The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-14

is tin plate trust in this country also.
only 1t sells tin plate at S5.25 per box.
The English sugar trust sells sugar at 81
sack. The American sugar trust sold for
years st IS anc now sells at 50.
" hlle the English pig iron trust was
selling at 5000 per ton, the American pig
iron trust was selling az ST per ton. The
reason that our trust could get S. so per
ton more than the English trust could get
was that the tariff on pig iron was s6.I2
per ton.
WHAT'S IL NAMEl"
There is just as tight 3 trust on refined
sugar today as there was two years ago.
The only difference is that we get sugar
from this same trust just 81 per sack
cheaper than We did before. Two dollars
per hundred weight was taken from the
sugar tax by the Mckinley law. We shall
have sugar trust even when there is no
TAX on sugar, but we shall then get our
sugar still cheaper than we can get il today.
II II is the word trust or combine -
and not the increased price, that is objec-
tionaoie. why let the tariff alone, and get
the trust stockholders 10 chang the name
OF their organization. They will gladly do
IT. If that will pacify the tariff burdened
people. A trust by any other name will
yield as much, If only the tariff remains
untouched.
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There is one other. protection argument
about steel rails to be refuted 1t is the
oft-repeatsd lie that in 1867 rails were
selling at sl66 per ton. Then tariff was
put on them, and it so stimulated Ameri-
can industry and invention that the rails
are now selling at $50 per ton. Therefore
the tariff is not a tax, etc.
To begin with. English rails never were
Sl66 per Tor. That is the price in American
currency, which was at a discount at that
time OF 40 per cent compared with gold
Sl66 WAS the price paid in this deprecated
currency for British rails, after paying
the freight insurance, commissions, and
tariff taxes on them, In bringing them into
this country. The English price in gold
was Sos per ton.
Thirty-hve years ago Utah lumber was
sold at 500 per thousand. Today, like
English rails, it sells at from $50 to SD.
But If any Republican orator happens to
find this out. be will go all over the terri
tory telling the people the tariff on lumber
caused this fall in the price, and that,
consequently, the tariff is not tax. Prob
ably not one Republican in ten would be-
lleve that anything hut the tariff on lumber
caused Utah lumber to come down in price
1t is not and perhaps never viii be
known to those who talk this Kind of pro
lection nonsense that the greatest inven-
ton ever made in steel making, the
Bessemer process, originated in England,
was the work Of an Englishmau, and was
afterwards introduced into this country
The invention Of the Bessemer process
revolutionized steel making, and quickly
brought down prices. But prices in this
country were higher, generally by the
amount Of the tariff tax, than they were in
England. For many years the difference
averaged So per ton higher here than
tlPra This vpa- the hi ffaranoa 10 orlx S1O
or 81 per ton, because the trust became
little "shaky.n though the tariff author
ICES the trust to collect Sl3 per ton. There
is little doubt that the trust will presently
be able to collect its full blackmail of Sl3
on each ton il sells to the American people
Republican protection is robbery.
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