The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-29

the reply that we desire to mention.
Our friend says:
We can readily accept his apology
for we know about how hard it is for
free trade editor to defend the decline
IN the price of wool, after the advance
in price that wac predicted before the
w Wllson Dill was passed.
In the first place there are no demo-
Gratis that believe in Immediate free
trade. They believe in so reforming
the tariff that by degrees free trade
can be ultimately obtained, The follow
ing from the martyred Garfield, land who
was one of the most eminent and level
headed republicans thst,ever lived, ex-
presses clearly the views of large
majority of democrats. Said James A.
Garfield April lst, 1870:
We have seen that one extreme
school OF economists would place the
price of all manufactured articles In
the hands of foreign producers by rem
dering Ii impossible for our manufac-
turers to compete with them:while the
other extreme school, by making 1t
impossible tor the foreigner to sell his
competing wares in our market, would
give the people no Immediate check
upon the prices which our manufac-
turers might Ex for their products. L
disagree with both these extremes.
hold that properly adjusted COM
petition between home and foreign pro-
ducts is the best gauge by which TO
regulate international trade. Duties
should be 50 high tnat our manufac-
turers can fairly compete with the for
eign product, but not so high as to en-
able them TO drive cut the foreign ar
ticle, enjoy a monopoly of The trade and
regulate the prices as othey please
This Is my doctrine OF protection. II
congress purSlteS this line ofpoIicy stead
tly ne shall year bg gear approach more
nearly to the basis Of free trade because
Ge shall be more nearly able to compete
Nth other nations on equal terms. L AN
FOR A PROTECTION WHICH LEADS TO
| ULTIMATE FREE TRADE.
Relative to the discussion that We
have carried on with our neighbor re-
garding the wool industry, not one
proposition of ours has been dis
proved. We pointed out that sheep
men under protection were getting
rich at the expense of the stock-men
and others who pay the tariff tax. We
pointed out that a republican panic
forced wool down IRON cents to 10
cents per 10. below what free trade,
under normal conditions, would have
forced it. We pointed out that the
price of wool is advancing In an
exact ratio as the effects of that panic
wear off. We pointed out that Amer
lean wooden manufacturers are now
able TO compete with foreign manu-
facturers and that prices are going up.
We pointed with unimpeachable fig
ures that under present prices OF wool
and mutton, sheep-men are prosper
Gus, or can be by looking properly
after their herds. We quoted Heber
BennIon, large sheep owner, to rein
force our figures. Not one Of those
propositions has been even noticed
much less refuted by our neighbor.
So far as haying had ''hard row to
hoe," in defending democratic princi-
pies, we have discovered that our neigh
Dor has not leg to stand on. He
simply sits down and utters wall after
wall oyer>the ruination of the wool
industry $nd fans TO prove That his
been the case, and by his silence as to
our arguments tacitly acknowledges his
inability to do so.