The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-19
rHE LOGIC or events.

When certain mills and factories
closed down through the financial strin-
gency. Republican papers commenced
to howl about the fear of free trade,
and declared it was the prospect Of
tariff revision that caused the catas-
trophe. Our morning contemporary
Joined in the cry but very soon set up
another, and one day aseribed all the
trouble to the expected assault on pro-
lection. and the next day to the demone-
tization of silver.
But now that news comes daily of the
resumption of work on those same
mills and factories. on full time and
wages, and the opening of others, and
that too as the certainty of tariff re-
vision is imminent, they refuse to ac-
knowledge the error of their ways and
the folly of their conclusions.
The Tribune's latest utterance on
the subject is: There could have
been but one reason for that, which
was the fear of tariff reduction" We
could clip from half dozen issues of
the same paper within few weeks
in which the whole trouble was attrib-
uted to the wrong done to silver. But
that is nothing remarkable in our
neighbor it is an infrmity it has which
seems to be incurable
But there is no getting away from
the logic of events. If it was the fear
of tariff reduction which closed the
factories six months ago, now when
the announcemnt is made that the
reduction bill will be ready in two
weeks, more factories ought to close
down. But they have heen opening and
resuming right along as the effects
of the senseless money panic are pass
ing away and the nearer we get to
tariff reduction the less idle mills and
factories there are
Is it not then the hight of unreason.
or the depth of obstinate perversity,
that clings to the exploded theory and
in the face of positive proofs that it
was untenable still maintains it as the
only possible cause of the disasters
that are past?
Any kind of an excuse to account
for the prosperity that has returned
as the money tightness is relaxed,
seems to satisfy the unregenerate Re
publicans who shouted free trader
to alarm the foolish But their little
lodges will not work, the facts are
too plain and as the full tide of pros
perity rolls on their sophistries will be
swallowed up and disappear.
The following from a New York ex-
change touches pointedIy on this sub
ject:
1t is hard to keep track of the differ
ent theories advanced by Republican
organs for the condition of business at
present Whenever a mandatory
which has been closed starts up they
ascribe it to the result of the elections
which they say were a protest against
| liCC Il ouS. DuI DIT the same time they
say that the Democrats learn nothing
from the lessons and are going ahead
with their free trade tariff Just as
though there had not been any cleo
tons. This seems to make out the
manufacturers a set of fools-or to
put in that category the editors who
do not see that the establishments
which have resumed business since
last Tuesday did so for the same rea-
son as those which resumed earlier
because they have faith in the future.
Another eastern exchange says:
Every day now brings it's list of es-
| Establishments which are resunaing work
on full time, in some cases after being
entirely shut down for months These
signs of improvement are most notice.
able in those industries which are most
affected by the tariff The resumption
of work by such establishments lust
when the way has been cleared for an
early revision of the tariff shows the
absurdity Of the claim that it was the
fear of the tariff changes which caused
them to close a few months ago.