The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-06
sHILLINGs PER WEEK.

II clothing and other expenses were
counted in. Australia would be ahead.
Free trade England is ahead of all her
protected neighbors
Food is cheaper in the United States
than in any other country 1t is the
farmers product. Everything the
farmer has to sell. is cheaper than it
is in the great markets of Europe.
Every manufactured article he has to
buy is dearer than it is in the great
markets of Europe. These two SEN
fences tell the whole story. The farmer
buys dear and sells cheap. Every
thing he sells is from 10 to 50 per cent.
cheaper, everything he buys is from &c
to 80 per cent. dearer. than in Europe.
The fact that Providence gave him a
rich farm for nothing, which the
European laborer cannot get, makes
him just that much better off than the
European But the tariff tax takes
part of what he and nature. produce out
of his farm. and gives to millionaire
trust-owners. And there are men 50
supplemented as to say that this TAX
ing from the poor farmer to give to
the rich factory owner is building up
home industry This is Mr. Budge's
idea, and this is what he is deluding
himself and his followers into believing.
Wheat in Utah is 40 cents a bushel;
| in London 80 cents. and a like com
parison holds for nearly all the great
farm staples-they are cheaper here
than in Europe. But how is it with
the manufactured articles produced by
any of the $50 trusts? They are dearer
here than in Europe.
White lead sells for cents in the
| foreign market and II cents here; soda.
IL cents on the foreign market and E
cents here; window glass. above 16
inches square, 2 cents pound on the
foreign market and cents here; plate
glass. % cents a square foot there and
IS cents here; pig iron, $11 per ton there
and SIT here; iron for building purposes.
l Ito cents pound there and. BIO
cents pound here; sugar, cents there
and cents here; the blanket that costs
| 50 cents a pound there sells for So cents
pound here; the cloak that sells for
! 81 there sells for 1910 here; women's
and children's dress goods that sell for
Is cents yard there sell for "a cents a
yard here; the flannel that sells for 20
cents a yard there sells for 81 cents a
yard here; the wool hat that sells for
SO cents there sells for St.10 here; the
knit goods that cost 26 cents a pound
there cost As cents here; shawls costing
63 cents a pound there cost $1.5S here;
and SO on.
That is how the tariff hurts the
American people. But these articles
are sent abroad and sold abroad at the
foreign prices. American copper sells
in England at! from l to 4 cents per
pound cheaper than it sells in this
lcountry. American refined sugar is
sold from n to l cent cheaper in Eng
land than at the Brooklyn reineries.
| American sewing machines, spades,
shovels axes, hammers, plows, rifles,
revolvers, and nearly every other
article manufactured is sold cheaper to
foreigners than to Americans. The
tariff makes this robbery possible. The
only question to be debated is this:
Is robbery justifiable?
Mr. Bulge says:
But deny that, when a succession OF
years is taken, the consumer pays q cent
tax by reason of the tariff, and assert on
the contrary that he is absolutely a gamer
in the way of cheaper goods than ne was
before the tariff was laid. In evidence OF
this assertion / submit the following table
! showing the prices of goods in the free
trade days in 1860, and their prices under
protection in 1892: