Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-24

protective tariff voted for them III
many instances In one instance a
manufacturer of mating had told the
committee that unless II slight increase
of duty was placed on mating he
would have TO suspend manufacture.
The committee had doubted this. and
the increase was not made. But n
short time ago the press had announced
that the manufacture of mating had
ceased In Maine. where tho factory was
located. and the machinery had heen
taken to Japan. where the manufac-
ture was now conducted.
Senator Smoot explained clearly that
unless the American people wanted to
adopt the same standard Of living as
did the Chinese and the Japanese they
would of necessity have to provide
means for paying better wages than
were paid in those countries, and that
could only be done by a protective
made by cheap oriental labor to come
into America and compete with Ameri-
can labor.
Elt leaving the oriental people aside,
and taking the. civilized countries Of
Europe: In France the railroad en-
poyes recently struck-for what?--to
receive five franks (sl) a day. And
the necessities of life on which the
French working man subsisted were
higher than In this country. Would
America want its people to live on 81
day standard as they would have to II
there were no protective duty on
French-made goods? The speaker
thought not. The same reason for a
protective tariff applied to Germany.
In the Payne bill every interest
known to Utah had been taken care of.
He mentioned the case OF gypsun,6plas-
ter. When that industry started in
Sewer county requests for protection
came from those who had undertaken
1t. a duty had been placed on the plas-
ter and the speaker had been told in
his recent visit to Sewer county that It
was the only thing that had enabled
the manufacturers to ship It's products
to the seaboard and compete with the
imported article. The tariff on lead
had been 1ia cents MS the bill came from
the house, and 1t had been raised to 2M
in the senate, in,urder to, protect the
American miner maGompetition=with
the miners of Mexico...r1'nc tariff re-
moved. MS Champ Clark wanted it.
would place the American lahorer on.
the same wage basis as the laborcr of
China. Japan. Calcutta and all the
low wage countries of the world.
LIQUOR QUESTION.
on the liquor question Senator
Smoot declared that he practised the
preached prohibition and would like to
see the liquor traffic reduced to the
lowest possible minimum.
he called attention to t.V l., p, S..
conference resolution on lie liquor
question for which he had voted ana
which he stood by: Prohibition was
not mentioned in 1t. and was not men
toned in any OF the Church books to
which reference had been made BY the
prohlbitionists, But he favored the
suppression of the liquor traffic. and
the local option method, in his opinion.
was the only method for the effective
control of the traffic. Under It's OPP
Grafton the people who did not want
theliQuor traffic would vote against II,
and would not have 1t. and officers
would be elected who would enforce
the law. In large cities. where the
people did not want prohibition. one
would -,sa enforce II prohibitive state
wide prohibition law. Prohibition Will
not result in the reduction of liquor
consumption, but the traffic would be
conducted in dives, 'and dives cannot
be run without boys any more than
saloons can be run without boys"
God forbid that should ever vote
or work for anything that will put
temptation in the way of any boy. but
/ firmly believe that the method pro-
posed by the Democrats will only in
crease the evil which 1t seeks to
destroy,
NO LIQUOR DEAL.
Nov, l do not know of anything
more | should say as I SEQ 1t is past
10 o'clock.
Yes, there Is one thing more l Will
say. It has been charged that there
was deal between the Republican
party and the liquor interests two
years ago. | declare. IL it Is the last
word speak, that 1t is false.
This charge had been made by the
Salt Lake Tribune and had been Gag
erly accepted and repeated for polit-
ical effect by the opponents OF the Re-
publican party" #
Senator Smoot In reply to a ques-
ton by l.. Hobrook stated that the
Republican platform meant that there
would be absolute prohibitionsain all
parts of the stute outside of cities of
the first. second and third class, and
In tho cities the question would be
settled by vote of the people.
This Interpretation was further eX-