The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-28

last twenty-five vears-became con-
WINGED that whatever might become Of
other industries and other consumers
of trust-produced necessities, the news
paper. business proposed to drop poll
tfes long enough to protect its own in
terests. SO the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted
Resolved. by the Pennsylvania State
Editorial association. That no trust
should be fostered by legislation, sucn as
tariff duties; in other words mat II trusts
are honestly organized 10 reduce expenses,
and Consequently the cost of products,
they should depend upon their own bus3-
ness sagacity. not upon protection gwen
to them by the government
Resolved. That holding this belief as
to all trusts. and believing that the recent
increase in the cost p white paper anc OF
type metal is due, in part at least, 10 the
organiZa ton Of trusts, and that IL IS made
possible by tariff duties, we appeal to CON
gress TO repeal such tariff duties as serve
TO protect the trusts in their eXtortlOnate
charges
When the fact that two-thirds, prob
ably three-fourths, of the editors and
publishers in that convention were
supporters of the Mckinley and Ding
ley tariff Sures-Republicans of the
Pennsylvania protectionist type-their
denunciation of the trust-fostering pro
clivities of a protective tariff, their ad-
mission that manufacturing cOmbina-
lions. instead of depending on their
own business sagacity, rely upon gov
eminent favoritism, and this demand
for a repeal OF tariff duties. indicate a
conversion which. though sudden and
based on selfish interest. is no less re-
markable than significant.
This hostility to trusts has been the
Democratic position ever since McKin-
ley first appeared in congress as the
regular attorney for corporate inter-
ests. When Democratic orators and
editors undertook to show that pro-
tected manufacturers were selling their
goods abroad for less than they exacted
of American customers, these same Re
publican journalists denounced the ad-
vertisements in foreign papers as for
geries But now they boast that this
is being done and brazenly admit that
it has been going on for many years.
When Democrats undertook to demon
strate that trusts were being nurtured
on protection pap, Republicans booted
at the idea and said that trusts we're
all right anyhow When Democrats de-
manded a reduction of the tariff on
these articles which were and are con-
trolled by unlawful combinations, the
cry Of free trade" went up from the
threats of every trust champion, great
and small. from ocean to ocean When
general reciprocity with countries
whence come the necessities OF life was
proposed, with the burden of impost
duties to be placed on luxuries, Re-
publican howlers and heelers shook the
flag of Britain in the faces Of the Amer
lean people. and sought to arouse a
prejudice against a nation to which
the party of gold and trusts turns to-
day for it's financial and colonial poll
cies-
That the paper trust is an evil can
not be successfully refuted. But what
is it doing that other trusts are not
doing? Even those newspapers that
never protest against laws and policies
which permit the fleeing Of the people,
until the same robber influence reaches
for their own tills, are having exper-
fence with other trusts as well a. the
paper trust. There is a threatened adj
vance in printing materials of all kinds.
During the past six months the cost Of
paper. ink. oil and metals has increased
from 20 to so per cent. Six months ago
the Chicago and other eastern dailie5
doubled their subscription rates. Den
yer papers may be compelled to do the
same.
The paper trust is entrenched behind
the wall of protection and fortified in
the tariff policies of the party in power.
1t is no worse than other trusts, yet it
is responsible for the advance in the
price of books, magazines and newspa-
pers, which is sure to become univer-
sal. Prices have been enormously ad-
vanced in all the materials which enter
into their composition.
As our esteemed Republican cOntem-
poraries admit, the tax on pulp and
paper is a tax On intelligence and,
therefore, an insult TO the American
people May not the man who uses
window glass, tinwaTe, linens, carpets
and the cheaper grades Of dry goods
the prices of which are controlled by
trusts, the manufacture Of which is
protected by tariffs-say: a tax on
these things is a tax on life and light
and comfort and, therefore, an injury
as well as an insult to the masses Of
the American people,?
VIII some anti-paper trust protection
organ please explain the difference?
VIII. some Republican journal tell us
why it always favored the robbery Of
others by the system which now rObs
it? Is it necessary for the trust evil
to burglarize a newspaper office in or
der to convince the publisher of its
real mission in the land? Are trusts
beneficial only so long as they cOnfine
their operations to people not engaged
in running Republican newspapers?
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