The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-27
A DANIEL AT JUDGMENT.

Our morning Republican contemporary
has very dark brown taste in its mouth,
and bees in its head. 1t is feeling not at
all '.seralgic.n At last it has had glimpse
of great truth. What The HERALD has
been ding-donging for 10 these many days
about northeastern supremacy, and the
domination of the manufacturing and
money-lending power over the agricultural
and producing sections, has at length
flashed upon our neighbor like a sunburst.
Listen:
The west realizes at last that the great masses
Of the people Of the east DO not appreciate the
part which the west has contributed toward
their prosperity. and that is always the case
when people get so numerous that they count
on their numbers and claim for their numbers
especial consideration; and when they reach
that point, which the east has already reached
where in giving a reason for their acts their
best argument is that they are backed by SO
many millions of men, and hence are not bound
to respect communities where the population is
not SO numerous, no matter what the demands
OF those communities may be or how just their
complaints may be. The west has learned by
sorry experience during the last fifteen years
that the only anxiety the east seems ever to
y
cure what electoral votes the west can supply.
True, o Tribune; true, indeed Re-
Gently THE HERALD showed that IN eleven
agricultural states, with population of
100000 there was more than twice as
much capital invested in farming as
there was invested in manufacturing in
nine manufacturing states with 100000
fewer people, and yet seventeen persons
and ST. in capital earn nearly as much in
the latter as twenty-nine persons and $50
in capital earn in the farming states Some
of the farming states-Illinois, Missouri,
Iowa and Minnesota-are engaged in mau-
ufacturing also, and they show some thrjv-
ing industries; but western manufactures
are, in the main, unprotected, standing on
! their own bottoms, and receiving no help
| from the government. These manufact-
ures are grinding, meat packing, dairying
and brewing, while the New England man
ufactures are cotton. wooden, silk, leather,
metallic and straw goods, all of which are
protected by duties, which yield profit OF
three to seven dollars on every ten dollars
worth of goods.
How manufacturing dominates all other
interests in the eastern states, and how in
significant all other interests are in com
parison with it, is shown in report en-
bracing returns for 1888 of the manu-
features of Massachusetts, the latest a.
hand. 1t prepared by an officer of the
state and is a faithful official exhibit of the
operations of l, 40 establishments, making
articles all protected by high duties, nearly
all of which were increased by the McKIN
LEY tariff of 1890. These LAO establish
ments had 100000 capital invested
employed ia, 900 hands; used up S165, 500,
GOO worth of raw materials; paid ou'
$69, SAC, 900 in wages: and turned out pro
duct valued at $500, $4,000. Deducting
stock from the gross product there is lef
1856, 020, 900, representing the value of The
labor of the hands, aided by the capital in
vested. This gives an industry product o.
1894 per hand-one-third being men, tht
others women and children-and it shows
the value of labor in the protected manu-
features of the state in 1888. Statistics O
the same year show the average wages o
farm labor at $3.50. This shows why th,
east is so deeply concerned in the policy o
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of all other domestic interests. Home man
ufactures mean northeastern manutac
lures, and protecting" them means fore
ing the people Of the other states to bu.
them at prices which yield to the favore
manufacturer of profit of from 20 to 6
per cent.
1t isn't the electoral votes only, as tn
Tribune intimates, that the east cares for
1t is the Congressional votes likewise, o
chiefly. After making their millions Of
the west the eastern capitalists want t
lend it back to the borrowers of the ives
at enormous rates of Understanding i
silver, demanding payment in gold, an
taking farms for mortgages. To do thi
: they must have the Congress as well a
the President. and they try to make tn
west help them carry both in order to sti
further enslave the western people. The
i endeavor to blind the people as to the tru
issues. 1t is loyalty and fighting the oil
rebellion in one place. a pure ballot and
|. fair COUNT in another, justice to the "negr
wards of the nation in third, anti-Mor
monism in q fourth and SO on-just as tn
pick pocket calls the attention of his victir
, to some distant or fictitious object willis
he robS him.