The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-03

times year after year that followed,
the calling out of troops in five states
in $780, the Homestead troubles, strikes.
| lockouts and starvation were the &C
compartments of your tariffs growing
constantly higher and higher. The
panic of 1898 with its fearful disasters
and industrial armies were all under
Republican legislation.
R. You are unfair here. They oc-
Cured during Mr.. Cleveland's term and
resulted from the threat of free trade.
| D. Oh, consistency After thirty years
Of protection the Republican structure
of prosperity, which they tell us was
founded on the rock. falls at the first
breath of free trade, and the working
men are thrown penniless without
dollar put away in their stockings,
| into starvation and despair.
r. Well, if you Democrats did not
cause hard times, who did?
D. Judge Goodwin tells us 1T was the
result of the decentralization of silver
in 1S73-a Republican measure. What
ever the cause was it came before
single Democratic law was put upon
| the statute book This is true, also,
| that since the Democrats have enacted
modified tariff law, prosperity is
again on the rising tide. Bradstreet
tells us that more than a million men
have had their wages raised an aver
! age of 10 per cent. during the year.
! More men are employed. Not only
this but clothing and many other
and wire fence, are cheaper and money
goes farther. All the predictions of
last year that a country which was so
disastrous under mere threat of Dem
ocratio tariff legislation would certain
| ly go to the ''demnition bow-bows'' on
the realization of the evil have signally
failed.
r. But you can't convince a. terri
| tory which produces so much wool and
sugar that the tariff should be taken
off,
D. Wool has gone down for twenty
| eight years on a constantly increasing
tariff and this Notwithstanding the
fact that the population has grown
faster proportionately than the wool
clip has increased. Wool reached its
lowest figure under McKinley's robber
tariff and under the Wilson bill is go
ing up. But there are wool wearers
in this country as we'll as wool grow
ers and they should have some consid-
Grafton. The trouble with your whole
protection system is that it permits
classes of the people to use the gov
eminent to put money in their pockets
at the expense of the other people.
This is unjust Democrats say it is
unconstitutional. Judge Cooley, that
great Republican lawyer, says that
tariff for protection is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court of the United
States says that it is none the less
robbery, though disguised and called
taxation, to take one mans property
and bestow it upon another. on the
plea of building up the country. Con-
fscation Is the logical limit of your
theories. So far as the sugar factory
is concerned and all other home in
dustres, Democrats favor buying their
equal but believe that every man
should be free to deal where he pleases
and regard it as, robbery to tax a
farmer the value Of calf or bushel
of wheat or make laboring man give
up days pay in order to make a
dividend for an industry that cannot
stand on its own feet.
R. You do not believe with the early
pioneers that local industries should
be supported.
D. You misconceive their position
They advocated these things at
time when there was no railroad
within a thousand miles, when to man
ufacture was cheaper than to import,
as religious duty that those who
were wealthy should establish indus
tries, not losing concerns, that might
develop our resources and furnish
employment to more Mormons and re-
turn profit to. the capitalist.
r. But your party is issuing bonds
in time of peace. Certainly that shows
bad management
D. Are you aware that Harrison's
Secretary of the Treasury, Charles
! Foster, ordered bonds in February,
1892, and cancelled the order only upon
going out on March 4th? Mr. Foster
admits this in a letter dated November
Is, 1894 addressed to r. G.. Scott. Of
Des Moines; he admits also that gold
was running out of the country and
that in this emergency he talked with
bankers about maintaining the gold
reserve. This bond issue has all re-
suited from Republican legislation and
that party is solely responsible for the
| necessity.
To prove this let me cite you to the
facts that the Mckinley act, which is
entitled IAN act to reduce the revenue"
SO far accomplished that purpose as
| to cut down customs receipts fifty mil
lions a year for the four years il
was in force. The Republican party
added fifty millions more expenses to
the government in pensions. voted as
much more to the sugar barons, re-
turned fourteen millions to the states
to reimburse them for direct taxes paid
in the war, and squandered thirty-four
yet Que. Thus by decreasing revenues
and adding burdens, Mr.. Cleveland's
surplus of sS3,OOO,OO disappeared and
it Was only by adding in nineteen mil
lions of subsidiary coins never before
done and counting up the trust bonds
on deposit to the amount of about
fifty millions that Mr. Foster was o h1a