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Show HE GUTS MAD. The Journal Editor raves. BECAUSK THli TOWN 5CRI13E Answers his questions in ;i manner man-ner tint ilm't suit him. Having got tin- iiuprtowio.i Kouiuwhtro that thu Logan Join, nit wi a ilwili nevflapcr, I answered somo questioun whlcli it asked sotnu few weeks ago. Hutituppcnra tlmt ouoof of lliem was not answered to their satisfaction for in an attempted refutation of my nntrwer thli editor slings moro mud than an ordinary editor could gel in th oi col-umii8. col-umii8. In his ravings ho Jssects: "Tho money which built tho faclo.'y 1 now-bid now-bid away, being tied up in tho facto) y. Kvcry dollar of that money might bu earning two per rent a month, wcro It not invested." This is too (rue. Hut who should receive our encouragement, a"Sh)lock" who would exact four per cent a month, or tho man who risks his monoy In somo Industiy thnt will 'help develop our resources, and employ our idle men ? The question Hint ho does not like mv answer lo Is: Suppose tho clear profits nro lesi than two ccnlS, say only ono cent a pound, isnottlioiiggregatuwcallh of tho country reduced ono cent otievcry pound of sugar thu factory produces?" "Ktery day" ho says "wo have lo argue with men to show them that if an article costs seen cents and sells for six, somebody some-body loec.iouc cent." He seems to bo ignorant of tho' fact that somo ono lieslden the owners of a factory aro benefited by reason of ita being In operation. Docs not tho employees em-ployees make somo profit laboring for 42. per day. Se oral homea hnvo been built hero front their profits. Do not the farmers add somo to our- nggrcgato wraith by reason of their farms prodti-from prodti-from 75, to 175. per acre instead of from if 15 to W. If a bounty of say tllO.OOO wns offered to somo iron company and they should bulld.nn Iron. foundry, in )gdei.worih 000,0(Xt,.Cfi tiiiiily llio .ifi,i vgaltT" w ciihlf would not li reduced. It would proli-' ably employ 200 men in tho mills 100 gcltingout and hauling lliooro UK) moio in the coal mines in all probability 500 men would bo directly employed nnd 1,000 moro indirectly, Noty.bpcnnso of tho foundry being in operation no fewer men would bo-employed in our present industries. These men would bo rccrtl-ted rccrtl-ted from tho army of idlo men. Pear Journal won't you coneedo Ibis? Then It is a clear case, thai if ""f aggregate wealth is not decreased by building tho foundiy, nnd tho labor represents so much thnt would othcrwieo have bien idle, the product ot their labor would represent just so muili addid to our aggrcgato wealth. Just so is it with the sugar-factory and bounty, . In concluding his wonderful argument this editor sighs "Oh I for a lodgo in somo vast wilderness." Well tuny lleaicn speed the day when Id sighing may not bo in vain. For w lien a Utah man emphatically declares that ho he Is not "In favor of giving any legislative aid whatever to infant industries" lie certainly shows grave symptoms of a diseased mind. Tnr. Town Sci.ini!. |