The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-08-16
1T WILL DO NO GOOD.


people vast chunks of comfort that the
tariff law Twill do no good" as the Tri-
buue says. Even the democrats ought
to shout oyer this clear headed propo-
sition. OF course national legislation.
which is proverbially costly, Is designed
to "do no good. +" mo good" and
western men rejoice at it. Are west
ern men all mill men? Are any con-
siderable number of them manutac-
turers? Are not the vast majority OF
them farmersP Are they not inter
ested in the cheapening of those
manufactured products which they ale
compelled to buy? The Tribune would
have been nearer right had it Said,
cit will do no good to the monoplistic
manufacturer; it will do no good to the.
corporate robber; it will do no good to
the trusts, combines and other classes
of despoilers of the poor. 1t will do the
laborers who toll for mere pittance
some good to be able to purchase their
supplies at the lower price mentioned
by the Tribune. The farmers will ex-
perience tie same relief which the
mill laborers will experience. So, too,
of tile lsboring miners, the laboring
stockmen, and in fact and in short all
save the rich, or the monopolists. The
half measure of reform represented by
the senate bill will prove half relief to
tha classes we name. Perhaps he
railroad owners will look with indif-
ference upon this measure of reform SO
long as it does not interfere with the
volume of freight they convey or the
prices at which they haul, But it is
different matter quite to their army of
employees. Twenty per cent. reduction
in the cost OF what they are compelled
to buy represents q twenty per cent,
increase of wages. 1t is the same.
This OF course in the eyes of reaso ners,
Of the Tribune stamp is mo good, !"
The world will not so regard it. What
a perverted nature it must be which
only considers, in. matters like this, the
good of the rich. of the large operators
instead of those of the poor and the
struggling.
We regret hat the original Wilson bill
did not become law because in that
case instead of this half relief we
would BOON be enjoying the full meas
urr of relief contemplated by the bill
and by the democratic policy in the
tariff matter. How confident is the
Tribune that no relief will follow the
passage of the senate bill. True, the
trusts, monopolies and combinations
will feel but little, if any relief. But
the democratic party is not on record
As catering especially for that class.
1t is rather trying to bring relief to
those who need it more, the poor, the un-
protected poor of the country, who have
never cost the republican party a NOM
ent's thought, but whom the democ-
rac1 have considered always rather
than the rich and the powerful who
are abundantly able to protect them
selves and whose hesrthstones are
rather farther removed from the ap-
proach OF the wolves.
The Tribune can get no argument
out of Us on the general lmbecility of
the republican legislation to destroy the
m lEey functions of silver. There is
where the trouble came IN, not the
simple repeal of the Sherman act. But
for that original bit of treachery to the
people, the Sherman purchase law
would never have been necessary. 1t
is q false point our big contemporary
raises. The odium of depreciating sill
yer commenced in '73 by the legisla-
lative trickery of this same republican
leader who fathered the purchase law.
The stsgnation ascribable to the les
sened price of silver is due to '73, not to
80 as the Tribune would have US bes
LieVe. Albeit the same republican
leader is responsible for the lat
ter. If the Tribune we're to abandon
its ugly practice of raising false points
and were to stick to the straight logic
Of the situation it might not rank 30
high rs republican authority, but the
cause of truth would be the gamer.