The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-11
PUBLIC OPINION.
The Peoples Department of
The Dispatch. Think For
1t. Write For 1t.
Edited by Sam. A. hing.
To the Editor PUBLIC OPINION.

No tTuer words were ever spoken
than that 1.-THE laws of a country are
responsible for tie condition of Its peo.
ple." This being true, we know that
the laws OF our country are, and for a
long time have been at fault. Let us
investigate, and determine, If we can,
who ara responsible for the present
hard times-when they had their in
ception and when they are likely to
cease.
We know that for long period prior
to 1860, the democratic party had al
most unbroken control of government
affairs. The people owned the soil from
the British possessions to the gulf and
from ocean to ocean. Strikes were I'M
known, combines and trusts were un-
thought Of. Taxes were light and used
only for government expenses, the
wealth of the country was then more
evenly divided among the people. There
were few millionaires, and while many
were comparatively poor, such thing
as a tramp or professional pauper was
unheard of. And remember, during all
this period there was little or no tariff,
compared to the high tariff law passed
during the SOS, and practically MAIN
tanned by the republican party ever
since. Note the changed conditions
since 1860. The republican party under
the pretended banner Ct progress, have
squandered, granted, and given away
large quantities of the public domain.
There are $4,000 600 acres of our land
now owned and controlled by thirty
foreign individuals or companies, sui
ticient to make ten states the size OF
Massachusetts. During the high tariff
period, seventy individuals haYe ex-
acted in the ag regate sum of money
from the American people in excess Cf
the value of the manufactured goods
sold, leaving net saving to themselves
of more than the amount of the entire
national debt, viz: 81, 2S3 100000. Also,
statistics show that during this period
fifty pei cent. Of the farms have been
at rates of interest which
CAM; lie paid.
The tsct is the Uuited States are
peculiarly adapted to agriculture, stock
raising aud mining. 1t is possible for
thu tgo states of the Dakotas to raise
sufficient wheat 10 bread this entire
nation, and while it is possible for
manufactures to prosper even in this
county, still the prosperity of our
people depends upon the extent OF
ma. . ct Tor these natural productions.
The republicans claim that high
tariff gives employment to vast num-
oers Of employees engaged in manufac-
,ure, aud that thus the market for
farm production is extended. While |
his theory sounds plausible, the fact |
g, it creates q little home market for
,he few farms lying near to these
manufacturing districts, and increases
he burden of every other section in
he entire union, This has been the
condition for SO long that it proves
hat the theory OF EXTENDED home
market, for ia m produce" in this
way, is failure. 1t has the effect of
dosing The markets of other countries
.gainst our natural productions. 1t
ompels our people to pay nearly
Iouble the actual value of every manu-
actured article purchased under the
arif policy, for the purpose of build
ng up the welfare of small area of
erritory bordering the Atlantic sea-
oard. to the detIiment of the entire
rest and south.
Republicans will deny this, but let
ne call your attention to the current
rice lists (wholesalel of any manufac-
aring establishment in the east, and
nyariably they quote goods for the
ONE market, at from 10 to 30 per
srt. more than manufactured articles
re worth, and that the west and south
eceiye not one cent OF benefit in return,
Mess it be that the knowledge that
hey are manufacturing hundreds of
lillions yearly in this country as we'll
s thousands of tramps at the'same
mo 10 a hpnafit raRsf s.1sn