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Show . THE SALT LAKE TIMES: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1892. v ,.'....'r ' 3, given to all men a better average of tbe comforts of life and mads us peerless in the quality of oar civilization, that this free-trad- e theorist, this doctrinaire of the school-room, is ''ashamed of his The countrymen." people ot Utah do not share his sense of shame. They share with the vast majority of Americans in pride of thf country's achieve-ments, and especially In prick of the robust manhood that has upbuilt grea states within the circle of a great nationality. All this, we believe, they will show by their votes in November. William E. Smtth, Editor of Ths Time& ties of 1883. Upon this showing tbe wool-growe- rs asked "and received the increased protection provided in the McKinley bill. OCR AUSTRALIAN COMPETITORS. The great competitor of tbe American wool-grow- er is the Australian. He is already a seller in our markets. He would crush the American grower out of existence if there were no duty on wool. While the McKinley bill was being framed the committee on ways and means listened to a number of witnesses who testified as to the relative cost of nroducing wool in Australia and in the West. It is notorious that we cannot yet compete in price with Australian wool. This fact is due in part to the geography of Australia, which is ex-tremely favorable to sheep culture. It Is due in part to the marked difference in wages, and it is largely due to the cheap rates of ocean transportation. WHAT IT COSTS IN AUSTRALIA. An interesting witness on the question Of what it costs to raise sheep in Australia was Mr. E. N. Bissell of Shoreham, Vermont. He has visited the island continent and en-joyed exceptional advantages of getting to the bottom of the business. He testified, in part, as follows! Here is a table showing our importations. Note the steady decline of percentage of importation to total consumption under protection: Importations. Txar. Per-Yai- ne centage Value. per of total capita. consump-tion. 1820 $7,238,964 $0.75 62 1S30 8,J0.0ti2 . 75 3b 1810 ia.M6,7T2 .S4 40 1K50 13,0(15,852 . 65 23 18,0 81,383,37 1.16 8 1S70 S3,Oiti,:21 .54 15 1S$0 J 13 The statistics of 1S90, when available, will be 6tiil more conclusive on these points. And the statistics of the period through which we are now passing the great era jf the McKinley law will surpass them all. IV. The McKinley Law and Consumers. Paul's most pitiable outburst of rage was occasioned by the suggestion that he had demonstrated that the tariff did not increase A Review of " Pericles " Scurrilous Attack on the Republican Position. PROTECTION FOR WOOL GROWERS. Utah Men Cannot Compete With Australia on Equal Terms Prices at Home and Abroad How the McKinley Law Affects Consumers. My personal observations were made in 1883; my last interview was with Mr.SamnelMcCanghey of Coocongr, Urana, New South Wales, who vis-ited Vermont in 1887 and 1888, and who made his headquarters at my home when purchaeing me-rino sheep to ship to Australia. His home farm is located 400 miles from Sidney, lie owns 1,200,000 sheep, which graze on 8,5O0,0C0 acres of land; 2,0J0,0oo acres he owns, and 1,600,000 he rents of the government at 2 cents per acre, the lease running in some inetances thirty-fiv- e years, and all permanent improvements made by him on this ) anted land are paid for by the govern-- ment. lie estimate that on an average it takes three acres of land to keep a sheep one year; and as they have no frost or snow durine the year they require no hay or grain, and hi farm being enclosed in paddocks or fields containing 1001) to 2j(X acres, he requires no shepherd t herd his flocks. Mr. McCanghey has at different times in the years past hired others to keep hcep for him, aud paying 9 cents a head for one year's keeping; and at this price he claims that the person keep-ing the sheep clears 8 cents a head, as he rents the land of the government at i cents per acre, and it takes only three acres to keep a sheep a year. Mr. JicCanghey'a fheep shear on an average 5 cents per head, and it cots a trifle leas than 2 cants per pound to ?row wool in New South Wales when you hire them kept, or a trifle over 1 cent when kept on le.ited land. The cost of transporting wool from Ooonong to Sydney by rail la one-ha- ll cent per pound, u'rore Sydney to New York or Boston by selling vessels the freight is 1 cent per pound, and by steamer from Sydney to San Fran-cisco, and thence by rail to our Atlantic seaports, coets a cents per pound, makins the cost of grow-ing and tr;inportin? wool a trifle less than 5 cents per ponnd. Ot cou-s- e this does not cover the original cost of the suet p, shearing or baling the wool, which will n jt vary much from what it would cost