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Show EDITORIALS. KIOHT KIND OF TALK. The Logan Journal has been pouring some hot shot into the Republican organ or-gan of that town. It appears Prof. Paul has been to the Temple City of the North and converted all but a corporal's guard of the people of Cache county to Democracy. This roused the Xatiot,, and, it representing a "strong government," govern-ment," diu not stoop to misconstrue a little in order to convey the impression i that Prof. Paul misrepresented the facts. The Republican paper said: Prof. Paul deliberately left the impression im-pression on his audience that those tariff ligures showed how much more farmeis paid for the articles than they should and how much they are robbed. If anybody was momentarily so deluded delu-ded it is only necessary to advert to the fact that some of these identical articles arti-cles can be bought for actually less than the taruf alone, say nothing of the ;;ost of manufacture as in the case of salt, while all of them can be bought for ies than first cost and tariff added." The Journal then adds: For example sugar. Its price in this country now is exactly halt a cent (the present tariff tax) plus the cost of Height, higher than in England. The price in England is about four cents; the price here is about live cents at our sugar relinei ies. Formerly, witli the tax of '6i cents on refined and two cents on raw -eurjar the price was from S to 12 cents here, and from 4 to 5 cents abroad. The salt item is insignificant. We do not use on our tables, to state it fat-within fat-within the truth, one dollar's Worth ol salt where we use fifty dollars" worth of sugar. If the price of salt is not en-nanced en-nanced by the taritl'tax it is because of our vast beiis of mountains of salt, not because of a tax on salt. The sail producers may be too numerous to combine, and that is all there is to the silly assertion that the tax on salt makes salt cheaper. Pi iron is another example. It sells for $(5.72 more per ton in this country than it does abroad, that beimr the amount of the tax per ton. Sewing machines furnish other examples. ex-amples. Even those made in this country are sold cheaper in England than they are here. Woolen clothing of all kinds is another an-other example. The suit that costs $20 here, csts $10 there. (Stockings, woolen underwear, shaw ls and blankets differ in price here and abroad in the same manner. If anyone desires corroboration cor-roboration of this statement let him ask any person recently from England who bought clothing there. The same is true of steel rails, and of the thousands of manufactures in iron and steel. Once in a while the members mem-bers of the steel rail trust qua ml among themselves and the prices fall foraiewdavs almost as low as the foreign prices. Bat these cases are rare; the quarrel is quickly settled and prices raise again. Linens are twice higher here than abroad; so are silks and most kinds oi cotton goods. Hammers, saws, planes and thousands thous-ands of implements are dearer here than they are abroad. Paper, stationery, station-ery, toys, carpets, lurnituie, glass, silverware, sil-verware, crockery, t-hiiiaware, in fact all the great staple articles of manufacture manufac-ture cost much more here than they do abroad. And when the Renutilican organ tells us the price of salt in this I country of salt lakes, salt mountains, salt beds and salt springs, and says the low price is due to the lax on salt; when it talks of wire nails but Ooes not dare to give the foreign ju ice of wire nails or of any other naiis so that comparisons cannot be made it wrices itself down as the same brilliant philosopuer as it was two days ago when it denounced the Democratic party because, it said, if no revenue weie needed that party would be in favor of no taxes at ail. The following is another characteristic characteris-tic Republican argument: In Holland, an ideal free trade country, coun-try, a suit of clothes can be bought a few dollars cheaper than in the United states, becausa the workmen perform their labor for less wages, but their working people make so little they are forced to live entirely on a diet ol potatoes po-tatoes and bacon. The people of Holland live in a little country of limited natural wealth. Our country is a hundred times larger and richer in natural resources. Tnat our people are not many times richer than the thrifty Dutch is largely due, to the fact that our government places much heavier burdens upon us. We lrequently hear the same comparison com-parison made between this country and overciowtlt'd Fnuland with her ol7 people peo-ple per square mile., But the Kcpubii-cans Kcpubii-cans eaiemliv conceal the fact that in free England wages are higher than in any protected country in Europe. Compare Com-pare Germany ami Fimland, the latter being bv far the more densely populated. popu-lated. The following table of wages paid weekly in the countries is to be found on page"23SS, Vol. II of the report if the United States Tariff Commission: 4. German v. I tjigkuul, Occupations r,oUH.ti;. Free tra.k-, Bricklayers.. &J.4. 1- Masojs 4.00 8.10 Carpenters.. 4.18 8.2-5 Painters.. .. 4.00 7.2-3 Plasterers... 4.85 8.10 Blacksmiths.; 3.00 ' S.12 Cabinet mak; ers 4.05 ! 7.70 Dvers 3.30 7.00 Weavers ' 3.U0 ' 5.-10 Grinders in glassware.: 4.S7 10.02 Common laborers. la-borers. . . . ; 2.00 5.00 This is the official comparison of wages between two equally civilized and indusii iouw natl;n, under the same general conditions, except that one is protective, the other free trade. In any other comparison of these wa es with those paid in this country, the greater purchasing power of money in Europe should be borne in mind. |