The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-26


ION the other is labor, asking for EN-
ployment striving to develop domes
| tic industries, battling with the force
of nature and subduing the wilderness
labor. starving and sullen in cities
resolutely determined to overthrow {
system under which the rich are grow
ing richer and the poor are growing
poorer.-Senator ingalls,, Feb. Is, 1ST
Ia witness to the condition of tn
country under high tariff.
Hugh McCulloch, Republican secre
tary of the treasury, in his report TO
| 1884, recommended the removal of o
| the duties on raw materials and tn,
reduction of duties on articles con
sumed by the poor. He then outlined
the policy of the Wilson bill.
| In 1857 the price of wool was s.
cents, in 1870, 46 cents; in 1888, 40 cents
policy of protecting the wool grower
as it is in all industries, to gradually
reduce the price ''--Senator John SlDsr
man, 1885,
These duties ION raw materials
not only come from the consumer al
home, but act as a protection to for.
eign manufacturers of the same com
pleted articles in our own and distant
markets. President Grants message
1875.
Undoubtedly the inequality OF
wages of English and American opera
tivss are more than equalized by the
greater efficiency of the latter and
their longer hours of labor. II
thus appears that each American oper-
alive works up as much raw material
as two British operatives. James G.
Blaine, report as secretary of state
1891
THE tariff of 1S46, although con-
fessedly and professedly a tariff for
revenue, was, so far as regards all thss
great interests of the country, as per-
feet tariff as any we ever had
But / am told we must legis-
late SO as to furnish a home market
for all our agricultural products. Any
one examining the subject will see that
our agricultural products increase
more rapidly than our population; SO
that if we do not export these articles
in their natural condition we must dc
so by converting them into manufac-
tured articles and export these ar
ticles. But this cannot be done under
a high tariff, for all nations will buy
manufactured articles whersa they are
the cheapest will control the market
This rule excludes our highly taxed
manufactures made from highly taxed
materials from the markets. of the
world, although we have natural adj
vantages possessed by no other ma
tion."-Senator Allison, March "A, 1870.
Il think American labor will be best
protected by taxing all the necessaries
of life lightly; placing the raw material
which enter into our manufactures on
the free list.''--Henry Wilson.
Il am for protection which leads to
ultimate free President Gar
field.
'Constitutionally tax can have no
other basis than the raising of reven-
ues for public purposes and whatever
government exaction has not this ex-
action is tyrannical and unlawful A
tax on imports. therefore, the purpose
of which is not to raise revenue, but
to discourage and indirectly prohibit
some particular import for the benefit
of some home manufacturer, may well
be questioned as being merely color
able, and. therefore. not warranted by
constitutional principles Thomas H.
Cooley, Principles of Constitutional
Law
We have more Of the same kind and
shall be delighted from time to tins
to show our citizens the true inward
ness of the Republican tariff from a
Republican standpoint, if our opponents
want that kind of argument on this
question.