The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-20

/ have searched for thee, Eureka
Come. my lean friend, thou spare and
bareboned starving of the earth's
crust" he led the way to a bench out
side a corner drug store. ''Sit here; I'M
burden the message thou hast in thy
head piece Ia
Il haint a great hand at arguin'. but
you bet I'm fer perfection. 1t keeps
up the wages of the laborin' man and
keeps us from workin' for the wages
paid in Europe. 1t makes us a home
market fer our hay and farm stuff,
and
Excuse me right there" mercifully
interiected the philosopher. Can you
tell me what they say are the prin-
cipal products of Utah?"
why. He took his hat off and
scratched his head to stir his head
piece into action, lead and wool,
b'lieve'
you are right. Then if the lead and
wool men create home market, you
sold your hay that you brought in this
morning to a lead or wool MANI?
mo. sir. I didn't. Never sold a pound
of hay to one in my life, not that
knows Of" said the lean man with the
ginger beard.
I'm surprised-Sut proceed"
I'm no hand at arguin', but I'll be
derned if | kin Sc how free trade'll help
u.s."
'.That isn't the question. You prom
Used to enlighten me; proceed.
well it's like this: P'wee tomatoes
told us all about it. 1t it wasn't fer
McKinley's bill we wouldn't get any
price at all fer our grain and farm
stuff. or would get free trade prices.
He said we'd all starve under free
trade. and-well. 1 guess that you
know more bout this tariff than 1 do.
, IL. oil rNf
my lean son of the SOIL, said the
philosopher, .'the Republican party has
been telling you for years that the tar
Tiff was as sacred as the white ele-
phant of India 1t was too sacred to be
defiled by the touch of your horny
hands. That it required statesmen and
men with domes Of thought protruding
Ger thoughtful and penetrating eyes
whose depths held mighty economic
secrets. And if a farmer or a laboring
man probed a. hole into his seat of
thought and poked some facts in
through the hole, it was treason to the
party. You should not think for your
selves. Absurd. The great Republican
plutocracy had set apart men to think
for you. They have bamboozled you by
talking plausibly about higher wages,
the home market, ETC., and waving
furiously the flag in one hand, while
with the other hand they flirted with
the foreign vote. If P'wee Tomato, or
some lesser light with more sense, told
you there was tariff on wheat, it was
probably the only strictly true state
ment he made during the evening.
There is a tariff on wheat, and as we
import only seed wheat, new varieties
from other lands that we desire to try
IN our soil, that same tariff makes the
farmer pay Is cents per bushel for his
samples of seed wheat That is the
benefit you derive from it.
I'VE have surplus of agricultural
products. Where do you seek a mar
ket for your farm products-in Cotton
wood?
Not much; everybody has all they
want"
Exactly. It's the seme with this
nation. We have 70 sell our surplus
farm products. We cannot make the
people eat more than they do. and
therefore we nave to sell it or trade to
nations which do not produce enough
to feed their own people. All our sur
plus farm products we sell in the open
markets of the world in competition
with every nation. The proceeds of
our sales we bring home and buy what
we need for ourselves and families in a
protected market, pay tribute to the
!4oVO millionaire manufacturers and the
40 trusts. The farm products that we
sell at nome we do not get a. higher
price for than those we sell abroad
HoW's that?''' asks the lean man. as
ne stroked his. ginger beard.
because Liverpool makes the price
!or our grains, and what is sold at
nome is regulated by the price in Liv-
erpool. DO you get any more for wheat
lnat you sell to home millers than for
that which is sold TO some buyer who
shlps to the Chicago or Liverpool mar
ket?" va -4i'i
Never did yet" said the lean man.
And you never will,'' continued the
philosopher. P'wee gave YOU a scare
ABOUT free trade prices, did he? WHY
can you see that the farmer has al
ways mad free trade prices for his pro-
duets! And you have always paid high
p[otectlen prices for your necessities.
they hoodWink you. And they make it
as plain to you as a chipmunk on the
other side of stone wall. They talk
to you about higher wages. Don't Won
KNOW that the men who own our manu-
Featuring industries are working for
what money there is in il. and are
not actuated by any kindly motives
towards the laboring men. If Ameri-
cans won't work cheap enough they i'm
port men who will. It's struggle with
them to see who can pile up the high
est pyramid of gold-they despise silver
and the laboring man is but factor
in their scheme. If they can displace a
hundred men by one piece of machinery
do they hesitate?"
Il guess not" muttered the lean
man.
Protection is a fine word-a catchy
word-but it grinds you and me end
every toiler and makes us pay tribute
to a wealthy class. Why my dear
friend" continued the philosopher
earnestly, '25,000 men own half the
wealth of this country and you and
and your neighbors and my neighbors
helped them to get it. Supinely allowed
ourselves to be taxed and taxed, year
after year, and add to the pyramid of
gold
Don't lend your ear to the sophists
who blatantly howl about pauper labor
freedom and home market. Don't"
There's the Murray car-nny old wo-
man II be lookin for me-" The lean
man held out his earth encrusted hand
and grasped the philosophers warmly
. I'm goin' to vote for honest Joe, you
kin bet yer" The bell rang and the
lean man with the ginger beard made
a bee line for the car The philosopher
smiled until the awkward runner swung
himself onto the car step. then he
entered the drugstore and asked for an
alfalfa shakedown. G. E. B.
MASONIC ELECTION.
Boston, Sept. 19-The supreme council of
sovereign grand inspectors general for the
thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Masons
today elected fhese ,,fficerS. Soverei or