The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-31


cents on this raw material; and then
q tax OF SO cents per pound on the
ciafined sugar This protection gave
the ref1ners their 2 cents tax on raw
material back and allowed the refiners
a protection of 115 cents a pound over
and above the tax on raw material,
every cent of which was taken from
the people by forty-nine refineries
under the false pretense that it was
to pay the difference in wages between
this country and abroad.
When, in 1888. an enormous cam
paign contribution was levied upon
the sugar trust it refused to pay it.
Senator Plumb advised Chairman
Foster to put it over the fire and fry
some of the fat out of it, This was
done, and the Mckinley bill reduced
its protection from IL cents TO II a
cent per pound. But plenty of fat was
left. The protected sugAr trust will
collect from the people this year it's
protection of u a cent per pound on
$500, 100000 pounds of sugar, or $751;
10000 TO pay the difference in wages
The total wages it pays is ID cents per
100 pounds, or S5,04000. leaving $l2,-
$4,000 which it pockets from the
money collected to pay its worknen
the difference in wages after get
ting its labor free of cost.
The forty-nine sugar refineries re-
ported to the census office in 1880 that
the total wages paid for refining was
IA cents per 100 pounds. This included
all wages paid
The bureau of statistics reports that,
1880 to 1891, there were refined 1921
719 tons, and wages paid SOL, O46, 1926 if
the cost of refining remained the same
as in $780, 1t has been greatly re-
duced. To pay the difference in wages
these forty-nine refiners have received
protection of ~ cents per pound, in
addition to the compensatory protec-
ton of to 31s cents to recoup the
duties on raw material This protec-
ton for wages was $546, 931. 1858. every
cent of which the trust promised to
collect and pay the worklnen in addi-
ton to foreign wages. The refners
collected it, but the total the workmen
got was $51,046,926, and the trust had
S495, 1874, 432 to divide up as DOODLE and
they had pauper labor that cost it not
a cent.
The Wilson bill proposes to remove
this last u cent of protection, so that
Americans can get American refined
sugar as cheaply as Englishmen can get
it.
Mr.. varian says manufactures must
be built up by taxing the other indus
tries until we shall have enough peo-
pie and manufactures to consume all
the products of our farms I am afraid
he doesn't know, in attempting to
bring about such a condition, how big
a JOB ne has on his hands. We raise
about 100000, 900 bushels of wheat a
year-enough to feed 100, 600, 900 people.
while our population is but 65 200, OOO
Now, our capacity to consume wheat
and other farm products is of necessity
limited to the consuming capacities of
our stomachs. We cannot enlarge our
stomachs third beyond their usual
size whenever the farmers raisle a
third more wheat. Food is not like
SO much of it. The rest must go
abroad, or it will go to waste. But if
1t goes abroad, the pay for it must
come back. This pay will consist, of
course, of various articles of manufac-
ture- The amount of farm surplus
thus exported each year amounts to
S60OOOO.OOO. The pay for it will be like
value of manufactured goods. But
when these manufactured goods which
are the pay for our exported farm sur
plus, reach our shores, the government
levles tax of 80 per cent. average on
all of them; that is, it confiscates one
third of the pay for the farm surplus.
and thus reduces the farmers earn
ings one third. Nay, more; since the
pay received for the surplus exported
fixes the price of all that is sold the
taxation of the pay for the exported
farm surplus reduces the farmers earn
lngS One-third on all he raises
The fact is that everything the
farmer has to sell is sold from one
third to one-half cheaper here than it
is sold in the great markets of the
world in Europe. Take wheat; 45 cents
a bushel here. 80 cents a bushel in
Liverpool. The same is true of all the
grains, and beef. pork. potatoes, and
all the great agricultural staples.
But whatever the farmer has to buy
is bought from one-third to one-half
dearer here than in the great markets
of the world. This includes not only
the articles that are imported on which
the tariff tax has been paid, and also
here, but also articles made here and
never imported at all, for the reason
that the tariff tax keeps them out.
[ hold here Showing paper a hun
dred foreign advertisements of our
protected manufacturers. Every one of
them offers to sell in the open mar
ketS of the world all the way from
ten to one hundred per cent on differ
ent articles cheaper abroad than the
articles are sold here. Here is one. for
instance, that on two consecutive lines
says: Discount for the home trade
80 per cent. Discount for the foreign
trade so per cent" The protected
trusts thus faunt in your face the fact
that they sell cheaper abroad than at
home, and ask with brutal cynicism
what the people are going to do about
it Here are American plowS sold in
South America for 81, that sell for S.
here; mowers that sell abroad for $40
and here for S65. Sewing machines
made here that sell in Mexico for $50
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these American machines sell for S25,
while you pay $50
These machines are made here sent
abroad, knocked down" as they call
it; that is each part packed separate
ly, and then sold. This is inserted in
answer to Mr.. Allen, who asserted that
these machines are manufactured
abroad.
American copper, which was before
the cheapest in the world, is now and
has for thirty years sold about to
cents per pound lower in London than
it is sold here. The tax is now cents
pound. 1t should be removed. 1t
makes this robbery of the American
people possible. And so it goes through
hundreds and hundreds of protected
articles produced and sold by the tar
if trusts.
Take the tax on iron, the product
that forms the basis of so many indus
trial articles. To protect the pig iron
manufacturer of PENNSYLVANIA in pay
ing what he alleges is the difference in
wages between this country and
abroad a duty of $6.72 is levied Upon
every ton of pig-iron imported
In 1880 the pig-iron manufacturers
of Pennsylvania reported to the United
States census that the total labor cost,
the total amount of wages that they
paid was $236 per ton. This includes
all wages paid from the high-priced
superintendent to the last and smallest
office boy. In other words, the pig
iron trust of PENNSYLVANIA WIS author