The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-11
HIGH TARIFF WALL.
A Tilt with The Tribune ON Republic
can Protection.
A Mechanic Handles the Matter without
Gloves.
SALT LAKE Cry. Utah. July a. 49,

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July a, 1898.
To the Editor of THE HERALD:
notice in the daily Tribune an article
headed ga Few Precepts. To this
your correspondent. being mechanic.
wishes to make a condensed reply.
/ 1t is now plain to be seen that the Re-
publican party have for some time past
been engaged in making bomb shells
which must soon burst and completely
destroy their prestige as party. Now if
their destruction is the work OF their own
hands they may admit their blunders and
take it easy.
AS you are so very anxious 20 charge
the present condition of the country to a
party who has had no power to put one
law into practice for the past thirty years,
Mr.. Republican, we must meet you and
compel you to take the bitter medicine
you have manufactured.
Your aim, as heretofore, is to draw the
attention of the people away from the
arguments that will prove beyond rea-
lsonable doubt that your party legislation
has effected in a great part the present
financial distress,
Did you not in the presence OF fast
increasing population pass the contrac-.
ton policy7 By that act we charge you
with the panic of '73. We charge you
with taking out OF free circulation
millions OF money and burning it, and in
its place putting interest bearing
bonds. Common sense would dictate
different course. We were prosperous
before you put that internal scheme into
force. Since that period we gradually
have been falling away from prosperity.
II Your financial scheme was kept secret
and never embodied in your national
platforms for the people to pass upon. Ii
the tariff case is the cause, as you say, 1t
is not kept secret from the people, but
was embodied in the Democratic platform
, and met their approval.
On the other hand the Republican party
gave the people no chance to take part in
their destructive financial policy, You
we'll know that the intelligence of the
, people would never have allowed the con-
, traction policy to be put into practice
The Republican party that demonetized
silver, the money that has received the
stamp OF the government and that has
acted the part of money for hundreds of
years, never submitted this very import
ant matter to the people. 1t was a con-
spiracy and you dared not let the people
: into the secret, did you? That together
, with the Sherman act deprived silver OF
its power as money and robbed it of its
:. value. and right in the face of this imam
: appear that you are friends to silver. God
, help silver If that is the kind of friendship
| it is to receive. The silver dollar is, or
, was before your act, money of the United
States, stamped and issued to the people
as a dollar. But by your act you ignored
L the stamp and pledge of the government
s and demonetized it and in fact brought
e distress, and you are not honorable
enough to acknowledge your guilt. But
the agreements that congressman will
make concerning the financial state of
e affairs, will prove beyond a reasonable
0 doubt that you betrayed your trust and
brought on the present financial chaos.
You, Mr.. Tribune, say that the mannfac-
turers in this country have been protected
e ny the wall OF American tariff, and will
= admit this fact, but ask you who the
{ devil else has been protected. Here is the
r. question | viii put to you In nut she'll:
If the tariff gives higher wages to the
3 laboring man and mechanic, how is ii
t that outside of the protected industries
/, the mechanic and laborers. get
a higher wages than they do insidef
;. Please explain this in the near future.
: The engineers, fremen and all classes OF
n labcrers get far higher wages than they
do in the protected industries. We do not
n doubt that it was possible for She
% protected capitalists in many instances to
!, pay higher wages, but they did not and
WOulQ nObs NOW II your SySOSlu Vi pro-
: lection secures higher wages. what about
C those unprotected getting higher stilli
n This is what we want you to clear up.
;, | want to give you another pointer, sir.
" If your party are snch great friends to the
s labor interests of the country, why die
l your party ratify the Burlingame treaty
o with China and endeavor to flood the
o. country with class of labor that would
. in few years drive the laboring portion
of our couutrymen to the worst condition
e of degraded servitude?
: Iproclaim the only way you can pro.
s tect by tariff is to place the tariff direct.
U ly upon the article that is coming in com.
:, petition with home article. You never
- can to any great extent protect a me.
) chanic or laborer, except you have thu
o power to place the tariff directly upon ths
; mechanic or laborer that comes here Il
n offer competitor in labor. That great wal
OF protection you speak of only affords
protection to the manufacturer proper
= from the fact you failed to make wall tc
lie keep back the thousands of laborers tina
II are coming from all quarters of the glob,
~ to offer in competition their labor agains
the home product. Hence IL is that tn,
~ manufacturer has a chance to maintain
IS price, but how is IL about the Iaborer
g. Poor fellow, his competitors have no wal
n to keep them back. Steam has afforded
rapid chance for them to emigrate ans
d thousands today are here knocking at tn
,e door of the protected industries, and in
stead of getting the English starvation
prices'' as the Republican papers an,
orators put it, they get not
= cent nor chance to work for cent
ie Now do you suppose, Mr.. Tribune, with
., ell your boosted protection, you can in
he sure good wages to America s toilers wit
at this stubborn fact staring us In the face
os With their false practices and their falls
u system OF education combined, we charg
IL the Republican party with tho presen
deplorable state of the people and coun
e. try. You have been for many years edu
no eating the American adults and yout
- that we could not compete with Englan
ne in the line of manufacture. You hav
as thrown up the sponge, built your Sc
he called protective wall, and prevented on
he chances as a nation from entering ttl
markets of the world in competition wit
other nations. With the vast resource
Mt at our command we should be able t
ne compete with England and educate on
he people that we must and will compete
: Free raw material, if capital in this cour
u try were satisfied with the same rate
On interest as English capital is, would plaC
lg us in condition to compete, as Go