The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-06
come to any non Mormon proved to be
guilty Of a similar offeuse.
PRINCIPLE OF THE TARIFF.


question, and in all the forecasts of
what may be done by the next Con
grcss with respect TO modifying
schedule by schedule or otherwise, the
present tariff rates, there is one prin-
ciple that stands forth unquestioned
in he Republican articles Of faith, that
no party Republican will deny, but
will always affirm, and that is the
benefit and desirability of protection
to American labor through the duties
imposed by the tariff laws. This is,
and always has been, cardinal doc
trine of the Republican party. No Re
publican bnt agrees to it; no Republi.
can but sees in the history of the coun-
try abundant reason for maintaining
and applying that doctrine,
The point upon which the stand.
patters and the proeressves split in
Congress on the recent enactment was
not on the main question. bnt on the
application of the doctrine, The pro.
gressiye Republicans held that the
tariff, as framed in the new Aldrich-
Payne law, is protection to the moropo
lies and trusts. and not to the peo-
pie. The progressives held that this
was wrong application of the Repub.
lican principle, and argued stoutly that
the tariff should be revised on the old
anu well l-proved doctrine of protection
to American labor That is indeed
where the true application of the pro-
tective principle lies. On the founda
lion of the Republic in the days of the
founders, undoubtedly it was applied TO
the building up of manufacturing indus
tries, A large number Of those industries,
however have now been built up, until
they surpass the world. In steel, the
United States makes more than Ger
many and Great Britain put together.
Our makers and workers in structural
steel are able TO take away from com
petitors, in all parts Of the world, the
best and most profitable construction
They are able TO 90 anywhere and
underbid and undersel. To treat an
industry Of this kind as an infant in
dustry is absurd Protection in that
industry is simply designed TO fatten
1T, and 10 oppress the people of this
country instead of helping them, rs
true protection should do.
Likewise in the woolen industry, the
American market is the best in the
world. American ingenuity and Aneri-
can energy are able to make wooden
cloth in competition with any people
on earth. But under the present tariff
law the worsted wooden manufacturers
arc given bonus beyond all reason,
and the carded wooden manufacturers,
TO whom Smoot S notorious g What the
hell do care?" reply was made, are
deprived altogether of protection,
Here is a direct violation of the pro
tective principle, 1t is right to pro-
tcct the worsted wooden manufacturers,
it is right to protect the carded
WOODEN manufacturers, so far as our
laborers are concerned, and so far as
the fostering of wool-raislng in the
country is concerned. But it is not
right TO give one class Of wooleu manu-
factureTs excessive protection and deny
all protection to another class of
wooden manufacturers, Besides, the
present law gives the wooden manufac-
turers complete control of the wool
market. The American wool raisers
are not able to sell their wool any
where except to the American woolen
manufacturers. These manufacturers
take advantage Of the situation and de.
press the prices to the wool grower. This
is source OF discomfort to the woolmcn,
and Justly so, because they united
their forces with the WOODEN manufac
turers, not to be held down by these
but TO share the beDe
fits of protection in their business oil
raising wool.
These are only illustrative examples
of the wrong application of the pro
tective principle. That principle itself
is adhered TO now, as heretofore. by
every Republican But every Republi
can who understands the traditions OF
his party. the principles of his party
platform, understands that the present
tariff law is a departure from real Re-
publican protection, and an imposition
upon the people of the United States.