Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-06


ease OF American competition. Tho
United States now supply Cuba with
about 100000 tons OF coal annually,
and there Ia every prospect OF this trade
increasing as the forests Of the Island
become exhausted and the use Of steam
machinery on the estRtes " developed.
Alabama coal especially II recurring q
reputation In the Spanish West indies
and the manufactures aud Improve.
ments Of the Southern States will TN.
doubtedly create an important gulf
trade. The new reciprocity treaty by
which the United States nre enabled to
import Cuban sugar, will VI course
boost the American coal exporters
even more eiectually than the new
lines OF railway.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
promises q repeal Of the tariff law con-
tanning this provision, and especially
denouncos Ms sham reciprocity that
section oi the law under which these
trade arrangements have been made.
II no other issue were Involved In the
campaign, this alone would give II
momentous Importance. Are the
farmers Of the great grain.growing
States wiling 10 surrender these new,
large and increasing markets for
their Eurplus2 Are we to have
nothing In exchange for the
free importation Of sugar anu
coffee, and at the same time 10 destroy
tho sugar planters Of the South and the
hest sugar Industry OF the Northwest
and OF the Pacific coast, or are we 10
have tn. taxed sugar aud coffee which
a tariff for revenue only necessarily In.
wolves, with the added loss NJ the new
marhots which have been opened, Us 1
have shown? Our commercial rivals
To Europe do nottegard this rccipfo.
city policy ne "shum," but "a u srri.
ous threat to a trade supremacy they
have long enjoyed. They would re-
j)icc, and n prudence did not restrain,
would Illuminate their depressed man
ufacturiug cites over the news that
the United States had abandoned It's
system ~ protection and reciprocity.
They see very clearly that restriction
OF American products aud TIE de aud a
corresponding Increase vi European
production and trade would follow,
and | will not believe that what IL NO
plain to them can be hidden from cur
own people. The declaration Of the
platform In favor Of the American
doctrine OF protection meets my most
hearty approval. The convention did
not adopt schedule, but one principle
Ia to control all the tariff schedules.
There may be differences OF opinion
among protectionists as 10 the rate
upon particular articles necessary 10
elect an equalization between wages
abroad auu mt home. In come
not remote national campaigns
| the issus has renn, or more
correctly has been made to hpposr be-
tween high and low productive
tarill, both parties protest. ng solicl-
toue regard for the wages Of our work
ing people and for the prosperity Of our
domestic indu.trie,. But under u
more courageous leadorehip the Dem.
ooIatic party has now practically de-
claied that II givon power II will enact
n tariff law without any regard to It's
effect on wages OF upon the ca ital In
vested in our great industries. The
majority report OF the committee on
platform to tho Democratic National
convention at Chicago contained
this clause, that "when custom
house taxation IL levied upon articles
OF any kind produced in this country,
the difference between tho cost Of
labor here and abroad when such DIFF
ference exists, fully measures any
possible benefits TO labor and the
enormous additional importation OF
the existing tariff fall with crushing
| force upon our farmers and working
menu Here we have n distinct adj
mission on the Republican contention
that American workingmen are adj
vantagcd by "A tariff equal 10 the differ
| 49, lNf
anu declaration only against the al.
legged additional impositions OF the
existing tariff"
Again this majority report further
declared: "But Ia making reduction
In taxes II 10 not Proposed W iDjure
any domestic Industry, but rather 10
promote their healthy growth. More.
over, many industries have come to
rely upon Legislation for successful con-
| tinuance, 80 that every change Of law
must at every step be regardful OF labor
and capital anu business interest. -
Here we have an admission that many
OF our industries depend upon pro-
tectlve duties for successful continu.
aimee, anu the declaration that tariff
changes shall DO regardful OF the work.
men in such industries and OF In
vested capital. Nothing Is more indi-
cative of new and more courageous
leadership, to which the party now
committed itself, than tho substitute
which was adopted. This substitute
declares
PROTECTIVE DUTIES USCoSsrIr U.
TIONAL
high protection or low protection
all Unconstitutional. n Democratic
Congress holding this view cannot
enact, nor Democratic President
approve any tariff schedule, the pur.
pose or effect Of which IN TO limit
| appropriations or give any advantage
10 the American workmcn OF pro-
Queer. Bounty might, Judge, be poid
TO the importer under this view OF
| the Constitution in Greer TO la.
crenso important fmpOrtations.
This destructive un-American doc
trine ia not held or taught by history,
by Democratic atatosmen whose fame
as American patriots reached this gen.
Grafton; certainly not by Jefferson OF
Jackson. This crusade against Amerl.
can ships, bitter epithets applied to
| American manufacturers, persistent
disbelief OF the opening OF tinplate
mill or the increase OF our foreign trade
by reciprocity, are as surprising az they
are discreditable. There Is not n
thoughtful statesman In the country
who does not know the enactment 0i
a law In harmony with the Chicago
convention on tho subject OF the tariff
would at once plunge the country into
u business CONFUSION suoh M 1t never