The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-27

were decreased on those articles which
had consumption value OF Si,s5lSIs.5I5.
while they. were increased on those ar.
! ticles which had consumption value OF
| only $SIS,fh6,074. so that the consumption
value of the articles which the du
| ties were decreased were over i've times
greater than those on which the duties
We're Increased
or the increases. tho consumption value
| OF those affected which We're Injuries.
| TO wit. silks over SiS5 per yard wines
articles. was nearly $500. 900 400. These
are facts, and mus, show any honest
person that the revision was downward.
| Our importations. heavier than at any
other period In the history of our coun-
| Try. demonstrates the downward revision,
! am not one that is delighted with the
heavy increase OF imporiations. for ! re-
| alize the Increase OF importations has
| prevented that same amount Of goods
| from being made by American workmen.
I hope never to see the day when the
American workingman will be forced By
legislation 10 accept the low wage scale
of foreign free trade nations. We must
prevent Europe taking our market. What
advantage Is there i'm being able to buy
foreign made goods cheaply II 10 do so
~e arc first compelled 10 shut off the
forge and the loom2 What would we
gain by having Europe take our market
while we are looking for theirs?
Condition of Markets.
The American market Is the best in
all the world. IT. amounts to S27 900 900
600 per annum. while the export trade
Of all the world, including the United
states, amounts TO but twelve billion
dollars annually.
Every civilized country imposes duty
upon sugar for the purpose of protection
In some cases and In others for revenue.
! Our country has both objects In view
in imposing duty upon sugar. The
DIngley bill imposed a rate OF duty OF
81 95 per hundred pounds, the Payne bill
rate OF Sl.9o per hundred pounds. OF
both of these rates. sl.S25 per hundred
pounds Is for protection and revenue
purposes while the balance is a protec-
lion given TO the sugar refinerIes Of the
United States to encourage tho refining
of imported sugar in this country rather
from Germany and Cuba This gives
our workingmen employment rather than
those Of foreign countries. The Ding
ley law allowed a protective rate to the
American refineries of 12t cents per
hundred pounds, while the Payne act al
lows but ~ cents Per h hundred pounds
part OF the protection afforded the re-
fIneries, but maintained the rate for
revenue and protection to American
sugar the same as the Dingley law,
the present rate is lower than any other
civilized country with the exception of
Great Britain. Our revenue from sugar
alone Is over $50 coo. 900 per annum.
Protection Policy.
The schedule affecting lead carries
lection OF the mining industry In Utah.
And here IL may be AT least interesting
TO note that leading Democrats in this
state. engaged in the mining business,
and who are now assailing the Republi-
can party and Its policy of tariff pro-
lection, appealed to the Republican party
10 retain the protective tariff on lead.
and Joined In declaring to the senate
and house of representatives, that any
REDUCTION In the Dingley tariff on lead
would ruin the mining industry OF this
q oct RIG
so and / appreciated their position and
request, but If the Democratic party had
been In power their appeal would have
been useless. If you can trust the sin
cerity In this campaign OF men who blow
hot and cold on the tariff question you
need not be disappointed at paying
would follow such a bestoWal of conf
denee upon them, Republican policy and
hepublican votes alone maintained the
state.
,, The wool schedule was maintained in
duction III the cheaper classes of ladies'
dress goods and in wooden yarns. There
was a fierce attack on the wool schedule.
material, IL should be allowed TO enter
free: But to the wool producer. the
wool is the finished product and | shall
called. and protection for manufactured
articles only. We were given free wool
by the last Democratic administration
and know what it meant in disaster to
our fair Utah
The importer of foreign made goods
and the foreign corporations were the
basis OF trouble in, the anti-protective
and front of the ones who melted the
agitation adverse TO the protection given
IN bo the s payns law they wsIs the
against the tariff that deceive the unin
formed,
They are the ones who, for their own
gains would crowd down the American
workingman to the level of foreign cheap
er labor competition.
Matter of Responsibility.
Protection is the only policy which en-
abies us TO keep our mechanics at work !
at better wages than their foreign COM
pettors, and enables our mills and fac
1opies ,sbnr IT. to operate l; IN rivalry to cheaper
a change from this basic principle OF
American protection? Not the American
tsrmer, Nai ibo Not the Amerioan manusacturer
American wage-earner. Not the Ameri- |
can business man, Who. then. wants the |
The importer of foreign made goods does !
The demagogue who reaps a profit from /
his agitation does; The politician who |
welfare OF his countrymen does. And |
this comprises about all who do want H. |
except those who may be misled by the
sPecious clanor ana agitation OF theSe
But the Republican party stands un-
and unwaverlngly for the pro-
lection policy that has lifted the country
out OF every, darkened industrial swamp
into which IL has been pushed by the
preachers OF free trade and tariff for
revenue only. and that as long as the
people will II so by the intelligent use OF
the ballot shall keep us clear of the bogs
and mlre which darkened the pages OF
our industrial history from 1893 to 1896
Lead Schedule.
The opponents OF the protective tariff
principle declare that the Payne law was
framed to protect the trusts. and parrot
like, many others have repeated the dec
laraIton. regardless OF the fact hat il
lacks the element OF truth. From my
own personal knowledge. | tell you il was
tho independent manufacturers Of this
country who pleaded for the higher rates
IL was the thousands OF small concerns
whose business was hanging in the bal
ance; II was the struggling manufactur-
crs that | was interested in. II was their ,
statements that were listened to. plead
Ing. for their very existence. They showed
plalDly how the great roniJ sur. !