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Show PFMrNCIATlOV Of MSrf ACTL'FtKHS. The democrats nnvsrtirfl of drmminc-iug drmminc-iug tlio m-nnfu'tiiri rs. In Sen-at'.r Sen-at'.r ,i-'iT of ?.iiJ'0''ri, declare I that ( l e )ir'y rt'js;;-.l in ft "w:ir to tho ! ' d-ttl'" wit1' ',';i-o'.1"'.ed ini'.'ii'rics, ! ! r.-A demv-rrtic orafj" a..c' vnty ckae j Xi thi prnp.-i-it'on. Our remb'n will j rC0f;ni.e 'he trvh of tho statement at j a gl-ti.cn. Kvery mio who has listened to dc;r. i-r.ttio sprrclies or read d;imo-r.ralle d;imo-r.ralle literature wl.'l ba'-o been struck by the uncfas'iiB arraininfiit of manufacturer' man-ufacturer' ehpr-.cteribtic of that school of poli.ii'i. From democraiio u'ter-niii-es wo n.ii;lit infer that the people w ho are n(ia,:cd in manufacturing ra eiii'inii'S of the rice and thai they ought by right tu bo extcnuir.atod. They arc 'nionoporists," "roblicri." "vampires.'1 "vultures," and most everything that is objoctirnablo, according to current del ocralio doctrine. Tho public is taught that the manufacturers are a lot of cormorants who fancn o!T of tho no-rcisitii no-rcisitii of the people and that it is a righteous duty to htriko them down if possible. Some democrats may insist that they do cot int.a to give manufacturers such a character, but wo submit that such is a fair interpretation to put upon dnniocMtio toae'iugs, and we assert that tho demccratic position iu this respect overreaches all bounds In its absurdity. Tho groat majority of manufacturer are comparatively small operators. Thiir factories stand in hundreds upon hundreds of villages rnd towns throughout the country, giving employment each to a small force of workmen and each yielding a modest lucome to its owner. Thon there is smaller number of great establishments es-tablishments built tip by tha tireless energy of pushing men. Tbeje each employ an army of w orkmen, but then are comparatively very few of the owners of such who are known as men of great wealth. Tho great millionaires are not found in the rauks of the manufacturers, manu-facturers, while those, manufacturers who are very rich have no uioro than has been acquired by men of similar tuterpriss in tha old country. It is no crime, for a man to extend his business until it shull roich immense proportions and yinld him a largo revenue. rev-enue. It is no crime for a stock raiser to add to his herds; no crime for a mine owner to add to his mines; no crime for a farmer to add to his acres; no crime for a merchant to add to his trade even though it be extended until, like that of some of the groat houses, it runs up over $.0 .000,000 annually; but if a manufacturer man-ufacturer builds up a great establish oiciit he becomes a public enemy, au unpunished criminal, according to tho democratic idea. Thu democrat asserts that the protective tariff gives the manufacturer man-ufacturer undue advantages, but thu business records cf the country do not bear this out. There is nothing to show tbat the protected industries reap undue profits. The forties built up in manufacturing do not Cejmpare with those that have grown I bTit jf merchandising. merchan-dising. Thon, if it were true thst the manufacturer enjoys profits that he does not earn, his. lino of business would soou be invaded by competition, for capital does tut long permit any man or set of men to enjoy a monopoly of a good thing. The truth is that this democraiio attack at-tack upon the manufacturers is made for the purpose of inflaming thu niii.ds of men who are far removed from the manufacturing centers, to mat o them believe that their interests are being preyed upon by others and to s.ioure their votes in support of a theory of political po-litical economy which is calculated to strike down tho manufacturing industries, indus-tries, and which fkids an honest exposition expo-sition in the mode of attack referred it. It sounds well bo long as the object of attack !s far away, but peoplo will be incli -d to give it a littlo local rpplicv ti-.-i in L'ta'.i. What p. -Id be thought oi tho political orator wfco should go on the Fti r.p licro ar! tel' th pwnp'a that the Co-op. shos factory was an overgrown over-grown Monster fattening cn thi life-blood life-blood of the community, woo should anuouncu 'rom tha platform that tho Provo woolen mills wero a menace to the wolfarn of the poop's, or that tha Doserot piper mill was a lee.th that should be crushed ? This whole deruocratio outcry against tbs manufacturing industries is one of the most unpatriotio demons'rations that recent political history has furnished. furn-ished. We have some respect for tho enemy when they undertake to msiu-t msiu-t .in tha unadt.itcrated ptoposition thai it i bott"r tu send our money abroad to purchaae tho products of foreign fao-toricj, fao-toricj, Li lit we must confess that we cannot listen with equanimity to their abuse and denunciation of the Auiorl- con manufacturer ss a rUs3. |