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


Not only does the Republican paper fall
sify my article, but it also lies about The
HERALD.
The HERALD's correspondent demon
strated that protection has increased the
price Of wcolen cloth to consumers, with
out Increasing the price of homegrown
raw material.
THE HERALD did not demonstrate the
other day that the Mckinley bill had re-
duced the cost of the necessities of life;''
but it has been shown that the bill did in
crease the price of the manufactured goods
on which the tariff was raised. as in the
case of tin plate; that it reduced the price
of manufactures on which the tax was
lowered, as in the case Of sugar; and that
on The great mass of farm crops it had no
effect.
A paper that will thus deliberately lie IN
regard to what the wool tariff article con-
tained-an article accessible TO any one and
deliberately pervert recent HERALD editor
ials-deserves careful watching when il
quotes statistics"
Win paper that lies on point Of easy
detection be truthful on other points.
Notice once more the words in which the
Times says the Republican claim is that
the tariff is not a tax and does not Edd to
the price of the protected articles
just three weeks ago this lying little
braggart said:
No man who gives the subject moments
thought can deny that TO remove the duty on
wool would be to cheaper the selling. price OF
not only the people who sell wool and work in
mines who are inJuriously affected when woolis
cheap. Wool and lead are
only two Of several thousand articles protected
by the tariff of 1890. Nobody but loafers can
say that they are not directly benefited =
We challenge any Democrat in Utah
TO tell US how the people of this territory can
be benefited by reducing the price OF their wool.
Times, Aug. %.
In one article it says the tax keeps up the
price of the protected articles, and chal-
lenge 'any Democrat" to dispute that prop
osltion in regard TO wool When cornered
by the facts it hestens to say that the ere
publican claims IS that the tariff s'does
not add to the price of the protected arti-
cles.''
What do honest people think of this Re-
publican hypocrisyg
Look at The next and only remaining
argument"
OF course, THE HERALD will now want to
know how the tariff helps Utah producers if it
does not increase the cost 10 consumers.
The Republican tariff keeps foreign COMPETE
tors out OF the best market in the worid-the
American market-builds a wool industry in
this country and preserves the field for it
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The way the wool tariff "keeps out for
elgn competitors is that it causes the
yearly importation of Coz. 600 900 pounds of
raw wool made into 133, S40, O50 pounds of
finished cloth; and it 'builds a wool indus
try'' downwards'-from q value of Sl32.-
0C0, 900 IN 1867 TO value of only SIC, 600, 900
in 1892.
If the Times is not an ass, what ia ita
After thinking over the subject week
longer, however, the Times thought best TO
get back 10 its original ground-that the
Republican statistics to the contrary star
ing il in the face, what could it do. Moth
ing: here are It's very words
We dismiss the whole subject OF statistics.
We repDdiate all works on political economy.
This IS the answer made by the paper
that challenged any Democrat TO discuss
IN ats columns the wool tariff II dares
not let its readers see single line from my
article. 1t dsres not face Republican sta
tissics. One thing It does, however, here
as before. IL lies, deliberately aud with
maign sforethought. il tells its readers
that my statistics came from works on
political economy. written in college libra
rles-n Not q sentence. line, word, phrase
or iignre in my article is taken or purports
10 be taken from any political economy. -
The census the stats ical abstracts, Null
beli alctpnary OF stREstics, and kepu BILL
can Statistics especially, with volume and
page specified in every instance, are my
authorities and the Republican braggart
knows that it lies when il deliberately tells
its readers that my statistics pretend 10
come from Republican Sources and are
"coPSous extracts from works on political
economy
But then comes the browning mendacity.
The paper thet "repudiatesi' Official status
tics. proceeds TO manufacture a set. thus: