The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-25


This man has exerted a powerful po-
lltlcal influence in this country the past
htteen years. The D;ngley tariff, in its
most important schedule, is John Dali
zeiIs handiwork. Under its operation
the American people are taxed hun
dreds of millions Of dollars annually on
iron and steel, and manufactures there
or of which but $9,7s1, 043 found the
way to the United States treasury in
the fiscal year 1906 All the rest was
pure graft. and went to swell the profits
CT the steel trust and kindred concerns
and pay dividends on their Watered
stocks. This country is the biggest pro-
Queer Of iron and steel in the world.
and makes the cheapest iron ard steel
IN the world Given a monopoly of the
domestic market, our ironmasters send
abroad immense cargoes of iron and
steel and manufactures thereof and sell
10 foreigners such wares in COMPETE
ton with all the world, and much
cheaper than the same goods are sold
at home, and herein the blessed tariff
IS benefaction TO the foreigner and
a hardship to the American consumer.
The constitution of the United States
confers on congress the power to LAY
and collect tariff duties; but more than
iron and steel schedule of the Dingley
law are collected by the manufactur-
ers of iron and steel They are paid by
the people all right, but the money
never reaches the treasury. One great
irOnmaster is reputed to have an in
come of 81. SOC, 900 month-this is taxes
laid" in the Dingley law, not for the
public treasury, but for the private
Golfers of Andrew Carnegie. who is one
m
world, and second only to the govern
ment of the United States in this hem
isphere. If his name were Bill Jones,
he would be just as rich with the priv
ileges he enjoys to tax some so. 900 900
of his fellow-citizens for his private
gain.
John Dalzell is one of the very able
me1 i'm congress. He is a lawyer of
first-rate capacity, student with vast
acquired knowledge, a debater strong
in statement and adroit in argument
In addition he is an honest man and
sincere in the practice of his devil
ment. Hailing from Pittsburg-that is
a product of the tariff privilege-he has
persuaded himself that the chief mis-
sion of the tariff is to protect and its
incidental office to raise revenue. Hence
he favOrs prOhibitOry duties on what
ever Pittsburg can turn out. For ex-
ample, the duty on wire rope and wire
strand is 1922 per cent, and practi-
cally prOhibitOry; on cutlery the duty
is $40 per cent: on files and rasps,
$3.50 per cent; on chains, 1896 per cent;
on tin plates, 52.S7 per cent. These are
sample CRAFTS Mr.. Dalzell writ in the
tarlH to increase the Pittsburg tribe
Of milliOnaires. Governments are bad
OF worse IN exact proportion to the de-
gree of privilege it allows favored
classes. Privilege in governments is
the aatithesis of equality Tariff du-
ties laid to protect the steel trust are
privilege that concern enjoys and
that must be paid by the ordinary cit
izen, for the babe unborn and the dead
unburied, as well as all in active be-
ing, are affected by the prices of iron
and steel. If the tariff did not en-
nance the price of iron and steel and
all the manufactures thereof. every
ironmaster would turn free trader.
The only meaning of the word protec-
ton as it relates to the tariff is the
privilege to monopolize the market
and charge exorbitant prices.
Since the southern question made
way for the issues growing out of pol
itics of political economy we have had
five great national tariff battles in
this cOuntry-1SS2. 1856. 1888. 1890 and
1872 In each and all of them the
tariff was paramount. Three of them
-lSS2, 1890 and 1S92-resulted in signal
Democratic victories. One. 1886. was a
Republican victory by the sIenderest
of margins. The tariff was more or less
considered in 1876 and 1884, Democratic
years, as it was in 1880. when Garfield
tariff reformer, by the way. headed
the Republican ticket and was elected.
Here is the one prosperous issue for
the Democratic party-hOnest and con-
stitutional taxes; but the party has
master. and though that master has
run away from the issue he rendered.
he is certain to head the Democratic
ticket. and the controversy will be over
government ownership and operation of
railroads, whatever the platform may
say, or unsay, or not say-that is, if
Mr.. Bryan is the candidate. NY hum
BILE advice to the Democratic party is
TO fix for 1912. The Republicans can
not even revise the tariff, much less
reform IT, so TIE issue of real tariff re-
form will be as irresistible in 1912 as If
was in 1882 or 1890 or 1892.
Mr.. Dalzell was born in New York
City in 1S45. When a child he was
taken to Pittsburg by his parents. and
has resided there ever since. He was
given an excellent and a classical edu-
cation. His is a legal mind, and he
naturally chose the law for a pro-
fession. He had not long to wait for
clients, and while yet a young man he
got to be one of the general consul of
the Pennsylvania railroad. At the bar
he was noted for the readiness with
which he grappled with matters sud-
denly and unexpected sprung by his
adversaries. He seemed always pre-
pared, and appeared to know the other
sides case as well as his own
And thus Dalzell was a leading and
successful lawyer in 1886, when he was
returned to the Fiftieth Congress. It
was time. Pig IRON Kelley was soon
to leave the stage where he had played
so great a part as the leader of the