The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-04

of Logan called attention to the fac
proven by advertisements in the trade
journals that the manufacturers OF
nearly every. article which is made ir
the United States charge the home con-
sumner from 10 per cent. to 80 per cent
more than they sell the same article
to the foreigners.
Mr. Paul stated that yesterday he
had ascertained the price of revolversi
guns, sporting goods and hardware
from the largest dealers in this city
and on comparing them with the
prices advertised by the same manu-
facturers in the foreign markets in
every instance found the figures in the
latter much lower than the former.
The sugar trust sells the refined SUI
gar in London cents to cents a
pound cheaper than they sell the
same article to the American people.
The Republicans say that this is not
true but L challenge the whole crowd
of them to meet me and discuss the
openly do SO, but like true Republic
cans sneak into the columns of the
Tribune and under an assumed name
put forth their fallacies.
Four hundred and fifty trusts are
plundering the American people. The
Republicans tell us that there are
trusts in England as well as here.
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sells its sugar at 2 cents a pound less
than the American sugar trust sells
to Americans.
What has brought on these hard
times is that during the past three
years of the highest tariff ever known
$50, 900 in gold has gone out of the
country. The Mckinley bill was pass
ed for the purpose of keeping the mon
ey in the country, but it didn't do it.
We must send abroad our sur
plus products, our corn, our
wheat, our pork, our beef. If we don't
send it abroad it will go to waste.
The Republicans tell US we will raise
up enough people in the manufacture
ing business to eat up all our surplus.
To do that would take ZOO years. So
if the Republican party can go on tax
ing the people for that period, provided
the farmers don't increase their pro-
auctions of these articles we can then
consume all our own products and
won't have to export any.
Our basis of wealth is farming, three
fifths of the population depend on
agriculture for their living 1t is the
farmer who pays for all and the gov
eminent by its system of tariff taxa
ton confiscateS 80 1-3 per cent. of all
the farmers production and has done
so far many years. The object of the
tariff is to protect the millionaire
against the laboring poor. The cheap
er the foreigner works as long as he
stays at home the better for us. If
the Chinannan will work twenty days
for the pay which an American gets
for one day and gives US the result
of the twenty days labor for that one
days pay so much the better for us.
The three columns of editorial in the
Tribune on the tariff question is moth
ing but an attempt to befuddle the
people so that they cannot understand
the question. Only 5 per cent. of our
working population are engaged in
the protected industries and to tell us
that these few keep up the wages of
the rest is to tell us that the tail
wags the dog.
COLONEL C. E. MONTGOMERY
said he had been spreading the gospel
to the just and the unjust in the lower
parts of the town but hadn't found
many heather, the people were all Hall
men. however see one heather here
down there by the door that is nv
friend Charley Crane, to him I want
10 say a few words. The fact that
there is over a million people in this
country who don't know where their
morroW's breakfast is to come from
is not the fault of the productive
power of the country but is the fault
or mat larceny under the name of the
tar1H This system has made three
and half million tramps in this
country and yet my brother Varian
says IN order to cure this we must go
on taking the same medicine we
have had for the last TWENTY-FIVE wears
In other words, we must continue the
IarlH on the principle that like cures
IKE. Fancy my brother Varian telling
US mat IN order to make all these
tramps good citizens we must continue
the tariff. Away with such nonsense
Out OF the corruption which followed
our great war and which follows every
war, was born the Republican party
ed by that arch traitor to the Ameri-
can people, John Sherman. After the
war they commenced legislating for
gain and the Republican party has
kept 1t up ever since. After the war
we mad only two men who could be
called millionaires, John Jacob Aston
ana stephen Girard, and they were
scarcely worth a million dollars each.
NOW a man who is not worth a mil
non is scarcely a respectable son-of-a
gun. We have only millionaires and
tramps now. Nearly the whole wealth
OF. this country with its SIS, 0O0. 900 OF
people is concentrated in the hands of
5z,U0O people; that is what the RepubIi-
can party has done; they say the gov
eminent is made for the few and damn
the people
What caused the crisis through which
we have passed? The tariff, in my
opinion, is the seed from which it
grew. The country was never so pros
porous as during the few years after
the war, because then the people had
enough money to do the business of the
country on a cash basis After that
the money of the people was curtailed
for the purpose of decreasing the Dur.
chasing power of the dollar; this was
done by that mushroom of a Republi-
can party which came ir1to power
twenty-five years ago and is still hold
ing on, but whose days. thank God
are numbered. The enormous foreign
debt we owe, of which the surplus
production of the country, after deduct
ing enough for the plain necessities of
life, is not enough to pay the interest
is bantling of the Republican party.
This is the most important election
which has ever been held in Utah. be-
cause it is the first election on strictly
party lines and it behooves us to be in
unison with the powers at Washington
If we are to be admitted as
a state. 1t is our duty to stand
by your standard bearer. Joseph
L. Rawlins. [Great applause.l If you
want that bill passed enabling the
city to increase its bonded indebtedness
so that we can go on with our public
improvements and give work to the
idle men around it is your duty to
support Joe Rawlins. My friend Var
ian has never said whether he is a
silver man or not. Hall said in the
theatre that he was in favor of the
free coinage of silver at ratio of 16
to l. Everybody can understand that.
but Earian says the Republican party
was fooled in 1873 He cannot be a sill
yer man or he would have declared
himself. They tell us we ought to