here. WHAT IT C06T3 IX MONTANA. Following Mr. Bissell, Congressman T. H. Carter te&tified as follows about the cost of producing wool in Montana: I have some figures upon the expenses annnally under the conditions there existing of a single Cock of two thousand head of sheep, not tak:i who has any wool for sale. True, the Utah wool is sold in the grease, but it is the value of that wool when scoured that fixes the price for the wool in Utah. You cannot make an absolutely accurate comparison be-tween any two lots of wool in the grease. It all depends on the shrinkage. But when two lots have been scoured you know how much wool you have and you know what price It will bring in the markets of Boston and of London. You cannot compare the value of two car loads of ore until they have gone through the smelter. Then you can tell how much gold or silver you have got, and you can tell what they are worth in the market. The cases are precisely parallel, and everybody who knows anything at all about wool knows and recognizes the fact. There is absolutely no basis for the com-parison of prices except on scoured wool, unless you can accurately estimate the shrinkage on the lots you are comparing, and shrinkage has reference only to the amount of wool there will be left after scour-ing. Is this not a fair statement? Does any-body practically connected with the wool businees deny it? PRICES FOR IWESTI-THKE- S TEARS. We preseut herewith a table showing the orices of two trades of American and Aus-- I. The Mattel of Truth-Tellin- g. , The question of free wool or protected wool Is of infinite moment to Utah. It af-fects the prosperity of all our people, for , the wool business stands second among our industries and its benefits are diffused until they touch, in some degree, every person !n the territory. In the presence of a question like this, the fate of which is largely involved in the out-come of the present campaign, It seems very trivial to waste a word or a moment in replying to mere blackguardism. But good faith counts for something in a political campaign. The charge thatTHB Times is "a Ifar," "a Republican Ananias," "an ass," nnd other unsavory things, cannot go unanswered without injury to the great cause which The Timkb represents. At the outset, therefore, we devote a little space to this contemptible accusation and to tho man who descends to the level of the street brawler to And what he considers effective mesns of answering a political opponent on a great public question. WIIAT "rBRld.ES" SAID. The first charge of lying is based on the iact that Tee Times remarked parenthetic-lil- y (not in its formal reply to e first arti- - the cost of wool end its products to consum-ers- . The free trader says the tariff is a tax and that the consumer pays It. On this ground the Democratic party scared the country into giving H a house of representation two years ago. In order to get down to the bottom facta about this The Times addressed letters to several very prominent merchants of this city and asked them whether the consumer today pays more or less for woolen goods of American manufacture than he paid before the McKinley bill became a law two years ago. Here is WHAT THE COHS BROTEER3 SAT: To the Editor of The Times: We acknowl-edge receipt of your communication of een date, and as the task you set before us is a very easy one we comply at one. You ask us to inform you "whethsr the prices at our store for various woolen goods of Ameri-can manufacture are higher or lower than the prices of the same goods were two years ago to-day." Mr. Editor, it seems strange to us that you find it necessary to place us In tue witness box, since the facts art as clear to every man, woman and child throughout this territory as the sun at mer-idian today. But we are in the witness-box- , and make answer that not a sinsle article of woolen textiles of American manufacture is higher today than it was two years as;o. You ask us to "quote actual prices on several clashes of goods," and we mention at random: Atlantic J cashmere is retailed at 60 cents a yard: it never was cheaper. Fifty and fiftv two inch all wool ladies' cloths retailed at 50 and tiO cents u yard; this useful fab-ric never was as cheap. As?abet ladies' cloths, by reason of the stand-ard excellence of the material, costs and retails for the same price as two years azo, but it is not a fraction higher. The same may be said of the celebrate 1 Ba:iardvale white flannels, but we feell todav a h white flannel at 50 cents a yard, which would have found ready sale two years ago at K5 cents. Thirty-six-inc- h wool dres goods at 35 and 50 cents a yard are fully as good as what was sold two years ago at 50 and 65 cents. Ladies' wool under garments at $1.00 are exactly the same numbers as we retailed two years ago at $1.25. This