Show I I FACTORIES WILL IITIIL I Supt W H Howe Says i Will I Not Hurt Them a Bit I J i lbs Shoe Fccorips Ire More Thai Able to I vCinin > eto With the World in an Opau I Jlarker l Tho most important manufactory in 1 Utah in thus number of men employed is I the Z C M I shoo factory It is the only i factory in this city of any consequence that i can be affected by tariff legislation i I was natural to believe that Tint Hart AbC in a search for a concensus of opinion would lad a roorback hero that would upset j up-set all the favorable opinions i could pickup pick-up elsewhere Even the reporter detailed to collect this symposium of the factory wheels expected to hear a groan and a jarr j when he tackled W H Rowe the superintendent I superin-tendent for it was on this factory that 1 President Harrison during his visit to this I city read with a noticeable swell of satisfaction I satis-faction tie words inscribed on either side ol his portrait on a great streamer u Protection to j u American iuiluitrles j When the reporter entered the great Z C M I establishment he heard the bum of busy workmen and tho whirrr of wheels j Around tHe business office were a dozen men awaiting tneir turn to transact i a little business Mr Howe was in demand de-mand every where and when the reporter I caught sluht of the big protectionist he did not wear a woebegono expression nt it ho had lost his last dollar on Harrison but j was chipper ana sanguine as a man who I I likes to have business crowding him I Will you be forced to close your factory on account of the elcption asked THE HCKALU man j Mr Rowo did not seem to fathom the Intent I in-tent of the question and remained silent for a uiornout aTire Tire HKUALD wants to know how the i election will affect your business said the scribe by way of explanation Do you want to know the exact truth P I inquired Mr Rowe assuming a sad cast of countenance as I he had something direful dire-ful to loll For the instant the reporter felt like saying say-ing that ho only wanted It for the paper allowing Mr Howe to infer that u was only desired for effect But TDK HBHAII reporter could not even by Implication be the instrument to deceive thedear public and spokeboldly out THE UUUALD WANTS rue TRUTH The truth is said Mr Rowe it wont hurt us a bll This after thecampaign confession was a startler and Mr Rowe was now asked to explain You see he said the shoo industry is in this country at the top notch of prosperity prosper-ity We can make better shoos and cheaper than they can any place in the world Our machines are more perfect and our opera tors moro intelligent and we can defy the world We can male neater and better shoes for less money than they can bs produced pro-duced in Europe And Mr Rowe went on to explain where the high tariff worked an injury by mentioning a number of materials ma-terials that go into the manufacture of shoes which allow the American protected factories to make a specialty and to charge the trade an exorbitant price for the same simply because the tariff kept out opposition opposi-tion Among these he mentioned the elastic that is used in the sides of shoes instead eastc stead of buckles or strings I |