The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-06
HIS MORTGAGE.

Remember that the great farm
staples do not tend rapidly TO fall in
price. Throughout all history their
value has been remarkably stable-so
stable that many economists have ad-
vocated making the cereals in par
ticular, the measure of values instead
of gold and silver. On the other hand.
history shows that the products OF
manufacture tend to fall rapidly in
price, because of the concentration of
effort. the diversion of labor. and the
apparently endless opportunities for the
application of machinery. that are pos
sible and usual in manufacture.
( The fact. then. that manufactures
have fallen in price in the last thirty
years, is nothing unusual. 1t is just
what we should expect. Manufactures
I are always falling in price, from the
| progress of invention. But the above
noted fall in the price of farm products
is unprecedented, and shows to what
the American farmer must shortly
come, if protection continues.
The tariff mule" Of the New York
World thus clearly and truthfully states
the question at issue:
] ne IDD ldLllL lIASl5 SLdIlQ illultLEt4
| before the people. The Indictment has
been read. The evidence that they
/ have stolen and are still stealing $685.
100000 yearly has been offered. Their
ipaid counsel in the United States Sen
| ate are now pleading in their behalf.
+ And what are the pleas they advance
What evidence do they propose to offer
that the trusts have not stolen?
THE only plea put forward by any
/ Of their counsel in eXtenuatiOn of the
thefts is that in other countries where
/ this theft is not permitted these people
are not so prosperous as they are in
this country, where the thefts are not
only permitted, but legalized by act of
/ Congress. Their counsel offer to try
the people of other countries to prove
that honesty is not the best policy or
free trade so good as protection.
That is not the question at issue.
! Did or did not the Sugar Trust. in the
year 1890. obtain $4,000 900 by false pre-
tense and by fraud? Did it obtain S19-
500 900 in 1891 and $40. 000 900 in the year
1892 by false pretenses and fraud? Did
it obtain So. 600 900 in the year 1895 by
false pretense and fraud? Does not the
anthracite coal pool take $50, OO0. 600 from
the peoples pockets every year by false
pretense and fraud? Do not the twenty
eight wooden trusts take SIS. 900. 900 a
year from the people by false pretense
and fraud2 And so on through the list
l u6Se dIc the questions at issue. 10
the evidence that they do. the counsel
for the thieves have no reply to make"
When the defenders Of war taxes and
monopoly are pressed into this corner,
they adopt Mr.. Budge's tactics and
say ''Iet US talk about home industry"
AS to that. the Democrats Of this coun-
try and Democratic principles are at
least as friendly as any Republicans,
lean be. The reforms in the tariff which
Democrats desire are expected to slim
iulate and increase home industries Any
statements of protectonists to the con-
trary are deceptive and founded either
lon falsehood or a misconception of the
truth.
The great burdens which have been
pressing on the shoulders of the agri-
cultural classes for years must be lifted.
And when the effects of deHverance
from the high tariffs begin to be felt.
although. probably there will be mo-
lnopoIsts and capitalists who will clamor
for a return to protection. the millions
of the American people will see to it
that instead of the robber tariff being
restored. the reform commenced shall
go on until the only tariff imposed shall
be solely for revenue. according to the
spirit and meaning Of the constitution.