The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-17
Clothing ana Coal for Example.

10 Its old methods. Driven into q corner on
the clothing question, it is endeavoring to
extricate Itself by shutting AID prevarlca-
ton. 1t is of no use to deny that it declared
'cheap goods meant cheap men under the
goods" Here is its exact language on that
point: ''There can be but one result. II
the men of this country get goods cheaper
they will simply be cheaper men; that's
ALL" 1t was but repetition of the Nc
KINLEY and HARRISON blunder. They
enunciated the same idea and afterwards
saw their folly and tried to make It appear
that high tariff cheapens goods instead Of
raising their cost. Taxing the two notions
together, their amalgamated theory is, that
high tariff makes s'cheap men" Our
ratified neighbor may wriggle out of this il
it can.
Its attempts to creep out Of the coal d.
lemma win not succeed. We did not ''in-
sist that because the Tribune said there 10
coal monopoly here and that the prize OF
coal is too high it is inconsistent with its
favoring of high tariff" All we did on
this question was to ask, IF cheap coat
mades q cheap man, will not cheap coal
have the same effect!' So that our "rea-
soning fsculues' must not be measured by
our contemporaries false standard nor our
argument by its miserable misrepresenta-
tions,
"If man works for 81 day" and il
through tariff reform he has to ''work for 81
day. or for mo wages at all,'' great
many evils might be the result. If But
the 'if'' is only so much quibbling on the
part of our disingenuous opponent There
/ Is no proposal either to reduce wages TO
one-third of ruling rates, or to reduce
wages at all. There is nothing in the
theory or practlcs of tariff for revenue
only which necessarily leads to such re-
suit. The "professions' of the Democratic
party, the declarations In its platform"
the announced intentions to cut down the
'robber tariff do not involve any such
calsmties as our contemporary insists upon
foreshad downing, nor anything but q reason
able and constitutional adjustment of duties
upon imports. That is according to both
the spirit and ''the letter of the Democratic
platform" And the party will break none
of it's solemn pledgesn by simply placing
the tariff on a revenue basis, and so regu-
lsting it that articles OF luxury Will bear
the chief burden and al ticles Of necessity
| be iudiclously relieved, while soma needed
raw materi ais are placed oa the free list
AS to the cost and quality of English
clothing our contemporary will make no
point by trying to make a joke out of an
immoyable fact. We are quite willing that
the gentlemen working on the streets,"
aud "those working on the sewers,n shall
be shown the Herald's statements about
the cost Of broadcIoths and doeskins in
| England, and the cost Of the same articles
here. Also that they shall have the chance
to see that they have to pay as much for an
eastern shoddy coat in this city as they
would have to pay for genuine wool coat
in Liverpool or London. Aud further.
that they should be made acquainted with
the fact that the statement about 81 per
cent. of wool being the average in what
purports to be wool cloth made in Amer
lea, is the report Of @ government Official.
! The gist of the matter is that under the
exorbitant tariff which shuts out from
common use the genuine foreign cloth, the
gentlemen working on the streets and the
sewers" and in other places whsre they
earn an honest living, have to pay eaor-
nous prices for shoddy clothing. This may
be good joke to our elusive contemporary,
but ''the gentlemen on the sewersn will
hardly see it in that light.
The Tribune might just as well put our
statements right as to tNist them out of
shape and then try to turn point on them.
1t only displays the weakness of its cause
by such a line OF argument Our '.admis-
sion'' about shoddy in England was that it
might have been invented in this country,
but that shoddy goods were sold there at
Bhoddy prices while in this country they
were palmed upon the psople for genuine
goods at high prices. In this there Is no
disposition TO do anything but show the
facts, disposition which our contemporary
might cultivate to much advantage
The s'slashings of the tariff which Re-
publican prints pretend to anticipate, will
be undertaken with care. The reductions
will be conservative aud gradual. TIE
goal to be reached will be approached by
easy stages. The intention is not to iniure
anybody or rum any manufacturing in
tsrest. The puolic good will be consulted
in preference to public spectators and
soulless corporations. Reforms are needed,
the people demand them, but they will be
effected nationally and without such radical
and revolutionary measures as the calamity
strikers are threatening and hoping for.
THE PoPULIsTs and Democrats of Kan