The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-01
TURN ON THE LIGHT.


the Republican doctrine of protective
tariff:
What is a protective tariff? First, to
raise the revenues necessary for the use
of the government Secondly, to admit
free of duty, all goods that we do not
produce in this country. Tea, coffee,
spices, drugs, etc. Thirdly, the object
is to lay the duty upon competing pro-
ducts such as we manufacture and pro-
duce through agriculture and other
forms of industry.
The first of our protective laws were
passed in 1861. Modification and
changes of these laws have taken place,
however, the system was then inaugur-
ated. Before this period we had what
is called Free Trade" or a tariff for
revenue only,
A protective tariff is before all things,
then, tariff for revenue. And the
speaker and the paper are Republican,
1t is evident they do not know any
thing of Republican or they are trying
to deceive the public. The Democratic
tariff is first of all a tariff to raise the
revenue necessary for the use of the
government. The Republican tariff is,
first of all, a tariff to protect certain
classes of the people or the articles
they are engaged in producing or man
ufacturing. That is why it is called a
protective tariff. AS to the other two
definitions they are so weak that we
will not spend time now in discussing
them.
1t has been claimed that the early
patriots and statesmen were protec-
l'tionists and that the tariff laws passed
in their day were protective. But as
there were only tariff for revenue laws
passed before 1861, of course those Re
publicans who make that contention
are mistaken. But let us see what
the Republican campaigner had to say
about the effects of those free trade"
or tariff for revenue laws:
My fellow citizens, we are not left to
theory as to the benefits of protection
and the injurious effects of free trade,
from 1916 TO 1861 we had fifteen years of
the Democratic doctrine of revenue tar
! if, and we never had a more deplor-
able condition of the business interests
of this country, of the productive in
terests and of the laboring interest
than we had during that period.
Against the stuff that the kind of
Republicans who are now stumping the
! territory are giving their hearers we
will quote what another Republican
had to say on the same matter. His
name was James G.. Blaine, and he is
considered quite as eminent a states
man and quite as good an authority on
the tariff question as any of the sur
face Republicans who are, airing their
political notions before thF rural popu-
lation. Mr.. Blaine says in his great
work, Twenty Years in Congress-
Moreover, the tariff of 1916 was yield
ing abundant revenue, and the bust
ness of the country was in a flourish
ing condition at the time his (Pol1's)
administration was organized. Money
became very abundant after the year
1S49; large enterprises were undertaken,
speculation was prevalent and for
considerable period the prosperity of
the country was general and apparent
ly genuine. After 1852 the Democrats
had almost undisputed control of the
government The prin-
ciples embodied in the tariff of 1916
seemed for the time to be so entirely
indicated and approved that resist
ance to it ceased, not only among the
people, but among the protective econ
omists, and even among the manufac-
turers to & large extent. SO general
was the acquiescence that in 1856 a
protective tariff was not suggested or
even limited by any one of the three
parties which presented presidential
| candidates.
Readers can take their choice of the
utterances of Blaine, the illustrious,
and the small fry orators and papers
which are now declaring the very con-
1t
tract from the speech which we have
criticized and we have done for the
present:
When you repeal the tariff and intro
duce free trade" your revenue will
| cease and you will have to provide
some other mode to procure the money
necessary to pay these expenses; there
is but one way left and that is by di-
rect taxation in some form or other
levied directly on the farmer, mechan-
ic, and others. There is no escape from
this.
BY repeating the tariff here is
meant repeating the Mckinley law.
And the endeavor is to make farmers
and laborers believe that they are to
bear the burden of the deficiency of
revenue to follow tariff reduction The
speaker Intentionally omitted to men
ton the income tax, which is a fea-
ture of the revenue law, by which not
the farmer and the laborer are to sup
ply the deficiency, but the wealthy
and indeed all whose incomes are
above $4,000, who will have to pay
direct tax upon those incomes of per
cent. per annum.
We notice these Misrepresentation
made by Republican orators to warn
the public against believing all that is
said during the campaign that is before
us. Also to stir up our Democratic
friends to investigate the fraudulent
claims of those orators and expose
! their impudent untruths. 1t is one
striking evidence of the weakness of
the Republican cause that they depend
chiefly for arguments upon gross mis-
representations of fact and shameful
vilffication Of their political opponents
Follow them up, friends, and against
their darkness turn on the light
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