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Salt Lake City, Utah. . - 811-12- 18 UTAHS FALSE TARIFF PROPHET voters of the great "wool and agricultural state should applaud the attitude of Senator Gooding, of Idaho, made the good fight for their salvation and future pros-hi- s successful championship of the tariff schedules of the sovereign bin. seem to justify the senator from Utah, when he discusses the demerits of the protective system, in devoting a few moments to this discussion of the merits of the system as demonstrated by the industrial record of the country under protective tariff. I called attention the other day to the fact that the manufactured products in the state of Connecticut in the year 1919 were greater in value than the entire wheat crop of the United States. We have in Connecticut 4,800 factories. The people employed in they should unhesitatingly give the air to their own senatorial representative, W. H. King, who has persistently rery tariff schedule designed for their protection, and whose ouled purpose, according to his own statement, made in 1919 were 338,000. The wages and salaries paid were $406,467,000. ;eon the occasion of his recent visit, is to throw open the The capital invested was $1,341,000,000. The value of the products nerican market to the exploitation of foreign manufacturers, iarmers and foreign wool growers. King, like the rest of was $1,392,000,000. The cost of materials was $685,000,000, and the dpat cohorts of benighted Democracy, would not hesitate to value added by manufacture was $706,000,000. The average daily lis nation into the throes of industrial despair in his whole wage was $3.56. Now, there may be industries in the country highly e zeal to serve the profiteering importers of . fpreign-madspecialized where the labor is especially irksome and possibly dangerThat such efforts, if successful, would place the workers of ous, where the average of wage paid will be higher than that, but I ed States and our framers and woolmen on a level with the challenge any man on this floor to point .to any state in the Union farmers and wool growers of the Orient, and open the where the average paid for wages upon products similar to those, American-owneof this d with country to direct competition made in Connecticut is higher than the average wage paid in Connecin China and American controlled does in Germany, plants ticut. rently faze the Democratic bewildered sensibilities, be of interest to note that the number of establishments It may leir woeful wails and more or less puerile and pusillanimous in Connecticut in 1899 were 3,382; salaries and wages paid, $85,000,-00igainst predatory and avaricious American manufacturers, The number of establishments was increased 18 per cent from itic Field Marshall the to refer never howlers calamity 1909 to 1919, the number of persons engaged increased 32 per cent, and New York, a gigantic importing concern which and the wages increased 172 per cent. sted millions of its American-mad- e dollars in building fac-- 1 Connecticut industries consumed in 1919, 398,000 tons of anthChina to also has which bought exploit cooley labor and 2,280,000 tons of bituminous coal, 1,447,000 barrels of fuel racite, of German of the the rest factories. Evidently King and oil, 163,000 tons of coke, 32,618 barrels of gasoline, and 627,000 cubic its now the fighting an American protective tariff, prefer Connecticut ranks first among the states in the value feet derived from these Chinese and German importations by hat industry, fourth in silk, sixth in cotton, of products in the fur-fe- lt Marshall Field farmcompany, to prosperity and contented in woolen worsted products. In 1919, Connecticut consixth .and workers at home. It may even be presumed that if they had sumed 54,000,000 pounds of cotton, purchased 33,000,000 pounds of in the from matter, they would permit imports coming cotton yarn, value of cotton $65,000,000, value of manufactured proin Made America, foreign factories, to be stamped, ducts $105,000,000. In 1919 Connecticut purchased 60,000,000 pounds millionaires carry out their scheme to assist these importing of wool, made 200,000,000 yards of cloth, and 69,000,000 yards of shirtc the American people. valued at $68,000,000. Yet, Mr. President, the output of some ing, that the voters of Utah may gain some idea of the magnitude of our factories has been decreasing since 1914. Our costs of manudustrial are entity that King and his Democratic facture have greatly increased. ,eir level best to wreck in faor of foreign manufacturers is true that Connecticut makes about everything that is merIt America n importers and owners of foreign factories, the chantable. When the war broke out the government took advantage from a recent speech in the senate, by Senator Mc-- 1 of the fact that Connecticut was equipped to make probably a greater Connecticut, in answer to a vituperative attack upon the of variety of articles needed for. war supplies than any other state during industries of the east, by Senator King, is herewith her size in the Union. It is a matter of history that Paris would e(h Senator McLean said in part: have surrendered to Germany in 1914 if it had not been for munitions c fact that this is in the the greatest and richest nation made in Connecticut. as by far the further and the in the world, highest wages And Senator King and the Democratic party have branded this a days work in this country will buy anywhere from three and as large an amount of the basic necessities of life as a entire Nut Meg state industry as rapacious, avaricious 0rk will in seeking adequate protection. Think it over. buy in many other( countries in the world, would ersely 0. com-Chica- go of-ga- co-work- s. ers fol-ftcer- pts 1 un-Ameri- can |