Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-25

MaEtS' anu our 'roseatc expectations"
realiAed, why should we now, when
.aceorles are closed and an army of
men unemployed, seek Ia revise the
peneiicient measure at all?
WAGES AND HIGH TARIFF
II the wages of labor depend upon
u nigh tariH, why should any man
loVor reduction OF that tariff? IL.
after II years of surprising prosper
Ivy Drought about by the Dingley bill.
business conditions and labors aur-
Ter why not excite some more "ios-
cute expectations by raising the tar
IN rate TO the end that there may
be a much needed revival of business
ana mat labor may again find em-
ployment?
The voters of America are not likely
20 be deceived as to the turiff ques-
'lon by the stock arguments OF the
opposition The average voter UNDER
stands that the tariff is a tax To be
paid by the consumer OF the article
taxed He knows that taxes in eN-
cess Of the needs of the government
are unjust and oppressive and that
extravaganza in government admins
uation INDUCED IN for the more pur-
pose Of creating necessity for ad
ultlonal taxation, Is prpfligaCy.
He Is also coming TO know that the
use OF the taxing power of the gov
efnment in such ways that few bene-
ilclaries may enrich themselves by levy
ing tribute upon the mass F, is Iegali2el
robbery.
Every Legitimate business interest in
the country is demanding tariff reform
The manufacturer who is not a mo-
nopollst is demanding cheaper raw ma
terals, and wider markets for his prod
ucts. The workingman understands that
restricted market means fireless FUR
naces and enforced idleness He knows
that American workmen, with their SUI
pesior Intelligence and ingenuity, with
their improved machinery, with cheaper
raw materials and earning for their en-
ployers more than twice as much as the
laborers Of any country have nothing to
fear from competition with worknen
anywhere when@the products of their
labor are set down side by side in the
markets of the world
The American workingman has had
bitter experience under the operation
of the Dingley bin. Under the shelter
OF this tariff wall trusts and combines
nave sprung up on every hand and
with eXtortionate prices confront the
consumer on every occasion when seeks
consumer on every occasion when he
seeks to buy the neCessaries of life.
COST OF LIVING INCREASED.
Under this system the cost OF living
so increased as to absorb the earnings
of the labOrer, after the most rigid
economy and self dental on his part, and
that of his family. And 1t Is a note
worthy fact when. as an inevitable re-
suit of the fiscal policy of the Repub-
lean party, the panic Of 1907 came,
hundreds of thousands of these
American laboreTs who were thrown
out of employment instead of be-
ing able to draw upon the fabulous
savings bank accounts so exploited In
political literature in recent campaigns,
found themselves and families in
state of desttutiOn.
The soup houses of l901-S in the large
cities of the country were realization
of but Il part of the roseate eXpecta-
lions of Republican statesmen.
The farmer understands that while
he has to buy everything in a protected
market he is compelled to pay tribute
to the trusts and tariff beneficiaries,
he is compelled to sell his surplus pro
ducts in a free trade market where he
comes I'm competition with all the rest
of the world.
He looks no longer with Indifference
upon the fact that the farmer of Can
ada, Argentina, Australia and other
civilized countries buys agricultural i'm
plements of American manufacture
cheaper than they are sold TO him. In
these days American farmers read and
think, and are fully advised as to the
evils of a system which invites such
enormities,
Thinking people of all classes are be-
coming Interested in the moral aspect
OF this question. The president in Wig
orous language has pointed the evils
which have grown out of the existence
of swollen fortunes" the most of
which have been amassed by the bene-
ficiaries of this system.
Senator La. Toilette, In a speech de-
livered in the senate last March, ex-
hibited q list OF less than 100 men who,
he declared controlled ths industrial life
of the nation. and hold in their hands
the business of the country. A casual
reading Of this list shows that ii is
made up Of men who have been the
beneficaries Of legislation or fitvorltes
In the administration of the law.
EWOLDEN FORTUNES.
The president rails against swollen
fortunes as menaCes to the public well
fare and as promotive of evils which
eat at the very heart of society.
As remedies nc has suggested an in
come tax and an inheritance tax. that
their growth may be to some extent
checked.
The national convention of his party
is silent upon the question of these pro-
posed reforms, while the possessors of
most of these swollen fortunes. allied as
they are with the dominant forces
of the Republican party. are giving
generous support to the Republican ma
tional ticket.
DEMOCRATIC REMEDY.
The Democratic party, while favornG
the reform measures repudiatcd
by the Republican national convention,
has another remedy. II would by leg
islatlon. in large degree cut off the
streams Of money which under the
present system are flowing from every
home in the land and emptying into
the Golfers Of the trusts.
1t would leave In the pockets OF the
producers and laborers of this land
every dollar Of the money they earn,
save only such amounts as may DO
needed for the economical administra-
ton of the government,
II would by rigorous law enforce
ment strike down private monopolies
| which prey upon the people, and pros
| tect the public against eNtortion and
| imposition by the great public corpor-
atiOns. whether by excessive charges