The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17

under our free institutions as any inner
tied aristOcracy of Europe; and as the
| barons and privileged class under feudll-
ism were permitted TO exact open and
direct tribute from the masses in Varl-
Gus ways. today is the government IN
directly protecting and building up an
/ aristOCTaCy of wealth. which, in the hght
of the age and our free political insti-
tutiOns, is more despotic and intoler9ble
than any governing class ever before
1 known; ana, as We SOW. so snail we
reap 1t is true OF individuals and nd
tiOns. As an offset. socialism in most
/ radical form is rapidly growing. and even
anarchists are now known in every en-
l1Ehtencd country. Including our own
] Labor is organizing along lines suggested
/ by the action Of our privileged classes,
| and monopoly is the watchword. with re-
I strictiOns on the number of apprentices
TO be permitted. arbitrary regulation Of
4 wages. hours of employment restriction
1 of labor and production. Class distinc-
I tons are growing and becoming popular.
! Capital i'm the hands of the few and or
/ ganized labor are each preparing for the
] inevitable conflict of the future. | am
not a pessimist- ! have faith in the
| people and great hope for the future
| but the masses are slow to move, and,
] like a herd of sheep, when once unduly
/ excited, run headlong TO extremes.
Early Tariff Theory.
| The theory upon which the Hamilton
tariff of 1870 was imposed and, generally
speaking, all subsequent tariffs until the
/ Walker tariff of 1913, was that of revc-
nue., that the industry of the country
was largely agricultural. and that it was
/ of public Importance that we have di-
versity of industries, and to that end m
/ FAINT manufacturers should be aided by
the law until they were sufficiently es-
tablished to be able to compete with for
eign industries. The Morrill, tariff, en-
acted in the midst of the civil war, sprang
directly from the necessities of the gov
( erllment Tor revenue, and the duties i'm
posed upon foreign imports by that Ia
riff have been increased by each new
tariff since enacted into law, with one
exception
Prosperity inevitable.
In other words, the older and stronger
an industry becomes. and the weaker its
competitors, the higher the tariff tax
should b.. But the reply is made that
under this system our country has pros
pered, and that is true, but it would have
been difficult to prevent the prosperity.
Our country was prosperous under low
tariff. Prosperity has existed under every
form of government. 1t has from the be-
ginning grown as no other nation ever
did before. and why:
Il. Our free governmental institutions.
~ The energy, enlightenment and en-
terprise of our people.
IS. Our inventive talent and the mar
velOus increase in labor saving machin-
cry and our adaptability of its use.
Il Our natural resources in food and
clothing and home building opportuni-
ties, with unlimited stores of coal, iron,
copper, lead and other minerals.
>. Low taxation. as compared with
our competitors, who not only maintain
large class of professional n0n-produc-
tive aristocrats, but enormous standing
armies. thereby. in comparison, lessen
ing the burdens on our industry.
Spirit of the Yankee Unceasinu.
our people exhibit the most unceas-
ing and resistless energy and activ
ity ever found in any ration. The Yam
kee has developed a degree of business
capacity never found in any other char
acter The bravest. strongest, most aC-
gressive and bold of every country have
forced their way into this land of free
institutions and almost unlimited natural
resources. They were made of the n.y.
teTiai that does not hesitate to brave the
perils of the sea and a new land. though
for centuries under the dominion of the
most fearless and cunning savage. They
brought with them the best OF their own
countries and have welded it into a COM
mon wealth never before equaled. 1t is
like great giant just realizing his
mighty powers
In England lsboring men are hostile
TO new machinery, do not give their en-
ployeIs the benefit of their discoveries
are less inventive and believe new ma
chinery hostile TO their interests.
In Germany they are slow. Flooding,
methodical, without inventive talent,
bound closely by tradition. Our work
men are just the oppOsite-the most in
telligent. inventive and energetic. SO
much so that foreigners coming here gem
orally arc carried along with the inspirl-
ton and energy about them and soon
break away from the traditions of their
fatherland and become American.
Triumph of Machinery.
our wOrkmen produce twice as much
as the worimcn of other countries, but
this does not compare with the advan-
tage gained with its combination with
new labor saving machinery. The Good
year sewing machine for turned shoes
with one man. seWs go pairs of shoes
in one day. The Mckay machine with
one man, handles 300 pairs of shoes daily
where without the machine the man
could handle but five in the same time.
This is only one example. In "A Connec-
ucut factory seventy machines. directed
by one maChinist. three operatives and
one boy, produce 100000 pins, all placed
ir papers and ready for sale, in one day-
The compressed air drill, which not many
years ago could only strike TWENTY-FIVE
blows minute, strikes 800 blows "A min
ute now We Surpass the world i'm the
manufacture of many of the most i'm
portant commodities. among which are
the cheapest and best steel rails and piC
iron, fine shoes. agricultural implements,
sewing machines. etc. At the Consoii-
dated Wagon & Machine company in this
city last week l heard a farmer saw
who had just come from Canada, that
he could buy the pillow he was examining
manufactured in the same factory and of
identically the same brand. The same is
true as to various other products Mo-c
patents have been issued to American pat
entees than to Great Britain and France
combined More patents have been is
sued in America between 1870 and 1900
than were issued in the same time to
Great Britain. Belgium. Germany Au-
stria- Hungary and Spain combined
Country's Natural Wealth.
The 2 su Age says we shall produce
this yea. 100000 tons of pig iron. In
1885 the United States produced more than
one-haf of the worlds output of copper
and 1t has been rapidly increasing ever
since. In 1905 we produced $4,000 tons
OF lead and in 1904 We produced more than
one-half of all the petroleum of the world
The same Is true as to cotton and corn
yet copper. corn and cotton received no
benefit from the tariff
Although our national expenditures
amounted to more than 500. 600 more
during the last four years than during
the same period Immediately prior the
burden of our national taxes in ratio To
our production is about s. per capita or
about 312 per cent upon the value of the
entire national product at its point of
export and consumption, while in its
connecting manufacturing counties -.