applies to all grades of American made underwear of every description. A woolen stocking? for 50 cents today is a much better quali-ty than the lame article was two years ago. Now, Mr. Editor, if we have failed to convince vour liemocratic opponent, aud his Democratic jury, we are ready to file certifled documentary evidence in the shape of invoices from weli-knjw- n manufacturers' selling agents. Yours respectfully, CoHN- - BllOTIIERS. WALKER BROTHERS & TYLER. into consideration at all the value ot the time ot the floik owner. Herder's w aires, at gas per month, $420; his board, at an average cost of $15 per month, would be $180; 10 tons of hay put up, at an average cost of per ton, $500; shearing 2,iA)0 head of sheep, at aa average cost of seven cent per head, would be $140; the taxes, which average about twenty mills in that country, on the valuation of 1.50 per head, which is the average in reference to sheep, would make the taxes interest on $ti,00U (the value of 2,000 sheep in that market), would be $6J0 per annum; repairs and use of fcheds would be" at least $150 per annum ; maketing the wool would be at least $60. In ad-dition there are various incidental expenses con-nected with the prosecution of that clas of enter-prise too numerous to give in detail, but which still in the aggregate make a considerable sum annually. trasian wool for a period of twenty-thre- e years from 186S to 1S91. These are not campaign statistics. TLey are not taken from works on political economy. They are furnished by Justice, Bateman & Co., plain, every-da- v wool brokers of 122 South Front street, Philadelphia. Tne Utah product comes nuder the head of "American scoured medium:" s i ' iFI I IT S: 1 . : 51a! 1 i ' g . g O So S : 22 : r. 2 s m s ij a : S.-- i' ? 2 : .2- - 35- - C 3 C jg , g a 1868 43 21 Vt 71VJ 85 lt?69 50 21 83Vi 36V4 46 3J3-- 5 T6Ji 345, 1871 46 27 7B 45 1372 72 314--5 8S 53 1873 68 2S3-- 5 1.13V4 479 1S74 - 54 24 4-- 6 90 41 1875 5 25 934 il 187a.... 52 23 4--5 E6'4 3i 1877 43 23 8-- 5 71; 39 1873 45 22 3--5 75 1 87 1879 45 21 58 35 . 18t0..... 55 222--5 91V4 39 181 49 20 2--5 81 '4 34 182 4ti 18 8--5 76i 31 1833 43 15 2 5 71V. 88 1?1 40 161-- 5 eO'i 27 18-- 83 17 2--5 55 29 18-- 36 18 3--6 60 31 1887 as 19 5 b3'i i&H 1888 86 18 3--5 58 31 1889 38 19 4-- 5 63-- S3 1890 87 20 5 6U4 3A 1891 37 20 2--5 611, 34 Mr. H. A. Fyler responded in person to a letter from Thb Times and made tbe follow. in statements about the effect of tbe Mc- Kinley bill on the prices of woolen goods to the consumer and the development of Amer-ican manufactures: "Woolen goods of American make are better in quality, more in quantity and cheaper in price today than they were two years ago today. "Take cheap lace curtains, for instance. Two years airo the women of Utah, were fenerally buying a foreign-mad- e curtain, buy a better curtain for fire per cent less than they formerly paid. The cur-tain they now buy is made on American soil, by American, labor and of American wool. "The first effect of the McKinley law was to increase the price of these curtains 10 per cent, though the retail price to the con-sumer was not increased, at least not in my store. But now, as a result of the forced of large English establishments to this country and the development of this business by Americans, the price is reduced while the quality is Improved. ie of that he had demonstrated j that protection had not increased the price ) of wool to consumers, and had therefore proven the truth of the Republican theory that the taritl is not a tax. As he had presented statistics to show that the price of wool averaged 4S cents per pound under twenty years of low tariff, and 42 cents under twenty years of high tariff, did not The Times tell the truth in asserting that he had demonstrated that "the taritl is not a tax and does not add to the cost of pro-tavte- d articles ?" Of course it did, and it is the fact that he had given the free trade case away at a vital point that made it necessary for him to answer facts with filth and argu-ments with abuse. Was there any "lie" there on the part of The Times ? what the "herald" said. The second charge of a lie is based on our assertion that the llerald had "triumphantly demonstrated that the McKinley bill had re-duced the cost of the necessities of life and thereby disappointed its authors." We referred to a leading editorial in the Herald of September 4, entitled "Getting Light," which claimed that the McKinley bill was intended to increase prices, but had produced the contrary effect. We quote: Whether it is joy or dtaeppointment which agi-tates the hretsts of our Republican friends now that they have discovered ttiat the Mckinley tariff law turns out to be different in its operations and rcults than they expected, is a little difficult to determine. But