The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-01

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has been fostcred and given privileges
and advantages till they are dead sure
that II would be impossible for them TO
proceed unlefs they are and er
countries. What Is needed most Is q
thorough wedding out Of their Old ana
antiouated methods and systems OF
handling. breeding and marketing o, their
product. The old slave-holder tho0ght lne
same way before tho people rose up IN
their might and destroyed tne lnhuiIlan
Institution OF human slavery. some pro
gressive elements were given them 100.
II human slavery was wrong. protectloh
for projections sake is worse, Inc oe
tenders OF human slavery used to Try 70
prove by the Bible that 1t was God
given right that tbey were exercising
So far, I haven't heard OF any one Wy =
Ing to justify tho effects OF q nf prPtec1,Se TSe
motives OF the defenders OF the cnrseu
and infamous use OF human beings LOT
their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT were mercenaIE
faction. The motives of the defende ers
OF high protective tariff are no less
Impure or unpatrlotic. They oiter e the
subtle argument OF "give us protection
do we want 1t developed for II the other
fellow Is going to put 1t all In ms Pochel stN ~
We have allowed this sort OF thlns 70 ego go
amassed and the fortunes OF diiierent
| individuals combined. Trusts In TINS way
| have been organized TIL they control a,,u
I
| human being that breathes the only thinS
that's free in this country now-the ar.
| The Modern Progressive Democrats nave
come to stay this onslaught OF greco
they are the humanitarians OF the time
| Like Lincoln Woodrow Wilson has oeeT
called another "emanclpator or human
beings that are being crushed py In. .me
exactions OF organized capitalistic cor. M
| porations. combines, and trusts, III inc
| heretofore boasted liberties of this Grea'
| Republic are no longer within the reecL
more intricate proposition to settle that
was the question OF the Abolition o
Slavery. 1t needs the support of everS
patriot, of every lover OF ms Us. cpnn,,s ba nns,
OF the gallant young Democracy II VII
be the fault OF the people for whose
emancipation that they arc wasing I'M: th
bIoodless warfare. The very founddsattSiI 10,
| OF this government Is at stake IL IN
motives. patriotism added to their "oti
Of restoration, that the Democratc part!
is just beglnnng are not ertsS!Ge he snG' sWp
planted by flag OF red, inc peolPl
will never turn to a party advocatIn'
protection, for succor. M
That is not the sort of talk tha'
the Democrats in this region customarl
lily indulge in when considering TIN:
question. However, it is strictly
Democratic view, which is at the bot
tom Of the revision proposed In the
Wilson. Underwood bill. Es to all th'
rant about protection being akin t'
slavery, and the Government being pn
in peril by it, the appropriate answe
lis "Pifflel' Also, "Pish'
Our correspondent asks if we pylnte'
the report of the Taft Tariff Board
We certainly did, In full as the new
gave it, when 1T was news.
He asks further, do we believe
possible for combines to control with
out protection. To answer this ques
tion we only need to point to Grea
Britain, which is the great mother o
combines Of all the world. To rea'
our correspondent s rhapsody about tn
benefits of free trade, one would SUP
nose that there had never been an.
such thing as combine in Grea
Britain
The illustration given by our corre
spondent of the shecpralsers who tax
. so little account of their wool tina
they give the price Of it to thei
wives for "plni money, will haTdl
; appeal to the sheep-raisers of this IL
gion, who are obliged to depend yer
2 largely upon the price of wool to max
{ both ends meet.
We like to see full and fair discus
S sion of all public questions, and a.
I cordinglv are in no wise reluctant
print the communication of our Hank
i Vile correspondent. although 1t is !
{ fact rather too long to be carried
! newspaper, and is very little to II
{ point as a matter OF fact,