The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-29
THE REVIVAL OF INDUSTRIES.

The Herald expects to present to the
public from time TO time the particu-
lars of the improvement which nearly
everybody admits is taking place in
the business and industries Of this
country. That may very much nettle
our Republican contemporaries but we
confess that this gives us no disconl-
fort. And we intend to keep the
1 truth before the people, that these i'm
provements are. a complete refutation
of the predictions of those Republican
papers that are so irritated at the
mention of the facts.
Our morning contemporary hates to
acknowledge what every respectable
journal in the country admits. And it
lodges the argument in relation to
the revival of trade and the increase
of wages, first in one way and then
in another One day it says the list of
all the mills and factories and foun-
dries, that have started up in full
time and full blast, and have increased
the wages of their employees, was
compiled by some goldbug," as
though that altered the facts n the
case. The next day it says the revival
is not much after all, and that the le-
formed tariff law is protection meas
ure and therefore the revival is due
to that cause. It's antics are amusing
if not edifying.
Now it informs the public that The
Herald every morning makes a dis
! play of itself by trying to show that
this is due to the Democratic tariff.
/ If our neighbor wants to be treated
with any degree of respect in contro-
versy, it will have to stop that kind
| of wilful Misrepresentation, and begin
! to state the position taken by The
Herald truthfully, which will indeed
! be a new departure.
If the Tribune cares at all to get
itself right on this matter and will
carefully read what The Herald has
said on it, our neighbor will find that
once more it has falsified the utteran-
ces OF The Herald in order to make
some sort of a reply. 1t is time that
it dropped that sort IF a contro-
versy."
The argument of The Herald is and
has been simply this: While the Nc
Kinley high tariff law was in full OPP
Grafton, disaster came upon the indus
tries of the country. Since the Wilson
tariff law has gone :nto operation
there has been a revival # industry.
Republican papers, the Tribune in
Guided, predicted that when the tariff
was reformed and reduced, the effects
would be industrial ruin wages would
be reduced one-half if not more;
cheap goods from England would
flood the country" people would be
able to buy for a dollar what formerly
cost them two, but they wouldn't have
the dollar to buy with; cur factories
would be idle while those of Great
Britain would flourish; and a great
deal moro to the same effect.
Lists of the re-opened, enlarged and
full-time working industrial estab-
lishments have been published with
the particulars of the increase of
wages affecting many scores of thou
sands Of workmen. These the Tribune
calls trash" But our contention is
lQdL Ill1S SO-CdllCQ II ocAA ~ OhNo III
demonstrations Of the Republican
calamity shriekers false; that is all.
We have not said that the Mckinley
law caused the crash, although 1t came
under the full force of that infany.
We have not said the prosperity, the
employment of work people at higher
wages, the exports Of American man
ufactures instead of the influx Of the
cheap goods food" are due to the
Democratic tariff" Such remarks can
not be found in The Herald. People
can read the facts and form their own
conclusions But we have said, and
do say, that those facts prove the
Republican predicters of ruin to be
false prophets, and there is no get
ting away from the logic of our argu-
ment.
THAT the industries of the country
are not utterly smashed" using the
words of our contemporary, is dis
honest remark, in view of the now
admitted facts of the gratifying re-
vival in all kinds of manufactures.
And the attempt to evade the real
point in this argument by quoting as
the language of The Herald something
which cannot be found in it's columns,
is equally dishonest and it is that
which brings our neighbor into con-
tempt and provokes harsh rejoinders
which seem to affect its digestion and
its manners.
The country is on the up grade.
Times are improving Industries are
active. The false foreboding of politi-
cal deceivers are dispelled by the re-
turning sunshine of prosperity. The |
results Of tariff reform are good and |
not evil. If we can but get the silver
question settled in a satisfactory man.
ner, we will have no need to touch |
the tariff again except in a small way,
for many years to come and then to
still further reduce the rates of duties. |
1t would be better to recognize the
facts and rejoice over them, than try |
to discredit them and encourage the /
"blues" for a paltry partisan purpose.
An exchange says: Under the Nc
Kinley bill Carnegie reduced wages.
under the Wilson bill he raises them. /
This is the sort of tariff argument the |
can understand and ap- |
preciate.'' 1t is commended to our