The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-18


manufacturers upon the position of the
tariff question.
/ confess that had some hopes that
President Cleveland, with his usual
good Judgment, would realize the sit
uation and decide that, owing TO exist
| ing conditions, the nation as a patient,
| is not in condition to undergo a sur
gical operation, even from the point of
view of those who think that an oper-
alton is required for its permanent
health. This has not been done, and
the patient is to be operated upon I'M
mediately.
Whatever difference of opinion may
exist as to the wisdom Of this decision,
ali will agree that IF 'twere done,
when It's done, then 'twere well that
| 'twere done quickly Every days de-
| lay will alarm and exhaust the patient.
Six months discussion of the Wilson
bill, with its varying fortunes, means
six months of stagnation in business,
and perhaps such a brood of failures
as we have not yet seen.
Rather than encounter this I believe
the Democratic party would make rea-
sonable notifications in the Wilson
bill. There are quite enough Democrat
| ic Senators who would unite with the
Republicans upon the platform of mod
crate concessions, and the danger OF
the peace of the country, in my opin-
Republican Senators may refuse to CO.
operate with these. The question with
some will naturally be: Is it good
party policy?
1 do not assume to speak for the man
ufacturers of the United States, but
know l speak for some of them when
[ respectfully urge that it would be in
finitely better to have a. moderately
satisfactory tariff bill passed by the
Democratic party than even more
satisfactory bill passed by the Repub-
| lican party.
It must be acknowledged that large
number of the people have been led to
believe that the present tariff is UNJUST;
that it favors the few at the expense
of the many. Employers and employ
ed have been set at variance, and much
| ill-feeling has been aroused. 1t is not
a sufficient answer. to say that this dis
satisfaction is groundless. 1t is suf-
ficient that it exists; and what 1 wish
to submit to my brother manufacture
ers is that the first consideration
should be the total oblteration of this
dissatisfaction. Is it not far better for
manufacturers, as a class, to have the
party which has opposed the present
tariff frame a tariff which shall pass
as just to all interests, and for which
| it is responsible? Should the Demo-
its own work, and it will be stopped
from attacking it as made for the few
and not for the general interests Of the
nation. The question would be re-
moved from politics for many years.
The party who made it could not at
tack it, and the other party would
have no disposition to do so.
I submit that it is far better to OBJ
tain a moderate Democratic tariff bill,
securing us stability and permanence
satisfactory to ALL rather than high
protective bill passed by the Republic
can party, and certain to be the object
iof continual political attack. We all
know that uncertainty in regard to
import duties is ruinous to our inter
ests.
Partisanship is all very well. but
when the question before us, as we all
believe, involves the prosperity of our
country, no supposed party advantage
should be allowed to prevent a settle
ment, which, if not all that could be
desired, would yet be most desirable
under the circumstances.
I am not without grounds for believ-
| ing that it is in the power of the Re
publicans in the Senate to obtain the
necessary notifications required in the
Wilson bill to make it one such as our
industrial system can adapt itself to
and prosper under The position that
the Republican party took as to it's
duty to support President Cleveland's
silver policy l believe to be it's duty to
take in regard to the tariff.
What seems most desirable in the in
terests of manufacturers of the United
States is that a tariff bill should be
passed by the Democratic party, and
thereby that the suspicion that even
one "robber tariff baron exists in the
broad domain of the republic cannot
remain in the mind of the most ignor-
ant citizen. I for one am quite ready
Ito accept greatly reduced duties-ju-
diciously framed-to accomplish this
result. Yours very truly,
ANDREW CARNEGIE.