The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-30

the magical principle Of protection,
as once interpreted by our republican
friends, would have saddled the tax
on the foreigner who, az the republi-
can leaders used to assert, pays our
tariff taxes. The fictitious prosperity
of our manufacturing industries dur
ing the war was because of those high
protection measures. Prior to 1860,
there were but three millionaires in
the United States. At the close of
the war there were at least tour thous-
and, and they have increased at the
rate of one thousand millionaires per
annum ever since the war. Some OF
with having betwesn one hundred and
two hundred millions of dollars each.
Carnegie, FTicke & Co, made more
than fifty millions of dollars in twenty
years in the highly protected steel in
dustIy. And q careful estimate by
non-partisan political economists, fur
nishes the. startling fact that twenty
five thousand persons own Just about
one-half of ali the property in the
United States. Now from whom has
tnat vast sum been gathered? Ger
tainly, those twenty-five Thousand per-
sons did not create the wealth which
they now possess. In answering the
question: lit should be remem bered that
that vast aggregation Of wealth has
taken place during thirty years of high
protection or McKinleyism. and which
our neighbor evidently loves with an
intensity equal to the alteration of the
old Israelites for Aaron's golden calf,
We lave shown that the peo-
pie pay the tariff tax, and
which none of our republican
friends at present deny. Then 1t
stands to reason, that when the peo-
pie pay tariff tax for protecting the
steel that Carnegie and others are
interested in, that manufacturers are
getting the benefit OF the taxation that
Is being wrung from the masses. 1t
stands to reason that if money is
taken from the people by the strong
hand Of the law and turned oyer to
the manufacturers they are being
made rich at the expense of the people
who pay the taxes; and just in proper
ton to the heigth 30 which the tariff is
raised, just to that extent are the man
ufauturers enabled to raise the prices
of their products and rob the people.
Ii the laborers in those protected in
dustries were benefited by the rise
in price OF those protected pro-
ducts, there would then be Just the
half of reason for high protection.
But the employees are met at the doors
OF those protected industries by hordes
OF iaborers admitted free of duty from
Europe, and who are clamorIng for
work at any figures. The American la
borer is compelled TO meet the compe-
tition of Europe while his employer
reaps ali the benefit Of the protectlC u.
Ii this last factor We're not present, and
the workers in the protected industries
actually had their wages increased,
would Ii be right TO tax the wheat
raieers OF the western prairies, and the
cotton planters OF the south, and the
employees In the sugar Industries, etc.,
and pay it over to the employees In the
protected industries? That kind OF
political economy is called by the DEM
ocrats ''class legislation" or taking
from the many and giving to the few,
or, in plain English, the results of the
robber tariff.
The manufacturer having tasted of
the intoxicating results OF protection
during the War, were determined to
cling to the principle Of protection to
the end, lobbyists were hired to wine,
dine. and bribe congressman to contin-
uation of the policy OF tariff robbery. In
vain did Lincoln cry out against the
great aggregation of wealth into the
hands of the few. In vain did he
prophesy the coming OF what we now
see-that the people would become
the slaves of the money power" In
vain did Grant, Garfield, Arthur and
other patriotic republican presidents
crJ out against the robbery OF the peo-
pie to enrich the manufacturers. The
money power had gotten the masses
by the throat and they determined to |
hold their grip at the sacrifice of anv-
thing and everything but themselves.
That condition continued to exist
until the panic came when Chauncev
NJ, Depew, an eminent republican.
summed up the results of
thirty years OF high protection in the
following terse language:
Fifty men IN these United States
IAN stop the wheels of industry; they
IAN strike dumb every electric KEY ,tbev
IAN preclpitate a panic at will.
Such was the confession of an emf
lent tinancier regarding the debased
md hopeless condition of American
oilers.
If the wealth OF those twenty-five
thousand miIlionaires were distributed
mong the toilers-among the farmers /
nd laboring classes, fifty men could
ct preclpitate panic at will, And i,
e hereby charge the present UNEQUAL !
of wealth and the helm
'ss condition of the masses to the
olicy of the republican party, and de-
our neighbor to point out any other L
suse for present conditions than the f,
ne we have indicated; and We further a
ely the combined brains of the re- F