The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-25
THE TARIFF ISSUE.

In a recent issue the Nail and Elk
press said:
Therefore, it is well to keep the tariff
issue paramount until it shall be set
tied decisiyely. That win be done by
the next administration. The election
of 1896 will fiX the economical policy OF
the country.
1t is well to keep the tariff issue par
amount, for II is not yet settled.
Whether it will be settled by the next
administration remains to be seen. 1t
is certain that the Republicans will try
to reinstate the Mckinley bill or enact
some other bill as bad or worse, and it
is equally as certain that the Demo
Gratis will fight it.
The one issue in this country that is
perennial is the tariff, because through
its manipulation trusts and monopolies
of gigantic size have grown UP and
they have been nourished by the gov
eminent at the expense of the people.
To assume that they will cease their
efforts to still bleed the people is to
assume that a rCbber will voluntarily
restore his plumber or that the high
wayman will forsake his vocation be-
cause of one repulse.
Nor will the people any longer sub
NIT to be used as a means for the ad-
vancement of the few and the degrade
ton of the many. They have come to
realize that the greatest power in the
government, the power to tax, has
been handed over to a favored few.
Willing to bear any burdens to save
the country, they cheerfully submitted
to the heavy duties of the Morrill, tariff.
The duties laid under that law We're
far less than those imposed by the ini-
quitous Mckinley law, and yet they
were enough to carry on one of the
greatest wars in history. But that war
closed these thirty years ago, yet every
tariff bill passed since then, until the
bill just passed by Democratic Con-
gress, has increased the tariff. Was
there a necessity for this? There was
none; but the beneficiaries of tariff
taxes discovered that the cry of more
tariff and more protection served the
same purpose that did the cry of "Ses-
ame:" it unlocked the doors to untold
wealth.
lutte free trade between the states
composing the Union; resources unpar-
alleled and ineXhaustable; nature law
ish in all her gifts to a chosen land; a
people free, proud and filled with an
energy to move the world, the country
prosrered as never prospered before
But during all this long period of hap
piness and prosperity the canller was
in the Nations blood Slowly but surely
sapping its vitality. That canker was
protection, and yet the Republicans for
thirty years and more have been tell
ing to the people that this protection
was the principle of life when it was
the principle of DEATH So strong
was the Nation, so great its
vitality that it grew great in wealth
and prosperity Notwithstanding the pro-
lection in its blood. But the insidious
poison has done it's work, and peace
and prosperity are gone, and in their
stead have come strikes and labor dis
turbances and financial depression.
The tariff is still the issue and will
be until the burdens laid on the people
for the benefit of the favored trusts
and monopalists are removed And the
people today recognize that their pros
perity in the past was owing to the
gifts of nature and the capacity and
energy of the American people, and
not to the protectionist legislation of
the Republican party.