The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-01-30
PROVO CIT JAN. 30. 189
PROTECTION from TWO POINTS.

The emp ing manufacturer looks
at protection iron entirely differ
ent stand point fr9r hat occupied by
his employees and tire eonsumers of his
wares. His business is to excl ude
competition. He g toT monopoly, but
has it eyer been said that when he can
fix his own prlce on an article his
workmen get the difference in prices
brought about by this condition, in in
creased wages, or does the consumer buy
at a lower price2 Protection was never
designed to protect all the parties in
interest. 1t was projected only to pro-
tect the owners, not the wage workers
or the consumers of the product. Sup
pose the manufacture of type-settlng
machines was protected by a heavy
tariff, say prohibitory tariff, would
that protect either the men who did
the labor on them or the tolling printers
who are displaced by the machine.
Which class are the protectionists en-
deavoring to serve in this enterprite?
A tariff on wool protects whom? The
mills2 No. The operatiyes2 No. The
consumers? No. Who then? Simply
the wool growers who get small price
more per pound. What relation do
the wool growers of the nation bear to
the remainder of the people? Is it not
about one to every fifteen thousand?
Does the good old doctrine of the great
est good to the greatest number de-
mand that we protect the grower and
permit all the other parties in interest
to take care ofthemselyes?
If sugar production is to be protected
or bonussed, which is the same thing,
how much are the wheat growers, the
orchard men, the mechanics, the law
vars- -thA.ae IL srit5IT Che" I'll gerrrHI
public benefited? Protection is
precious boon to monopoly but it is
rank death to the consumers, to those
engaged in other pursuits, to the tax
PAYERS as well. Protection isn't for
the masses; it is solely and only for the
monopolists. A protected or bon
ussed industry is not Independent. 1t
is dependent. 1t has no life in it
which is of permanent value to the
general business of the land. 1t is
simply leach upon. the body polite,
adding nothing to the taxable volumes,
doing no good save only to those who
run it. The south is now making iron
and spinning cotton cheaper than they
can make or manufacture these pro-
ducts anywhere else in the United
States. The southerners are much like
other people. If they can get an advan-
tage for their iron mills or cotton
looms from the government, they will
do so. They loudly cry for protection.
Our protectionists here point to this
cry as the voice of the south. 1t is
only the voice Of the mills, the mnnop-
olists, not the voice of the farmers, the
planters, the mechanics, the wage.
earners, in short the people. The
of the southerners are as they
have ALWAYS be n, free traders. The
voice of the one class calling for pro
lection is not the voice Of the people.
The protection of one class or one
man is the death of the other class and
other men interested. Suppose silver
was today the money it was prior to !
'73, how much necessity would there
be for protection in Utah? Who
would care for it? We would l
dig and smelt our silver and go into
5he markets where we could buy the
that which we need, or where
We could sell our silver bullion for the ]
most money. That is all there is to /
I. All this protection or subsidy is
slse stimulation, ,unwholesome and de-
,eptive in every way. The country
blacksmith goes into a neighborhood
where there is work to be done. He :
ioes not go into the wilderness and
hen wait for, or seek to subsidize /
people to settle round him. g
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