The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-01
WHAT ABOUT THE TARIFF

WHAT ABOUT TdE IARlfET
The Republican organ is annoyed be-
cause The Herald grows more ano
more emphatic on the silver question:
and asks why not discuss the tariff?
With whom shall we discuss the tar
! if issue? Our Republican contemporary
has admitted all that orthodox protec-
tionists have been in the habit OF
claiming. The only Republican repre-
sentative of Utah in the national con-
gress has declared the Republican sys-
tenn of tariff protection to be "a form
of robbery
The Chicago platform is broad and
comprehensive enough to satisfy al
most any one but John Henry Smith
and Alma Eldredge, both of whom are
discussing the tariff in apparent ig-
norance of the provisions of the Chi
cago platform
The Salt Lake Tribune has told us
that the tariff differences between the
| two parties are inconsequentiaI; that
the Democratic tariff was plenty high
enough for the needs of the country
| and the demand of any reasonable Re
publican
| 1t hasn't been very many days since
our neighbor- said that, either. And 1t
asserted. furthermore that the coun-
try has passed beyond remedy through
| a protective tariff"
1t can't be more than a month or two
since our neighbor declared that there
is no such thing as free trade" and
that ''by the debasement of silver,
cattle wool and lead have fallen 80
Der cent in the last fifteen years, and
that no tariff can possibly be laid that
can bring anything like compensation
for this awful loss
What is the need of Democrats dis
GUESSING the wool, lead, or live stock
schedules with Il Republican organ
which makes such admissions?
Only one short month ago the Trib-
| une criticised the Dinghy bill, which
the Republican state convention has
since endorsed, saying that the pres
ent tariff is not a truly protective tar
| if ALL the underlying principles OF
a real protective tariff had to be VIO-
| LATED in the struggle to obtain a Ger
tain amount of revenue from an i'm
poverished people,
| 1t said further: Mr.. Dingley and
the whole band are telling of the in
creased prosperity. The whole band
knows that THEY ARE LYING, and
that they are trying to DECEIVE THE
PEOPLE,"
| 1t must have been a Typographical
error which caused the Republican or
gan to say yesterday that the Dingley
| tariff had brought prosperity to Utah
industries. But here is something fur
Their from the Tribune on tariffs and
prosperity:
I'VE have had high tariff; we have
had tariff for revenue with great
many protection ad litions, and the re-
suit all through for eighteen years has
! been steady decline in prices unit
debtors are all well-nigh bankrupt and
the men of small capital that hope by
their capital and by their labor to re-
ceive fair returns, are all well-nigh
ruined. More than that, great many
! thousands of the laborers who are now
employed are working on half time,
ard beyond that are hundreds of thous-
ands who are not working at ALL In
the meantime, the clergymen who are
struggling to save souls are utterly dis
couraged. Crimes are increasing in
frightful ratio. The warehouses; and
poorhouses are filed with inmates. The
morals of the nation are degenerating
and all the baleful effects are being ex-
perienced which come when a great
calamity happens to reduce the volume
of money in a country and to reduce
prices accordingly"
Before the Republican state platform
ratified all the policies of President Nc
Kinley our neighbor rejected the Gage
and Alger branches of the administra-
ton. 1t has since swallowed them
whole. Before the Republican state
convention recognized the tariff as ''the
cornerstone of the Republican party
our neighbor was in doubt about it
working any good. Before the state
platform approved the Dingley bill, our
morning contemporary would have
none of it. Before the crack of Ar
thurs lash echoed through the conven-
ton nall Shafroths silver views were
certainly unanswerable."
1t is different now. By the way,
what was that remark amout "a party
hack?''