5 them Tree market of the value of over
S2,5OO,OOO. They secure au advantage of
/ % per cent. of the rates on other products
2 opening to them market worth over
S3o, OOO,O OO, while the farmers are given a
> Tree market Tor flour, wheat being on the
Tree list, opening TO them market con
3 Stunning ESOJCOO worth OF products more
t than they ready supplied, and reduction
r OF 20 per cent. on other products, opening
D to them market consuming little over
a S3,OOO,GOO more of their supplies. The
/ farmers are ven an advantage in g
/ market which they already control. con-
Stunning about 81 900, 600 worth of supplies
while the manufacturers secure one con-
Stunning about So, 100000 in which they
i practically sold nothing. The very same
; can be said of our arrangements with
r Cuba and Porto Rico. This scheme of
4 reciprocity is nothing more nor less than
r an effort to extend the boundaries of
protection to our manufactures Dissbuse
= your minds at once, my friends, if you think
= this scheme is in the direction of free
Q trade. Coupled with prohibitory tariff il
/ is stab at the foreign markets for our
= agricultural surplus. Instead of giving
S greater freedom to our farmers, a wider
market for our surplus, it is desiguea 10
( contne them more securely within the
prison walls of protection.
RECIPROCITY.
Reciprocity and protection cannot be
driven together; they travel in opposite
directions.
3 ut hlChlul6y law - nOJ only OBNOXIOUS
2 because OF It's injurious effects upon trade
t and commerce, but il contains provision
which is much more dangerous than u mere
t abuse OF the taxing power OF the govern :
S ment. TIE bounty clause is an
! open and palpable violation OF
r every principle of free government.
o The power OF the legislative department of
5 the government TO enact a law for the sup
2 port of private industry, out of the public
: revenues, is more dangerous one than the
8 power of taxation without represen tation.
S The very purpose of representation is to
Y prevent an abuse of the taxing power II
Q Congress possesses the power to grant sub
sides and give bounties to one industry it
possesses that power without limit
Q Why bounty TO sugar producers; why a
: subsidy to ship owners, and not to Others
t Either this bounty will be repealed or il
f will be extended. 1t must cease or it will
/, grow. Industries that can only live by
a public charity are destructive, not bene-
( fetal to the general welfare. The demand
= for bounties, for sui sides and for appro-
= priations from the national treasury for
8 private purposes is growing with an alarm.
! ing rapidity. The idea that the government
Y is the parent and under obligations To
= favor, support and maintain industries and
t classes is becoming more universal day by
. day. We seem to be on the very bosom of
/ current of sentiment which if NOT
. checked or changed will carry US upon
t breakers that will test the strength of our
8 institutions. In the midst of winds and
d storms of reefs and rocks, there is but one
0 safe course for US and that is to cling more
= firmly to the vessel which has braved
r every element and weathered every storm.
9 would rather go down to defeat up.
holding the grand old banner of democracy
t than to achieve great victory by erasin g
3 from its face one single principle inscribed
upon it by our fathers.