The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-20
THESE ARE THE FACTS.

Whenever our protectionist neighbor
gets ratified. look out for contradict
ory statements and reckless and incon-
sistent assertions. And it always gets
ratified when driven into a corner. The
facts and figures presented by The
Herald in relation to the difference
to the purchaser caused by the tariff
on wool and woolens, upset SO com
pletely the wild propositions of our
neighbor that its fury is only equalled
by its folly
Let us make a few comparisons of
its statements on this question, seeing
that it cannot let it alone after its
errors have been thoroughly ripped
open and their shoddy exposed. Yes
terday it said:
All the time The Herald has con-
tinued to harp upon the tax on cloth.
We said nothing about cloth, except
that TO strike off the tariff from wool
would not reduce the price of the cloth
in suit Of clothes to exceed $1.5O.
Here is what it said on January II:
TT will be seen that it is exactly as
the Tribune said last week; the chief
difference in the cost of a suit of clothes
in this country and across the sea is in
the cost of making it, and that if the
tariff were removed altogether it
would not amount to more than 81 so
difference in a suit
The whole argument in the Tribune
editorial of the 18th inst was based on
the opening sentence, which was:
THE cost of the cloth in a suit of
clothes in this country and across the
sea is analysed in the following:
Now it flies into rage and accuses
The Herald of lodging" because for
sooth it claims that it said nothing
about cloth"
On the 10th inst. it tackled the SUBJ
ject in this way:
"Woolen clothing such as the ordi-
nary working man wears, is as cheap
here as it is anywhere, and the cloth
is cheaper than it is beyond the sea-"
Now we will take a sentence from the
same editorial in which the contention
is pretended to be. nothing to do
with cloth" In that article on the 18th
inst. the Tribune said:
1.-THE cloth for an ordinary suit of
clothes in this country can be bought
as cheaply as in London"
Just observe the lodging and contra
dictions of this champion of so-calIed
'protection:'' When we prove by the
actual cost of cloth in England and
its cost in this country the great differ
ence in the two. it declares: I'VE said
nothing about cloth" When it affirms
and repeats that 1.-THE chief difference
in the cost of suit of
clothes in this country and
across the sea is the cost of max
ing it." and we publish the prices paid
for making coats, vests and panta-
looms in this country and in England,
it flies into a passion and says it was
only talking about the difference caus-
ed by the tariff on wool.
Now. we would pay no further atten-
ton to such a lodging, self-contradic-
tory and furious opponent but for the
attempt which it makes to deceive the
public in regard to the matter of tar
if reform. The Tribune says:
1.-THE whole question resolved back
is that the excuse for throwing off
the tariff from American wool in order
to get clothing cheaper to American
Deople is a faiSehoOd"
If that is a correct statement the
facts ought to be made to appear. If
it is not the people ought to know it.
To those who have purchased clothing
in Europe and also in this country.
we need offer no argument to prove
that the statement that Ordinary
wooden clothing is as cheap here as
and that the cloth is cheap
er than it is beyond the sea- is to-
tally and absurdly untrue. But peo-
pie who have not made such purchases
may not know any better.
If any one is in doubt, let him ask
an honest merchant tailor the differ
ence in prices OF cloth in the two coun-
tries. and also the difference in the
cost of made up clothing as well as
that made to order
But there is evidence that everybody
can obtain without depending on 9TH
ers. Take the provisions of the Nc
Kinley law as to wooden cloths. We
will just cite one:
ION wooden or worsted cloths, knit
fabrics and all manufactures of every
description made wholly or in part of
wool. etc, etc, valued at above
forty cents per pound, the duty per
pound shall be four times the duty
imposed by this act on pound of I'M
washed wool of the hrst-class, and in
addition thereto fifty per cent. ad val
orem- Sec 1872.
The duty on the wool mentioned is
Il cents a. pound. If the cloth weighs
&c ounces to the yard, which is medium