Show She protection humbug B Senator Smoots Argument at Ogden B by J. H. Paul Bl Democrats and every Ee-Man progressive in Utah Bl be grateful to Senator Bt for his stand on the himself a He advertised the fact Bhe actually believes all the that was refuted by Adam Smith and J. he clings to what has been Bd since that day by every Kal including the believed in some sort of B Senator Smoot said Bur heavier Hut any other period in the of our demon the downward I Bt one that is delighted with heavy increase of for I realize the increase of Rations has prevented that of goods from being V American here that exists nowhere B protectionist's Porting goods does not Americans of if it Bb does the senator boast Be creased importations un- Payne Imports are for All of our B in the-economic for American B all the exports for The more more we shall W the Be a billion dol-Borth of products Wm a hillion dollars' worth Bent for When a f Utah wheat is sent abroad and a yard of French silk is the silk is the pay for Never do the French send us their Never do we send them But we ship to them the goods that our labor has produced and the pay consists in the goods produced by their The yard of silk by our own Through the a Utah farmer a yard of silk every time he raises a surplus bushel of wheat for the foreign Senator Smoot proposes to prevent the farmers from producing a surplus and exchanging it for the surplus products of other That is genuine as he truly Fully carried it would stop all it would make every nation stop and would make them in the sense he argues they import simply because they export But the more a nation the more it and the richer it This is-true of a a or a This has been proved by every writer on and by the statistics of every civilized Does the World Senator simply relies on ignorance of the supposed hearers and the priests who condemned for saying that it was the earth moved and not the The priests the people see that the sun comes up and goes the protectionists the people see that importing goods will throw our own people out of Most of the people once supposed that they could see this but the light is breaking in upon them as it did upon the people who condemned The fact is exactly the opposite of the santor's and his whole argument convicts Argues Both He praises the Payne law for increasing importations and for lowering yet he says imports throw our people out of work and low tariff rates paralyze that he in protection all the way yet says that he helped to lower the He claims credit for keeping up the tariff on wool and yet praises the Payne tariff because the act there were to only in the Already he is trying to carry water on both and no reading his argument can tell whether he is praising the Payne tariff because it lowered the rates or because it raided the But aside from his he seems to proclaim himself a and for this stand both Democrats and progressive Republicans ought to thank the Utah That Free Trade The senator am a protectionist without I believe in the protection of American labor and American I thank God I don't have to apologize for that My country's history justifies me in that I have witnessed in my more than the industries of my country flourish under and have seen them paralyzed under Democratic tariff for revenue There has never been a for during the senator's There was a slight change made by the Democrats a number of the protective rates nearly a year after a panic had begun under a Republican but that change was no more like tariff for revenue only than washing your face is like drowning The change in the rates was so small that President Cleveland refused to sign the and he also denounced it because it was so little like a tariff for revenue A beginning in South swept round the and that panic was felt here as The has never seen in his lifetime a tariff for On his showing the Payne tariff law reduced the rates more than did the Wilson yet he to believe that the latter was a tariff for revenue and that it projected its shadow a year in advance of its enactment and the country's industries twelve months before it came into The Greatest American Is it not possible that like honest Republicans those in this state will yet see through greatest sham and fraud of American This fraud masquerades under a good and plausible as frauds usually That motive is protection of home industry from the cheaper labor But taking the instance lauded by Senator Smoot as a type of all the others the protection of lead what do we Simply protected by a prohibitory American white lead is selling at German ports of with freight and insurance at cents per American white lead sells at wholesale in New York for 6 cents a pound the result of the of which the ator And this is the case most of the other protected |