The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-01-29
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| The trial jury in the case of the
protective tariff arraigned last year
for the high cost of living disagreed
large majority of the jurymen vot.
ing for acquittal. But because no of
the disagreement the protective tar
In has been lynched, after Offering
clear and indisputable evidence Deg to
prove an alibi. There was never ev.
en- strong circumstantial case
against the accused. and very soon
after the 1ynching in November the
prosecution began making cautious
admission Of the plain fact that the
! crime was mot only q continuing one.
but growing in enormity. Mr.. Wilson
did not wait until his Inauguration to
issue warning against building too
| great expectations Of reducing the
cost OF living through reducing the
tariff rates Senator Williams of Mis-
sissippi, during the tariff debate in
the Senate, reached a higher empha-
sic IN saying that reduction in living
cost was not to be looked for ~. as
result of reduction in duties. But
the most complete exoneration of the
protective tariff is set out in the re-
port of the department of agriculture
under the Democratic administration
| prepared since the protective tariff
was buried gJ'DU3g JGea Yr iH,i
This is a most interesting and with
al most encouraging and discourag-
ing report. 1t shows that. in spite Of
the long drought OF 1913. the increase
in acreage Of crops and the high
prices prevailing make a total value
| Of 10000 900, 900 in crops raised on
100000 farms ~ This is a higher
value than was ever before reached.
But In spite of the fact, as officially
| ascertained and set out, that there
has been an increase Of II per cent
| In the number Of titled farms, the
department OF agriculture again tells
the anxious ultimate consumer who
has been hoping much from free
trade, that his hope is delusive and,
that It would have been no less de-
lusive II the drought had not come.
However desirable increased produc-
ton on farms may seem to be from
the consumers standpoint, says this
official statement, 1t does not follow
that such increased production would
result in any increase in the cash
income per farm, or per capita OF
farm population, or that prices paid
by consumers would be any lower.
In explanation OF this remarkable
confession, when made by a Demo
cratic administration which has just
placed a low tariff law in the stat.
utes, It is said that had the total
production even exceeded that OF
1912 1t seems probable that the cash
income per farm might have been
less, and that 1t is extremely doubt
full whether the cost to the consumer
would have been any less The long
line of distributors middlemen, be.
tween farmer and consumer is In h
position to take advantage, Of the
market and to a certain extent con-
troll the market. This condition is
Undoubtedly marketing problem
which will have to be solved by bet
ter organization of farmers and i'm.
proved methods Of marketing. ---
This was the Republican argument
of last year. 1t now becomes the
Democratic argument OF this year 1t
was a part of the pleading made in
defense of the protective tariff and a
part Of the evidence offered for the
alibi. It Is not even now inspired
by stricken conscience on the part
of the Democratic prosecutors Of an
innocent defendant. The majority of
jurymen were convinced of that in.
nocence, but because of division and
disagreement, the unconvinced de-
PENDANT fell victim to an enraged
and deluded crowd of ultimate consul
mers, That crime is unredeemed by
a single compromising fact or cir
cumstance. The same report sets
out that although the ultimate con-
sumer may have to pay even more,
the producer may get even less, ow.
ing TO methods of distribution by
combined middlemen and not at al!
owing to the protective tariff which is
! no more. This echo Of a Democratic
administration % last years Re-
publican campaign is raised not to
vindicate che wronged, but to forestall
public wrath growing out of public
disappointment, Ttere is fear OF
political reaction. For though the
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