The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-08
THE HOME INDUSTRIES DISPUTE

THE HOME INDUSTRIES DISPUTE
There is nothing of greater import
ance or that is more necessary to the
welfare of Utah than the establishment
and promotion of home industries.
They are needed for the utilization Of
| the raw materials which are so abund-
ant in this region. They are needed to
supply our home requirements. They
are needed for expectation, that mon
ey may be brought into the territory
or articles we need that we do not and
at present cannot manufacture. They
are needed to employ the hands that
are idle and thus make profitable, en-
ergy that may otherwise be turned in
to mischief
There is nobody more sensible of the
needs and advantages of home indus
tries than the people who belong to
the Democratic party. There are no
people who are more wiling to invest
their means in establishing them, or to
buy them when placed on the market
/ than Democrats are.
Continuous and vigorous efforts are
being made by Republicans to persuade
men and women who do not know any
better that a Republican is one who
believes in home industries, and a
Democrat is one who opposes home in
| dustries. 1t matters not who such per-
sons are, what professions they make,
or what positions they may occupy in
the community, they are. by making
such statements, uttering the basest
of falsehoods for partisan ends.
Those men and women who echo the
untruth are to be pitied. They cackle
out what they have heard others say,
and are mere parrots that know not
of what they speak. The or;ginators
Of the falsehoods are to he blamed.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
They know better. If they do not,
their ignorance is culpable, for they
might know better if they would.
But there must be some difference in
the views of Republicans and Demo-
Gratis on this question or there would
be no conflict. Certainly. The differ
ence is this:
Democrats believe that home indus
tries should be established and main
tanned on legitimate business princi-
pies, each on the same footing in that
respect as the other industries carry
ing out the Democratic Jeffersonian
axiom: Equal and exact justice to
all, special privileges to none"
Republicans believe that some home
industries may be established and sun
ported out of the public funds. leaving
others to fight their own way unaided.
That is not on legitimate business prfn.
clples. 1t takes money which all the
taxpayers are compelled to contribute
for public expenses, and gives it to
some favored corporation or individual
for private purposes.
Democrats Will use their own means
to support home industries. Republi-
cans would force other people to sup
port some particular or favored in
dustry, whether they wished TO do so
or not. Democrats declare that public
money may be used for public purposes
only Republicans favor taking public
money and giving it away for private
purposes. There is the difference.
The Democratic party on this stands
by fundamental principle of truth
which no amount of Republican sOphfs-
try can overcome. The power of tax
alton. the greatest of governmental
powers, can only be rightly used in aid
Of public object. That has been de-
cided by the Supreme Court of the
United States, which in the case of
Loan Association VS.. Topeka added to
the language:
1t cannot therefore be exercised in
aid OF enterprises strictly private. for
the benefit of individuals. though in a
remote or collateral way the local pub
lic may be benefited thereby"
1t is no excuse for thfeving that the
money or property stolen was put to
a good use. When money wrung from
the people by taxation is given away
for private concerns that is robbery,
and it remains such no matter to what
good uses it is put or how many per-
sons share in the results.
Democrats are in favor of legitimate
just, honest and consistent support of
home industries, but not in favor of
public robbery under whatever gufse
it may be perpetrated. There is the
difference between them. aud Republic
cans on the home industry question
That is THE plain unvarnished truth.
and so let it be proclaimed.
WHY WILL, NOT tho Pow, L1io,,.