Show REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS Where do you Stand on the National Issue of Reciprocity of Freer and Fairer A Non-Partisan Question for Republicans and Demo- which the and not the political w bosses must now Do the Republicans of Utah stand with Taft and Beveridge and McCall and the half a hundred other Republicans in the House who voted for Canadian Or do they stand with the others of the who are against freer trade and in of still higher That is the national issue before the Republican party Utah's congressmen are hedging on this question but they ought to hear from the because they now lean towards the old Utah's chief Herod in its opposition to reciprocity and in its covert advocacy of i still higher tariff What do Utah progressives think of the stand of the party I The False The Herald-Republican takes great joy in quoting the report of the committee of the English Board of Trade to the effect that wages in certain reported suits are per higher in America than in while food and rent in this country are only 52 per cent higher than in f But if and hardware had been re-L the result would have been that these articles I fe 25 to per higher in America than in I And if the report had America with any other European the result would have shown that pays higher wages than any of and that nearly all prices in Britain are cheaper than in any other country in like In English workers are nearer to the standard of our own country than are any other laborers of the excepting those of Canada and who are our if the comparison were made between or on the one and the temperate and favored United States on the no substantial differences could be notwithstanding our more favorable What the Report The London Times shows that the facts disclosed completely dispose of two misconceptions or One is that the higher wages admittedly paid in America are all swallowed up and more by the higher cost of The other is that the inferior position in regard to conditions of living occupied by the other European countries as compared with is caused by their protective fiscal And apart from these two the reports of our own Department of Labor have agreed in showing that while American wages did advance materially during the years in which the cost of living was rising to its maximum point at the beginning of 1910 the advance in wages did in general or in the overtake the prices of the necessaries of important exceptions in life There such were precisely those certain and among trades which the British investigators unhappily hit upon as the basis of their It is true that in the engineering and printing wage than they lost by earners on the whole gained more the upward run of More than any other class of men in the except promoters and the wage earners in the building and engineering trades have been able to profit bj be- cause of the success of their trade Mill work ers in factory unskilled and all unorganized lost more through increased cost of living than they gained in advances of As the New York Independent correctly It is probably true that American labor is on the whole better off than English as English labor is on the whole better off than Continental European The Times is right also in pointing out the logical absurdity of the argument that a protective tariff labor in Europe and benefits it in N What really is proved is that free trade and protection ism must be cut out of the discussion of this subject of we want to get down to the Actual tariffs are not constructed on any economic principle They are made by interests for and it is not a profitable expenditure of time to demonstrate that swell the profits and raise the wages of those elements in the population that happen to be their Can't You See Who so simple that he cannot perceive that it is not the gigantic plundering of the well-to-do ing people of this country by tariff-shielded trusts A that makes America Who does not see t. that it is the vast area of fertile the great natural the free the and thrifty people of America that account for our Yet the Herald-Republican and all other stand-pat deceivers of the people on the tariff question maintain that the prosperity of America as compared with land is not to our hundredfold greater resources not to our freedom from overcrowded not to the absence from America of fifteen hundred years of war not to our freedom from the burden of titled parasites the landed aristocracy of owning of the entire acreage of with a great part of their vast estates exempted from the payment of not to our free universal manhood inventive and hard not to all these but to the made possible by the protective Ameri-can prosperity due to robbery and Out upon the roguery that will brazenly maintain such stuff before an intelligent people For the effrontery of the stand-pat papers is now openly As long as it was party policy to uphold those newspapers could defend it without being charged with bad As long as the people could be led to half believe that the paid the tariff it was both easy and expedient the protected to hire newspapers to do their bidding and to deceive voters and congressmen into doing the voting necessary to deliver the goods As long as to home could b dragged in as an issue to hide the real just that long could the patriotic masses' be deceived into voting for more and more of the tariff under the impression that they were saving certain from the competition of the labors of But in reciprocity with there is no pauper labor Canada pays as high wages as we In the farmer's free list prepared as a supplement to there is no question of to home since most of the articles it admits free are made in these are shipped abroad and sold over the entire world at prices far below what any American consumer pays for And the free list bill simply proposes to let American consumers purchase American goods at a small advance over the price paid by foreigners for these American That advance will be the cost of re-imparting these The Free List Please notice exactly what the Ways and Committee of the House of Representatives calls farmer's free list It is in fact everybody's free The bill agricultural cotton cotton many kinds of boots and barbed fence meats of all flour and cereal biscuits and lath and sewing machines and As the duties now levied upon many of these articles are the attempt that the committee makes in the report which it submitted to estimate the loss in revenue is There can be no loss in revenue on commodities which are already excluded by an extortionate On the other nobody can compute the gains to American consumers as a result of opening our ports freely to necessaries in common as these articles now except of cotton cotton ties and are The proposed free if should immediately introduce competition in fields now exclusively dominated by various law-defying These are the facts about which the stand-pat papers are trying to deceive their Can this attempt Will the people stand for Of course those papers will not give the facts to their For months they have given headlines and have even garbled the news relating to freer fair and to the tariff disclosures that have set all parts of the country to thinking about these Protection In The stand-pat papers are trying to prevent the not only from learning the bare but even from thinking about They assume in so many columns of sophistry per to do the thinking for their by substituting a long vulgar series of sophistries for plain truth and They have in their possession several volumes of books and or reprints of them of say last printed just years ago in and reprinted in in These were issued by the privileged classes who owned the These classes withstood the attempts of the people to get the protective taxes taken off American and so that workingmen's families might get enough to But the plutocrats the landed The taxes were retained on foreign food Many of the people Read the description of the life of the French working peo- pie just before the Half a century later many of the Irish people starved even while American ships laden with were lying in waiting for people who had no money to advance the tariff taxes on these That was the end of protection in In 1846 that country threw off all protection and in 40 years Mulhall's acquired more wealth per capita than she had been able to acquire in the previous years of protective England in forty years of free became the center of the world's commerce and her working people were receiving nearly twice the wages received by those of any other European and became known as being the only people outside of the United and who could afford to eat meat every Yet the knowing these facts their editors are not ignorant actually revamp tales discredited and exploded years They dare to be false to their own false to the progressive awakening sentiment of the American false to President Taft and Republican false to the and recreant to their own simply in like drunken to keep their word and to stick to what they have said Having once maintained that protective tariffs are they like will keep on maintain-ing it will stand by what they once mistakenly They like behead the people's John Baptist Taft simply in order to keep their se-Cret oath with the that profit from the so-called imS la of in sheep An volume of interest to all Contains hild Nine irrigation Good Roads Banking School Insurance Pure Food Price 25 cents' Helton |