The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-28

| imam the ancient price, ana Inc hepuDu-
cans actually have the face to parade tall
| of Z cents per keg in thirty years as mag
niticent example of how protection reduces
| prices. And they dare not even now give
| the foreign price of wire nails, while they
carefully conceal the wire nail trust rob-
berry of the people during all the years that
the tariff buttressed trust was able TO
maintain prices.
| recently heard Democratic speaker
| explain the case as follows:
| A Chinaman works for i've cents day.
| An American farm laborer must be paid at
| least 81 per day-twenty times as much as
the Chinaman gets. Therefore. says the
! Republican, we cannot afford TO trade
freely with China, because that would De
to compete with pauper labor-la that
| works for five cents day. AS q matter Oh
! fact that is the very reason we ought to
trade with China.
! The Chinaman raises rs much tea IN
day as an American could raise, since Is
must be raised by hand with careful culti-
walton of q small patch. But the
American with q fine large farn
| stocked with horses and machinery can
| raise twenty times as much wheat as the
! Chinaman can raise. The result is that
the Chinaman is willing to give three
pounds of tea. which cost him twenty
| days. labor to raise, for one bushel OF
wheat, which cost the American only one
| day's labor to produce.
| BY exchanging wheat for tea, the Amer
! lean is thus thrown out OF nineteen days
| work. He gets as much tea Tor one days
work in wheat. as he would get by twenty
| days' work if he raised the tea itself, In
stead OF trading wheat for it. Our soil and
climate are admirably adapted TO tea, and
the Republican policy is to increase work
| by refusing 10 bring from abroad what
can be produced at greater labor
-rha no
| for increasing the amount of work
to be done. The Republican policy is a
great SUCCESSFUL it diminishes results.
1t would compel q man TO work twenty
| days for the same amount OF tea be now
gets for one days labor.
! OF course every Republican will hasten
to say that we do not trade wheat Tor tea,
! but for money. Every one OF them will
inform you that the Chinese and Japanese
pay us money. not tea for the wheat we
send them. The Chinese coin is called a
! tail; the Japnese coin, a yen. DID you
ever see ones II the Republican theory
were true we should have many millions
of them in circulation among Us. AS x
any boy what we get from China. He Will
tell you "hrecrackers and skyrockets. J"
Ask any girl She will tell you sfans and
4 silk handkerchiefsn ASK any woman. She
will tell you tea.
But ask any Republican editor or stump
speaker. He will tell you the Chinese pay
| US millions upon millions every year IL
yens and taels. And you will believe him
if you are a--well, if you are Repub-
lican.
Anyone except Republican editor will
understand the above explanation. Let US
notice briefly the general case.
| The tariff is tax levied upon the ar
ticles we import; and when we buy those
| articles, part Of the price we pay for them
| is the tax the government has collected OH
them. When we buy similar articles not
imported, but made In this country, we
pay an advanced price to the pro-
ducers OF the articles. 1t has been
shown that though we pay to the govern
ment about 1920, 600, 600 year for direct
taxes, we pay perhaps i've times that
amount in extra prices on articles that are
made here and protected by the tax on
similar articles imported. For the protec-
ton of our manufacturers consists not in
the advanced prices of imported articles,
/ but of those that are not imported. All
talk that our manufacturers do not in
general, charge more for their products
| is mere childish deception, for unless they
90 they have absolutely no protection.
gal protection
We raise wheat enough to feed 100, 000,-
600 people and have but 63000,0 00 1t Is q
condition. not theory that confronts US.
| by the census OF 1851, on6-lourCn OIL Lne
total farm crop OF the United States is q
surplus that canEot be consumed here. 1t
must be sent abroad or let go to waste
The value Of the farm crops exported in
1881 was $3.50. 1894, 943 The pay for these
exported farm products was the same
value, at foreign prices, of manufactured
articles. When this pay for the farmers
surplus arrived at the custom houses on
our shores the government levied q tax Of
S1S9, 902, 6S5 on it as tire on the farmers
for the crime of raising more products
! than this country can consume. 1t took
$50 from every farmer that produced this
surplus, and the lmber OF farmers
who must work one Year to produce this
surplus was 2, 100000. That is the number
of men on farms in 1881 who were engag ed
in producing the American farm surplus
that we exported. To drive them off their
farms about one-fourth of the pay they re-
ceived for their surplus was conhscated
by the government. This was to prevent
J them from importing manufactured goods,
for were they permitted to do SO without
| the tariff tax they ould compel our pro-
lected mani fact 5 to sell as cheaply in
!, the home marKet as they sell,to foreigners.
That is what the manufacturers will moi
do. Protection is fraud. PERICLEs.