The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-25

Under the tariff in the four years between
1880 and 1884 the number OF sheep in the United
States increased 10. 600 900 head, or from 40 500
OUO to %, 500 000 in round numbers
But the facts are that the last number
given by the organ. representing the great
est number of sheep this country ever had,
is the number in 1884 and 1885, or just two
and three years respectively after the
slight reduction Of the wool tariff IN the
early part of 1888.
Thus, every figure the organ quotes ia
false or perverted. Its answer after the
challenger it made, ought to be published
IN every Democratic paper in Utah and
plscarded before the eyes of every sheep
owner. Its answers confirm everything my
article proved and especially that the wool
Tariff is Of no benefit to the wool grower.
The following also is without palliation
or excuse:
A sensible legislature--not the one that met
last wanter-provided a moderate bounty for
sugar manufactured in this territory. AS a re-
suit, q so, 900 factory was erected in Lehi.
Hundreds OF farmers had part in the new agri-
cultural industry thereby established. The
bounty cost the people last year $il,OOJ But
they saved Sl2,500 by the reduction Of the pric,
OF California sugar. which was made while
the Utah product was on the market So the
bounty cost the people nothing and they made q
cash profit OF 81, 800 by the operation.
There was no reduction in the price of
product. There was fall OF about one
fourth of q cent per pound for less than one
month, not at the time however, when the
Utah product was first put on the market,
nor did the fall continue during the time
the Utah product lasted
The fall originated in New York, and
lasted about three weeks. Then the price
of sugar went up again. This territory
saved no more than any other place by the
fall in sugar. If the fail in the price of
sugar had lasted all year, the saving would
have been Sl2. 800 as the Times asserts; but
it lasted only a few weeks. If the fall had
been confined to Utah, then it is conceiva-
bic that the fall in price might have been
Occasioned by the comparatively small
Utah product; but the fall was general. If
sugar were not almost constantly rising
and falling in price, the Times assertion
might have some significance. These and
several other Troublesome ''ifs'' are in the
path of the ludicrous reasoning of paper
that hesitates not an instant to set down
the most ordinary, low, and common false
hoods, with an airy carelessness, as if they
were well-knOwn truths. What the Re-
publican paper quoted above 10 doing, every
Republican paper aud every Republican
speaker in America is doing.
l am an American but am ashamed of my
countrymen. For fifteen years past nearly
million sheep owners have regularly
voted the Repu blican ticket, because they
believed the wool tariff enabled them to
plumber the rest of their countrymen to
the extent of 10 cents per pound on ali the
wool the latter wore in cloth. This bride
has been openly offered by the Republican
party and openly accepted by the wool
growers, but II has never been paid. That
however, is only an incident. The real
point Is that the American voter is in favor
of q theft-if he gets it. The wooi-grower
| l. 49,
rich through protection, and simpleton like,
he has imagined that he, without forming
a wool trust. could get share of the swag.
1t can be shown by any one that cares to
| hgure 1t out. that II the wool-growers actu-
ally received their protection of 10 cents
per pound, on all the wool raised in this
country they would get less than $40, 000,-
| 600. While the consumers who wear this
wool would have to pay many times that
amount by the time the wool had fairly
reached them The tax on imported wool
cloth is twice the amount the wool-growers
would receive if they collected every cent
of this protection. The advanced price of
domestic cloth must be five times the total
amount the wool-growers could by any
possibility receive, even If they were able
TO form a trust and sell only at the average
price of foreign grease wool (331l cts
when landed in this country.
Yet they are willing that their country
men shall be taxed $50. provided that they
receive So of it.
They are willing to believe that the
tariff of 80 cents on wheat or 10 cents on
wool is added to the price they get, while
the price OF these very articles Is higher
in Liverpool than the prcie at which they
SELL
They are willing to believe that the tariff
lowers the price Of manufactures, and in
creases the price of agricultural products.
The manufacturers, few in number, are
banded together into $50 trusts, bound by
oath not to sell under the foreign price
with duty added. The farmers are too
numerous TO form trust. In some few
manufactures a trust cannot easily be
formed, as in some of the cotton mills.
But in 400 other cases, the trusts are q sue
cess.
Some are wiling to believe that since the
tariff makes manufactures cheaper las Re-
publicaEs tell them), therefore the manu-
lecturers can afford TO pay higher wages !;
and that the manufacturers ask for tariffs
in order to get less for their goods and to
pay more to their workingmen.
Others are willing TO believe that the
tariff increases the price of agricultural
products, the producers of which cannot
form trust.
picked by the tariff trusts. if they in turn
y
pockets of others.
This last class seems to be the most nu-
merous, and the appeal that is now being
made to the Republican voters is a mere
appeal to their cupidity. So long as the
Democratic party appealed merely to the
sense of justice of the voters it did not
gain many votes. So long as it adhered to
the opinion of the Supreme Court in the
only real case of this nature that ever came
before it, that
To lay with one hand the power of the govern
ment on the property of the. citizen and with
the other to best0w II upon favored individuals
TO aid private enterprises and build up private
fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is
done under the forms of the law and is called
taxation
nobody paid any attention to it.
That certain thing was ROBBERY" made
no difference to the American people, the
only question with each of them was, us
be d--di' And preachers, lawyers man
ufacturers and wool-growers wed with
each other in their efforts TO obtain portions
OF the public plumber
1t has therefore become necessary to an
peal TO the selfshness of tho great major
ity, the consumers of taxed articles. who
are hundred times more numerous than
the producers Of these articles, and also TO
the greed of those producers, who like the
W ool-groWers, get none of the swag they
thought they were getting,
This universal corruption of public mo-
rality has been wrought by protection.
Both sides are now appealing TO the self
ishness of the people. one side having al
ways done so, the other side now being
forced to do so from the resulting state of