Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-29

prices for the goods which he received in
exchange.
In so far as the pending bill contains
any Intentional proiecIion-and some OF
tho protection which II does contain, /
am grieved TO learn, Is uninlentional on
the part of some OF the gentlemen who
propose amendments to tho schedulo--it
Is necessarily in behalf OF labor Tho
only ground OF morality upon which the
protective ductriuo can stand is that our
people in the United Slates-those who
Toll, not those who 1.-Two Off the toiler-
are of more value 10 the sum of human
progress than any other people in the
world.
Protection is for the labor Of tho coun-
Try, to guard II against he industrial
fight inaugura'ed In the pauper lands of
the world. How can any man say that
the hand which has toiled in mills, In
factories, and at the forge. must be
guarded from competition with pauper
labor abroad, but that the farmer of the
United States must 90 INTO the world
and COM e,o with the most degai ded
labor there is on the face of the earth. II
any man can contend IL here, hope he
Will be able and will have the frankness
to contend it before his agricultural con-
stiluenls. Pu. 1t in tina. exact form OF
truth, for that IL what 1t ~. Tho farmer
sells in open competition with all the
pauper labor engaged in agriculture in
all The world, and the agricultural labor
In other lands than This receives less
compensation Than u toilor OF the samo
land in any other industry.
Does any gentleman imagine to him
sell that Mr.. Csnnon's atsumept is an
easy one to answer anu refu,,? We
confess we do not tinu 1t so. Unlete
We plant ourselves squsrely on the
free trade platform and agree that
American industries and American
labor shall be- degraded to the level OF
the European, we are bound b admit
that The existing arrangement is un-
lair to the agricultural producer. The
man ufscturer being protected against
foreign O. mpetition and the farmer
left unprotected, 1t follows that the
latter has to pay the highest prices Tor
everything he buys and accept the
lowest prices for everything he sells.
He pays for the protection OF the mar
uiacintsr in the clothes he wears. tho
utensils he employs, the very
plow he euitivales his crop with.
But his product has no prctec-
ton. 1t is sold in a free
trade market. He helps everybody.
Nobody helps him. He cannot be pre-.
tected through the medium OF the
tariff, fer he has no competition from
abrOad. He can be aided only In the
wsy Senator Cannon propose,-by en-.
courasiug him to export his proauct.
Aud this 10 the text Of the ans ment
in which the scheme lie formulate
And from and after sixty days from
the passage Of this act there shall be paid,
out of any moneys in the treasury of the
United States nos Otherwise appropriated,
10 any exporter OF wheat or wheat -four,
rye, or rye flour; corn, ground or un-
ground; cotton, hops, or tobacco, pro-
duced wholly In the United States and
exported by sea from any port in the
United states to any port OF any other
country, the following export bounty,
by way Of an equalization 10 agriculture
OF the benefits of this act 10 encourage he
industries of the United States, to wit:
Ten cents per bushel on wheat; 50 cents
per barrel on wheat flour; 10 cents per
bushel on rye; so cents per barrel on rye
-four; cents per bushel on corn; 10 cents
per Genital ON corn, ground; l cent per
pound on cotton; cents per pound on
hops; 2 cents per pound on tobacco. And
all payments of bounty under this act
shall be made upon negotiable
vouchers, issued by the collector OF
customs at the port of clearance,
upon presentation at the treasury or any
sublreasury Of the United States; and
the secretary Of The treasury is hereby
charged with making and enforcing
such regulations as may be necessary Tor
the full protection OF the exporters aud
OF the government according TO the true
intent and meaning OF this law.
Tue question is a practical. not a
sentimental one. The question le
whether 1t profits us as u nation TO
prom one industry and starve al
other. Will II serve the ends Of gen.
ersl prosperity to enrich tie manufac-
iureis aud the great commercial or
pOrations while We permit the ayr
culiurist to perish In neglec ? Can
we, indeed, know what prosperity
means II the farming indu try is ex.
tinguisheu?
Here is Mr.. Cannpn's proposition
in a nutshell. He claims that cur
economic scheme is detective from
top TO bottom 40 long as 1t fails u make
provision for the secure anu petma-
neat welfare Of agriculture. He claims,
further, that no amount OF fostering
care In other directions will avail II
agriculture be lett to perish. What do
our statesmen think OF this? Can any
OF ihem-smong protecuonisls, we
mean-poiut out the flaw In Mr..
Cannon's theorem?