The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-19
PROVO CITY.
THE ADDRESS ON TARIFF.

AS on the subject of free coinage, the
most admirable addr ess of the demo
cratic convention on Saturday last
was sweeping, pronounced and explicit
On the tariff question. The Utah
democrats demand the speedy passage
of the tariff bill now pending in the
senate and assail the obstruction tac-
tics of the republican minority in that
body. The times are hard AMI grow
ing harder day by day, and the repub-
llcan papers and party authorities
claim that this is the effect Of appre
heneion in case violent hands are laid
upon the enormous exactions of the
Mckinley law. The facts are that we
are now doing business as we have
been doing for four years, under the
provisions of that law as yet un-
touched. Added to this the republi-
cans claim that the prevailing uncer-
tainty on the tariff is a cruel ingredi-
ent in the sum of these evils, and yet
they prol ong this harassing condition
by every trick known to ward poiiti-
clans of the Tom Reed order. The
party of progress, Of pretense and
piety, does not hesitate to oDstruct and
thwart the will of the people by tricks
and evasions which would disgrace a
sanhedrim of pugilists. All this the
address condemns severely, and in Wig
o-ous and convincing words, 1t de-
mands that the tariff law shall not be
mutilated by the expunging of the in
come tax clause. The Utah democrats
demand that the rich, not the poor, be
saddIed with the expenses of the gov
ernment.
The proposition to place the
heaviest tax upon the luxuries Of life
rather than the necessaries, is another
proposition to relieve the poor from as
much of the burden of the support of
government as is possible, and it cannot
but commend itself to the approval of
the poor, the distressed laboring
masses and the farmers, especially of
the west. The bounty policy is Sc
verely arraigned in few choice words.
The taxing Of The masses for enriching
the few. The - m taxes all
e = HA ~Fden fails
upon the poor who caHh g. 9 st afford it,
while it returns to the rich who have
their money invested in manufacture
ing enterprises in securing sure re-
turns for their Investment, say in the
Lehi Sugar mills. The tariff plank in
the Utah democratic platform is
worthy to be copied into the national
platform without the changing of sim
gle word.
This address is found to be a thorn in
the side of those republican papers
which claim that our financial woes
come from the operations of a law
which is not on the statute books,
which is not in existence. But on this
subject the republican papers of Utah
are at war. The Enquirer of this city
alone claims that no part of our fnau-
cial troubles come from demonetiEa-
tion, but proceed alone from the fear
of free trade, or, more properly, free
wool. All of its intellectual (?) force
is freely expended in the cause OF the
sheep men, the wool growers. The
Tribune and the Standard as Justify
place the causes upon the destruction
of the money functions of silver and
TO the consequent shrinkage in our
money supply to less than one-half of
what it was before '73, when, even
then, our supply was inadequate.
And they are right beyond doubt.
The manufactures are silent, not
from apprehension Of future tariff pol
icies, but because of the vast contrac-
tion caused by demonetization, thus
rendering the masses of the people too
poor to buy their products. To the
policy of contraction alone is to be
ascribed the distresses of the manufac-
turers, They would run their mills if
they coIld sell. They could sell if
there was money with which to buy,
There would be plenty OF money if
the republican party had not demone-
tized silver in '73.
According to the Enquirer the res
toration of a tariff law yet in force,
would set the mills to work. Here's |
logic for you. And also that by increas-
ing our money Of ultimate redemption |
we would have less money with which |
20 purchase the products of the mills. |
Here again is dense logic for the
masses. 1t is true the Enquirer
does not say these things exactly in
these words, but what it does say is
tantamount to this. Is it possible !
that we have people in Utah so ignor-
ant that they can be caught by an ar
gument as fimsY, as childish or as ri
diculous as this?