The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-15

In attempting 10 wriggle its way out OF
the dilemma created by itself in decrying
cheap clothing and demanding cheap coal,
our much disturbed contemporary, the
Tribune, makes lengthy, but Intellectual
struggles TO preserve its temper aud its
equilibrium.
THE HERALD has not misrepresented the
Tribune, which endeayored to make people
believe that under the Democratic policy
wages would be reduced from 50 to 81 a
day, or that there would be mo wages at
all" Also that the country would be
flooded with cheap goods" And it as
serted positively; "If the men of this
country get goods cheaper they will simply
be cheaper men; that is all" AT the same
time, in another article. on the same page
Of the same paper, it clamored for cheap
coal. Our question was and is, if cheap
coat makes cheap man, will not cheap
coal also make cheap mans This query
column and half of Tribune contortions
fail to dispose of.
1t is of no use to dilate upon the
terrible results that are to follow a
policy which no party or person
of consequence proposes to inaugurate.
/ This bowling about free trade'' and its
awful consequences is waste of time and
j space, besides being deceptive and mislead-
! ing. The Democratic party does not ad
vocate free trade. A Democratic admins
ration will not attempt to establish it. A
reduction of the tariff, to meet the demand
of the people Of the Uuited States voiced
on the Sth day Of the present month, is
what the victorious party intends to effect.
That reduction viii be made on articles of
common necessity rather than on articles
/ OF luxury, reversal of the policy of the
! MCKINLEY bill
Our ratified neighbor first assumes that
the tariff is 10 be destroyed and the ports
of the country thrown open to cheap goods
| from abroad, TO be followed by reduction
OF wages to one-third of present rates, or
mo wages at all, u WITH surfeit of com
modities and no money to buy them.
Then, in an endeavor to show how reckless
the party is which desires TO ruin manu-
4 factures.'' it predicts an era of extrava-
gance which will necessitate the raising of
large revenues, and as these are to come
from the tariff. it's whole apple cart of
calamites comes down with crash. If
the tariff is TO be kept up TO provide plenty
of money for Democratic administration
10 spend, where is the ruin to come from
as consequence of Democratic free trade?
We believe it would delight our Republi-
can free traden shriekers if disaster were
TO come, from any cause, to the manu-
featuring interests of the country, so that
they could charge it TO the Democratic
party. But as the only proposition in re-
gard to duties upon imports is to reduce
them judiclously, according to popular
needs and without injury to either capital
or labor, there is no likelihood Of any such
destruction to American industries as the
tronble predicters SO cheerfully anticipate.
Should the moneyed corporations that nave
/ fattened on high tariff protection attempt
to reduce wages for the purpose of making
political capital out of tariff reform, the
labor associations viii be alive TO the stu
alton and will no doubt take care of that
matter in good shape. 1t will be seen,
when the needed reforms are effected ia
the tariff. that all the alarms raised over
the business were baseless. There will be
no free trade" revolutions
The tariff for revenue only, which is the
party doctrine, viii be found in practice
no menace to any American industry and
no detriment to American LABOR. 1t viii
simply mean a little less profit to some fat
firms and corpulent corporations, and cor
responding benefits to the great purchas-
lug public DEMONSTRATIONS OF dire dis
tress and efforts to disturb the popular
mind as to impending woes. merely serve
to fill up columns OF space in papers that
still cling to grave Republican heresies.