Show THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF that arrant demagogue ex governor st john of kansas of whom it is alleged that he lie is a prohibitionist for revenue and a tariff reformer for the sime same reason in a speech delivered in the presence of a large audience at madison wis last friday took the position that the whole tariff system was wrong in principle and that the farmer ia is consoled with the blessed assurance that lie is protected W 0 warner of the kew new york tariff reform club democratic said do not think the farmers as ignorant of these questions tariff and free trade as they were four years ago democrats propose to take the tariff off the articles used by the poor and put them on luxuries etc governor mckinley of ohio defended the protective tariff the democratic majority in congress he lie laid passed a bill to wool admit it free of duty for the sole eole benefit of new england manufacturers and the injury of all farmers while leaving the duty on all the woolen articles that man is counted onto wear etc thirty years of protection said mckinley has placed this country in a financial position unrivaled among the nations thirty years ago 93 95 per cent of the hardware used in this country was of english make now 95 per cent is of american make tile democratic revenue only tariff is always paid by the consumer it is easy enough to prove mckinleyl McKin AcKin leya leys position correct easy to show that the protective system by a high tariff is better for all the people than a low tariff for revenue only easy to show that protection keeps up wages and by stimulating competition in manufactures causes the prices of manufactured products to fall and creates a home demand for all ill farm products and that during the last thirty years of republican administration national and individual prosperity has been increasing until today there is not a natien on the globe that compares with ours the people of the united states are better fed butter better clothed better educated and more of them possess their homes home than the people of any other nation that ie is the doctrine tire has been preaching to the people of utah for a long time and we are pleased to eay pay that many of them have been led to study the question of high and low tariff and investigate for themselves the figures and illustrations ar are e easily accessible to all the people and the in tell dellige igent nt citizens of the rural districts have been and are looking into the matter and discussing political questions as never before the effect must bo be good one of the farming class who lias has studied tate subject of the tariff and made comparisons of prices under a low and a high tariff communicates the results of his invez investigations to the brigham city keport report and produces figures which totally disprove the general and very broad assertions of the democrats that the rich man is ia getting richer and the poor man poorer and that the only relief for the poor roan man is the introduction of cheap goods or to open the floodgates flood gates of free trade to the manufactures of other countries the tile argument is unanswerable avo wo quote the condition of the farmar farm ir depends depend 5 u upon anthe the amount of other commodities he can get for bis his wheat and other products the condition of the laboring man depends upon the amount he can buy for a days wages that of the shee depends ends upon the amount he can buy for a pound und of wool and when we introduce figures ures we find that men engaged in these branches ranches of industry or any other aro are be better ater off today under a protective tariff than at any other time in the history of our country the democratic cry Is for cheap goods 11 cheap goods apparently without considering the farmers prices or the laborers wages in 1860 one bushel of wheat would pay for fifteen pounds of sugar twenty yards of calico fourteen yards of cotton ea oth or forty pounds of nails today a bushel of wheat will buy twenty pounds of 8 sugar thirty yards of calico seventeen y yard a r afo s of ri cotton cloth or fifty five fire pounds of nails in 1830 1860 one pound of butter would pay for two pounds of sugar three yards of of calico two yard yarle of cotton cloth or five pounds of nails today one pound of E butter utter will buy three pounds of sugar five y yards ards of calico three ards yards of ot cotton cloth or nine pounds of na nails Is in 1860 one pound of washed wool would pay for four pounds of sugar six yards of py eat calico aco four bards yards of cotton cloth clo ihor or ten pounds of nails nalls today one pound of wool will 1111 bu buy eight pounds of sugar twelve yards of calico seven yards of cotton cloth or twenty pounds of nails in 1860 a labo la borine mans daily wages would pay for twenty pounds of of sugar twenty yards of calico fifteen yards of cotton clot cloth i or thirty pounds of nails today rn a laboring mans daily wages will buy thirty five pounds of sugar thirty four yards of calico twenty five yards of cotton cloth doth of sixty five pounds of nails these of coarse are eastern wholesale prices th this Is en enumeration unie ration might be extended to include nearly every article of common use there aro are people living in this brig ham barn city utah and surrounding settlements who know that during the fifties a period of low tariff fand and democratic rule corn was so cheap the farmers of the east used it for firewood oxen sold for 14 a imir cows for 3 or 1 each pigs for 60 50 cent cents i and other things proportion proportionately atel high and merchants failed banky banks broke the nation was bankrupt confidence lost and the condition of the farmer and anti the laboring man was deplorable in the extreme TUB tax SAS sax report tells of a hungry man who in availed a churchro lari wisa vival meeting in that city and begged for something to eat did he lie get it not much the congregation were too much occupied antho in alie excitement of the hour to pay any attention to such worldly matters as an empty stomach so they turned the man away with an insult instead of bread the report shows the difference between the theoretical religion of many of the christian sects and practical religion by saying that if the man had gone to a salvation army meeting and said I 1 1 I am hungry lie would have received sympathy and succor in the practical form of food and such other assistance as he lie needed and the army could give that is why the army is becoming more popular and respected every day it follows a great example in not only preaching to but feeding the multitude WE NOTICE that quite a number of our country exchanges are giving currency to the statement ept that the liberal party in weber county have determined to continue the old fight the statement itself is true enough but being published without any qualification may convey a wrong impression namely that the said liberal party amounts to very much now while it is a fact eliat the party has determined to continue its organization and make a fight for the offices without any other issue as an in incentive to action the party in this city and county comprises but a small frac tion of those citizens who formerly bo longed to it so that it will not cut a very wide swath in the coming coining campaign it proposes to make up in noise what it lacks in votes buelt is doubtful whether the present leaders themselves expect to accomplish any practical results if aa as we believe the spoils of office are what the liberals are after they are very unlikely to bo be accommodated until they drop their foolishness and get inside the organization of one or the other of the national parties that is the real status of politics in weber county THE tim RICHFIELD RICI IFIELD advocate is of the opinion that boss tuscarora liberal conference should have been opened with the anthem awake awake put on thy strength and closed with the hymn farewell all earthly honors I 1 bid you all adieu what powers said after all the prominent liberal republicans drew out and left him alone with his little coterie of personal friends and admirers their drawing out of the conference so called and the failure of any considerable number of prominent liberal republicans public ans to attend it dashed dished hopes of political preferment to the ground it was when lie realized that he lie was politically a dead duck that lie ile in bitterness of spirit exclaimed farewell all earthly political TINTIC miner evidently supposes it has made a wonderful now new discovery it has not however it only mentions something that has been apparent to the people of ogden for a long time the miner says the editor of ogden post is about the biggest ass we ever heard of his editorials on republicans public ans and democrats are just about as 99 near the truth as that white ia is black he ile is only in the kindergarten department of politics however and if he lie had i grain of sense lie might some day be promoted to the primary room but there is no hope not nol not in a thousand 11 years tim NEW YORK press makes a neat little syllogism on the homestead affair thus no tariff no mills no mills no strikes no strikes no riots the man who cant see fee that protection is to blame for the homestead affair must austbo be blind NEW press it is clove cleve and steve just now but jut it will be clove and stove in the melancholy days of november cleve will be cloven and steve will bo be stoven |