The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-03-08
THE TRUSTS CAN LIVE ANYHOW


THE TRUSTS CAN LIVE ANYHOW
The Independents confess that when foreign
competition is knocked out they will be knocked
out also The Steel Trust live and pay div-
dends-much smaller dividends than now but still
dividends.
If the independents continue in business at all,
they say that 1t only be by reducing their
wage scales to foreign standards
As to some of them that is doubtless true 1t
is well known that, had the low prices of steel
with which the present activity in the steel trade
began continued much longer the marginal con
Germs would have gone out of business
funny question: considering its source was
that of Chairman Underwood as to whether the in
dependents could get II the tariff were cut but
dumping clause inserted in the law to prevent
large importations.
1t was Iunny because If 1t we're desired to
prevent large mportations the obvious course is
not to disturb the present law, which does prevent
them.
The fundamental question is rs 'cheapness de.
srable?"
Taking steel example with the exception
of the ore, worth so cents more ton where it
lies steel is substantially all labor.
If steel is cheap, It can only be because labor
is cheap.
And do want cheap labor? II we do, cut out
the tariff and admit the products OF cheap labor.
Then our own workmen will get small wages
job at all.
As for the trusts. they can live anyhow And,
at any rate. they be killed by killing
off their Independent competitors by cheap compe-
ttion.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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SUGAR THE CHEAPEST THING WE HAVE
A great statesman remarked once, Il don't
know much about the tariff, but If we buy suit
of clothes for $50, made in England get the
clothes and England gets the money; but IL pay
$50 for the same kind Of a suit made in America,
We get the clothes and the money both"
The sugar problem reminds us Of this illustra.
ton at the present time. We sending $780, 900.
900 every year out of this country for sugar every
dollars worth Of which could be kept at home9if
the tariff was high enough to stimulate home pro
duction Sugar is the cheapest article of food we
have and is the only article OF necessity which has
not advanced. Under the old regime pound of
meat would purchase one and a quarter pounds of
sugar, pound of meat will buy nearly three
pounds OF sugar.
In face of the fact that we use such an enor-
nous amount more than produce this looks like
something wrong.
We had better pay cent pound more for
sugar, to induce our farmers to make it than
send the enormous amount OF money out of the
country.
The 200,OOO.OOO paid by the Federal govern.
ment pensions is tremendous tax but is not
as great drain the country the 800 100000
sent abroad to buy sugar. The pension money is
spent at home, but the sugar money is gone to
stay .Cordele Rambler.
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STRANGE
In contribution to February magazine.
Woodrow Wilson once more indicates his grave
suspicious of and his hostile attitude toward big
business" He depores the fact that when legis
lation is pending that seriously concerns business
interests Congress is subjected to the influence of
the Interests affected. For example when a tariff
bill is under consideration the manufacturers rush
down to Washington and tell Congress how the pro-
posed changes in the schedules would work in
practical operation. Similarly, when currency leg
islaton is on the calendar the bankers are heard
from. Evidently the Princeton professor thinks
this is all wrong, and that no man with a direct
business interest in legislation should be permitted
to present facts and arguments likely to influence
the action of Congress. 1t is a queer frame of mind
even in Free Trade college professor To whom
shall Congress look for practical information and
technical knowledge relating business legislation
II not TO the practical men of business? Are the
big business men of the country so depraved so
dishonest and so unprncpled that they cannot be
depended upon for truth and facts? Woodrow vii
son seems TO think so.-Amerlcan Economist
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