The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-06
THE FRAUD or pRoTEeT.es:
[Cemn, 3nieated.i

A seeeeh by Hon. William Bulge
delivered in Idaho, has been printed for
campaign purposes by the Republican
state central committee. Al the So
llicitation of some Idaho patrons of The
Herald, we shall examine and answer
the speech. After a little talk to the
Mormons. Mr.. Bulge gets down to his
subject like this;
WHAT Is MEANT BY THE TARIFF?
This is a question often asked, and
viii endeavor to answer it. Tariff means
| tax on imports. a tax levied on goods
admitted into ports from foreign coun-
| tries. The Republican party believes that
articles from foreign countries should be
| taxed in order to pay the expenses OF
| the government and to afford preteet9n
/ to our home Industries The Democratic
party also believes a tariff is necessary,
but that il should only be sufficient to
meet the financial obligations of the gov
ernment. 80 the distinguishing feature
between beth parties on this issue is that
i the Republican party believes that IN ad-
dition to taxing foreign imports Tor gov
eminent support, the tarlH should be
ufactured articles as are produced by the
poorly paid working people IN other
! countries. But why should our lnouss
out the manufactured articles Of foreign
competitors who are enabled to supply
the market with cheap goods because
j
where wages are low. Therefore, in or
! der to keep wages up in this country ana
keep out these cheap manufactured goods
of the foreigner the Republican party
advocates akhigh tariff,
Mr.. Bulge has been strangely imposed
upon. The Republican party gives pro-
! lection to $50 tariff trusts in return for
the contributions the latter make to
the Republican campaign fund. The
tariff protection enables each of these
trusts to sell more eheaply abroad than
it sells at home. Part of the extra
price thus stolen from the American
people goes into the Republican cam
Ipaign fund. This talk about our trusts
needing protection is not rational. Our
trusts need no protection. They are
now selling abroad, every one OF them,
at the worlds prices. When Mr.. Bulge
tries to show that the rubber-shoe trust,
which advanced It's prices in this year
of depression. when prices generally
fell needs to be protected by a 40 per
icent. tariff against foreign paupers, he
I is talking wide of the mark. The ques-
ton is simply this:
Shall $50 millionaire trusts be per
mitted by tariff taxes to charge the
American people higher prices than they
charge Europeans and South Americans
for the same goods?
The Democratic party says no; the
Republican party says yes. But Mr.
Bulge thinks this question has in some
way got something to do with pauper
labor" The question of ''pauper labor
and of home industry" have no more
to do with the present phase of the tar
if question than they have with the
Boring sea dispute, or with the more
celebrated question, who struck Pat
sey Marley?" The only question now
to be debated is this: rs robbery justi-
fable because it is perpetrated by tariff
fostered trusts?
4 We hope that Mr.. Bulge will study
with care the following from one of
President Harrison's cabinet:
Il had an opportunity to take some
stock in the combinatio american
Harvester company, and l know what
inducements were offered. An investi-
cation will show that this same COM
bination is now selling, or offering to
sell, machinery in Russia and AUS
tralia and other Wheat-growing coun-
tries al a lower figure than they do in
this country. This won't do. l need
not offer any argument to prove the
weight or truth of the assertion. The
first thing the farmer will do when he
is acquainted with these facts will be
to make a howl against trusts and
protection that does not protect
Whether justly or not, he will charge
lit to the Republican party. l am as
certain as l can be of anything that
this mower and reaper trust will cost
the Republican party hundreds of
thousands of votes at the next presi
Dental election unless it takes a firm
stand against it and trusts in general.
"JEREIIAH NJ. RUSK.
Secretary of Agriculture"
Other authority will be given if it is
asked for The statement that the
trusts Offer 30 per cent. greater dis
count to the foreign than to the home
trade is not ours at all 1t is the pro-
tected manufacturers own statement
in their regular advertisements for
trade. For example, here is the ad-
vertisement of one of the makers of
corrugated copper gaskets, which has
been printed monthly for three years
Ipast in the export edition of the En-
cheering and Mining Journal 1t says:
"Gaskets. corrugated copper Price 2
cents per square inch, less 80 per cent.
discount for home trade.
Less 60 per cent. discount to the
Iexport trade"
These are the manufacturers own
words. not ours. We do not charge
that gaskets are sold cheaper abroad,
but the advertisement does and proves
it Here are some more of their own
advertisements:
The foreign edition of the Mail and
Export Journal contains the advertise
ment of 166 American manufacturing
: firms proposing to deliver their goods
on board ship at New York at the
prices mentioned by them in the paper.
In the American edition they give the
price at which they offer to sell to
Americans. The prices of some of
these protected goods to the foreigners
and to the Americans respectively are
as follows:
Prices to Prices to
Forms. America.
Advance plough. .....$ 8 90 $1S 90
Advance plough. 4 90 90
Hay tedder............. 30 90 a. o.
Horse rake. ......-..... II 90 30 90
Cumming feed cutter,
No. Observation-Disclosures. 90 90 80 90
Ann .Arbor cutter No. 2 IS 90 40 %
Silver cutter. ....L..... 20 90
Cuitivator ............. % 90 80 %
Sweep ...........,..... 50 90 80 GO
And so it goes through lists of thou
sands of articles which are sold in the