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Show the raw materials and a "large and rapidly growing army of consumers. A score of other promising irdustries might also be mentioned. In fact, the best campaign document would be a complete list of the articles protected by the McKinlet bill, accompanied by statistics showing the growth of American Ameri-can industries under the fostering care of the Republican protective tariff. It will be of no use whatever for Democrats to tell the ambitious people of the great and hopeful West that they haye no persona! interest in the pending pend-ing fight between protection and and free trade. The outcome of the battle means more to Utah than it does to Massanhusetts, because Massachusetts possesses the accumulations of a long j and prosperous industrial era, and Utah stands only upon the threshold of such an era. UTAH IN THE TARIFF FICHT. With characteristic wrong-headed-ness western Democrats are arguing that the protective tariff is a matter that applies only to the manufacturing manufactur-ing communities of the East, for whose selfish benefit the citizens of western west-ern states are taxed a great sum. They say that the western part of the country has nothing to hope for from protection aud ought therefore to be against it. This is putting the matter in exact reverse to its true aspect. If there are any communities in the United States that can get along well enough now without a protective tariff to make up the difference in the price of foreign and home labor they are the weli-established industrial communities com-munities of the East, where capital is already invested, labor trained and the home market secured. On the other hand, if there are any communities whose future manufacturing manufac-turing growth and absolutely demands the assistance of the tariff, they are the new states and territories of the West, where capital is yet to be interested, in-terested, where skilled labor is yet to be developed and where the markets for the products of home manufactures are yet to be made secure. Take Utah, for instance. She has a marvelous variety of the raw materials and is far better fitted to become a great center of manufactures that Massachusetts, Rhode Island or New Jersey. She has already a larger heme market than those three states hadVwhen they began the production of a great variety of manufactured ar-ticlls. ar-ticlls. Furthermore, we live in swifter times and the future development develop-ment of tne home market for Utah manufactured goods will be even more rapid than the growth of the eastern market has been. There is no reason to fear that the consumer of manufactured goods will not easily keep paco with the producer in this section of the country. The fact is that Utah has the most vital interest in the maintainance of the tariff law in its full strength and vigor. Not only would some of the leading interests that now sustain her be crippled by ths destruction of the tariff, but her whole industrial future would be imperiled. That is the most prosperous state that has the greatest diversity of interest. in-terest. That is the most profitable trade that caters to near marke'ts and feels most lightly the burden of transportation. Utah can become a great state on the terms that have made Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania great, but she can not become a great state on the terms that the English press and the wrong-headed wrong-headed Democratic politicians are seeking to dictate to her. Some things are so plain that even the Democratic mind can absorb them. One of these things is that Utah would be infinitely foolish to vote for a reduction reduc-tion of the price of every pound of wool she raises and to discourage the extension of the profitable sheep in- uusiry among mese mountains. Another Republican truth which furnishes its own illumination for the Democratic mind, is tho fact that the repeal of the duty on Mexican load would bring down wages in every mining camp, because the unsavory Greaser in the mountains of Mexico values his labor so much less than the intelligent American citizen in the mountains of Utah. These things are plain, but there is a much broader application of the protective pro-tective doctrine to be made to the nascent industrial life of Utah, and between be-tween now and election it should be brought homo convincingly to every voter in the new West. The McKinley law protects not only our lead and wool, but all the products of the farm; the mine and the factory vhich now engages, or shall engage hereafter, capital and labor in this section sec-tion of the United States. Wre believe the day is near at hand when the people peo-ple of the West will realize the value of protection for all their products as sharply as they now realize its value to wool and lead. It would require too much space to enumerate every article in the tariff aw of 1800 which the people of Utah ! vill deal with. Take, for instance, the )Ossibilities of iron and steel, glass and arthenware, , woolen and linen in- ustries. No man can name a valid ason wby these should not be ex- pensively developed where we have all |