The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-10
THE FARMERS RAZZLE.DAZZLE.

Said Governor CAMPBELL in his speech
ct Ada, o., reported in The HERALD yes
terdsy: "Since the war we have doubled
taxation in the tariff. Who is benefited
by ita What have the farmers of Ohio
gotten out of it'll A voice, "Razzle-
dazzle."l
The ''rszzle dszzle'' may be slang, but it
represents an idea that is very serious, in
deed. 1t means the farmers have got the
worst of it; that they have had the conf
dence game played on them; that glittering
prospects have been held up before their
eyes to blind and daze them. When men
like CHAUNCET BLACK aud BYNUM
and BECK go among the people
telling the truth about the conse-
quences of the robbsr tariff, they
are called calamity shriekers and ravens
and pessimists. And it is very true that
the advocates of protection don't seem to
see affairs in any but favorable light.
When the Republicans of Maine and the
northeastern states go forth to address the
public on political topics they have nothing
but pleasant things to remind them of.
They tell them how protection has made
deposits have doubled and Quadrupled;
how their holdings of western railroad
and real estate mortgages have been aug
mented; how their money wealth has in
creased so they have difficulty in investing
il all safely; how their ownership over
the western states has made itself
felt in legislation; how their pro
tected interests have become SO prosperous
that they need additional markets in South
America and MeXico-all brought about by
the Republican high tarin policy. Demo
cratic speakers unfortunately cannot boast
OF any such evidences of prosperity as the
result Of law-making. They may, it is
true, exhibit big peaches, as Governor
CAMPBELL did the other day at Steuben-
vile, or point to line crops and phenomi-
nal foreign demand, but they are won't to
thank Con, and not the Republican party.
for these boons. And as TO the cereal
crops. it is the Republican party which
will not permit the owners who sell them
abroad to buy abroad with them the neces-
saries and comforts of life, which they are
compelled to pay exorbitant prices for tere
IN support of the protectionists. There is
where they get me "rszzle -dazzle'
A year ago when Secretary RUsK, of the
agricultural department, was out wesr
making Republican speeches and inspecting
beet and sorghum sugar factories, he told
the farmers not TO expect any improvement
of their condition from Legislative action
as there were some things that laws cannot
do, such as making farm crop prices high
and farmers rich. And yet thi,
very thing has been done witt
the Legislative action
has increased the prices of theil
goods so per cent, and in consequence they
have grown rich. Many of the protected
manufacturers Of the northeast are mil
lionsires, and Legislative action" has
made them SO. Now, it is no part of th,
business of Congress to make farmers
wealthy. add they do not ask it: but Con.
gress has made farmers poor by the policy
with which it has msde the protected man
ufscturers rich, and this is what they hay,
right 70 complain OF. The great wealth
and prosperity Of the manufacturing north
east finds its counterpart in the constant,
increasing Indebtedness Of the agriculture
west. One is the legitimate product Of tbs
other, and there again is where the farme
gets the ''razzle-dszZle.n