The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-02
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beets, who have reaped a much great
er harvest from their labors than if
they had continued to raise wheat It
has also kept for home circulation
for awhile-considerable money that
would otherwise have been sent out of
/ the territory for sugar manufactured
elsewhere
All that may be said of any success
full home enterprise conducted on a
large scale. For these, and many
other reasons. the people of Utah
should encourage every practical
movement to produce and manufac-
ture the things we need for home sus-
tenance and comfort And if they de-
sire financial prosperity, they will seek
/ to promote the production of some
thing for exportatio We must bring
money into the territory, because there
are so many things which are at pres
/ ent necessarily imported and which
drain out the circulating medium,
leaving us an insufficient quantity for
home circulation.
We notice that the sugar factory ex-
poets to start a run very shortly to
work up material on hand and, as
stated by persons connected with it,
to take advantage of the rise in the
market. That is cheering and shows
prudence. 1t must not be expected,
and certainly ought not to be demand
ed, that Utah sugar should command
a lower price in the home market
than the imported article. 1t is just
as good and should and does usually
sell for just as much.
The error which some people en-
deavor to promuIgate, that the Utah
sugar product saves to the people a
large amount through the reduction
in price, is very mischievous. It is
wrong, because it is untrue. and it has
the effect of causing the consumer to
expect the home article at lower
price than the imported. a little re-
Election Will show that the price of
sugar is not regulated by one compar-
atively small output, but by the great
markets of the country.
In arguing for bounties, it is often
asserted that the people of Utah re-
.ceive back in the reduced price of the
article, all and more than they paid
out. That this is a piece of pure de-
eeption will be easily determined by
comparing the prices of the home and
imported article. Also by the fact
that there is no difference in the price
to the Idaho, or Wyoming or other
outside purchaser than to the home
consumer.
The argument for bounties to beet
growers. proposed by the Republicans
in the last Utah legislature, is COM
pletely fattened out by the published
fact that, without bounties, the beet
growers make half dozen times
more from their lands than if they
grew wheat. To make the wheat
grower, the potato-grower, the me-
chanic, the laborer, pay taxes to give
greater profits to the beet-raiser who,
as shown by bounty advocates, has
made such immense gains over those
of his fellow agriculturists, is nothing
less than robbery in the name of law.
The bounty system is class legisla-
ton. It confers special privileges on
a few and is subversive of the prin-
ciple of equal rights to ALL
Let no one be beguiled into the fall
lacy that only bounty advocates are
the friends of home industry. That is
a piece of pure deception. If you start
in to support some particular line of
Industry by taxation, where viii you
stop? There is not a branch of home
manufactures which, if successful is
not a public benefit. Why support one
out of the public treasury and deny
help to others? And where does the
money come from for the bounty, if
not out of the pockets of the taxpay-
ers? Commence the system and where
is the limit?
1t will be found on investigation that
as many Democrats who are opposed
to bounties invest their money in home
enterprises. or as much of their money
is invested therein, as comes from the
bounty Chalmers, And that Demo-
Gratis are as ready to support home in
dustries by the equitable, natural and
consistent principle of purchasing and
using their home products as any Re
publican bounty promoters are, is in
controverdble.
If people desire to establish or aid
in the establishment of any new enter
prise which gives promise of success,
let them donate or loan or invest their
money in it as they choose. But do
not let them attempt to force others
who are not willing to assist in that
way, to bear part of the burden by tax
ing them against their wish ana pro-
test, to promote a private enterprise
out of the public funds. That is in
justice, oppression, plumber.
There are arguments which are very
specious in favor of promoting large
enterprises likely to become public
benefit by appropriations from the pub
lie funds. Exceptional cases arise which
appeal to this concession. The danger
springs from departure from the
strict rule of correct principle in this