The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-16
NOTICE.
PROVO CITY. JUNE 16. 1891
GEOGRAPHICAL PROTECTION.

Protection, tariff protection, protects
the east only. Not the west nor even
the people of the east, only the manu-
facturers. Protection east is destruc'
ton west. But brief space is necessary
to establish both these propositions. we
think. Relatively speaking the mani
facturers of this country are east OF the
Alleghanies, at least they are east OF
the Mississippi river. The protection
contemplated and actually adopted 10y
the republican party is constructed t0
exclude foreign competition. The peo-
pie, the population of the eastern states,
aye, even the laborers III the New
England mills are unprotected from
the rapacities of the manufacturers
and like the farmers and sll other
classes of people, pay the arbitrary ex-
actions of the lordly masters of the
mills. II this is SO, and we do not be-
ieve there is single reputable paper
in the west of any political party which
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of protection here in The far west where
to these first exactions are to be added
those Of score or two of hungry and
graspIng middle men? In view of all
these circumstances well might Brig
ham Young exclaim, "How can any
Mormon be anything politically other
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eastern states possess advantages over
the great agricultural states of the
west as manufacturing centers which
cannot be overcome. Had we the
same water power, timber, coal, clim-
ate. etc., that they have, we would
still be confronted with the transport
tation problem and the long haul
would murder our aspirations in this
way. Every cent of duty placed upon
raw material is added to first cost. The
mill men do not pay it. Who does?
Not the middle men, not the far west
ern merchant. Who does? Does it
take a seer to answer? None other than
the consumer, the far western farmer,
miner, laborer. and all others who are
compelled to use the protected goods.
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meanS Their employers, their masters.
Under this system has grown up
slav cry which surpasses the old Afri-
can article OF ante bellum DAYS, as the
sun surpasses the taIlow dip in illumin
sting power. If it stopped there it
would not be SO bad. We might con
template it with a degree of calmness.
But it does not. 1t reaches the people
OF all classes here among the lovely
mountains of beautiful Utah, as it
does the wheat growers of level Kan
sas, or the corn growers of the Mis-
sisslppl valley. We toll to raise
wheat, and what the eastern owned
railroads do not exact for transporta-
ton is ilched from US in the exorbitant
prices charged for those manufactured
products for which we trade our pro-
ductions, as well as in the combines,
corners and pools through which our
unfortunate wheat is compelled to |
move. The west, with all her fabu-
lously rich lands is pale, exhausted d
and impoverished because of these ex-
actions. We are to become but slaves
since this great, grand and loving re-
publican party has come to reign over
US. 1t is startling fact that for the
last fifteen years, no farmer in all the
great corn and wheat growing regions
OF the west, has made single dollar
by the legitimate operations ofhis farm
not one, and there is hardly a foot of
land west of the Mississippi which IS
not mortgsged for every dollar 1t is
worth, to eastern men, trust companies
md other cruel and wicked combina-
ions. The interest OF these mortgages
must come with clock like regularity,
n the poor dispairlng farmer and his
amily must 90 naked and seek the !
'peD pralries or rugged mountains for
he only shelter within the reach of the
This is not an overdrawn statement
f one phase Of the evils inflicted by re-
ublican protection. God save US forever I
rom this sort of wolfsh and hyena {
Ike tender care. Is it possible that =
'ig-hearted, generous Utah will by her h
ote next November say to the q
'orld: We are satisfied with republi- u
an protection, which murders thus p
nd licks its bloody chops every time c
groan bursts from the lips of the 4
ZoniZed, dispairing western farmer, !.
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