sura it is, if one may believe - entue of their preatest political speakers Senator Aldrirh of Rhode island, for instance it produces T.'ult altogether at variance with those it was crested to produce. ilnjor McKinley above all other men ought to Vr.ow tho intent of bl-- i own legislation; and U' srlv tha above makes it plain that the author of what is now known as theMcKinley tariff law ( ill not intend tl'at it should cheapen goods. d, he thought the American people were al-ready suffering from cheapness of goods. Was there any lie there? Isot if we are abie to comprehend the somewhat lugu--brio-editorial efforts of our contemporary. AS TO POLITICAL ECONOMY. "Pericles" charges a third lie to the as-sertion of The Times that he is trying to befuddle plain people with copious extracts from works on political economy. In his Jlfrnld article of September il he, or somebody, apparently quotes two columns from David A. Wells. W ho is Wells? If he economist then Ihe Ijmes A SAMPLE INSTANCE. There you have a brief but lucid statement of the . conditions prevailing In the two countries- - Now for a sample instance, of recent and actual occurrence, which shows the practical effect of competition between Australia and Utah in the production of wool. Last March or April there arrived at Bos-ton five cargoes of Australian grease wool, which was practically Identical with the average product of Utah. The Australian shipper agreed to sell It to Boston brokers for the prevailing price of this class of wool when scoured 60 cents. He paid a duty of 11 cents per pound on that wool in the grease. In scouring the wool shrank 50 per cent, which made the duty paid 23 cents per scoured pound. He paid for transportation, for scouring and for brokerage a total of 6 cents per pound. He paid in all 23 cents per ponnd to get those five cargoes of wool into the American market. He sold the wool for 60 cents, thereby netting 32 cents per scoured pound. At about the same time the oalt Lake house of Rowe, Morris, Summerhays Co. sold a shipment of Utah wool in Boston at the same Quotations are in currency. UNDER FREE TRADE. It is Interesting to estimate what the price of our western wool would be under free trade. Justice, Bateman & Co. have done this with reference to all grades. This is what they say under the head of "Territo-rial:" "Henrietta cloth was at first increased 5 cents a yard by the tariff. It now sells 1 cent less than two years ago, and its manu-facture la this country has grown enor-mously. . "Cloaks are less by 25 per cent than they were three years ago. "Broadcloth now sells for $L50 per yard against f 1.75 two years ago. American pro-duction of it has gained 50 per cent. "Cheap dress goods, made of thoroughly scoured wool, are now 50 cents per yard; formerly 65. Ten times as much is made in this country as formerly. "Carpets were never so cheap. Royal Wiltons are 50 cents a yard less and domestic manufacture has increased 50 per cent. The quality is vastly better aud these fine American carpets are now being laid in the White bouse. They have also been adopted for Pullman cars. "I spent eight weeks in New Tork this summer buying goods. It was common talk among all the buyers that American goods were never so cheap and that American pro-duction had increased enormously. Demo-crats as well as Republicans conceded that the McKinley law had brought tremendous benefits to the country." Here is the consumers' side of the duty on wool and woolen goods. What has become of the Democratic prediction that the coun-try would be "taxed" out of existence by tbe McKinley law? It has been trampled down by events, and the tariff of 1S90 stands as the greatest triumph of American statesman-ship in the field of economics as the crown-- price bO cents. They paid for transporta-tion, scouring and brokerage a total of 5 cents per pound, and thereby netted 55 cents per scoured pound, or 23 cents per pound more than the Australian shipper. Now, does any Utah producer believe that he could make a living if the product of his sheep, when scoured, commanded in Boston not more than 32 cents per pound? Let him subtract from the price he now gets for grease wool the proportion that represents the difference between 55 and 33 cents aboat 42 per cent Isn't it monstrous that any party should appeal for votes in Utah on such a proposi-tion ? III. Does It "Build An Industry Down-wards?" The free trade professor of Logan says the tariff does not build up the wool and woolen industry. He makes the remark-able assertion that "the tariff builds the in-dustry downward from a value of $133,-000,00- 0, in 1867, to a value of only 116,000.-00- 0, in 1892." We do not know where he gets these figures, but we know he is very badly mistaken in his conclusions. The fact that the sheep industry and the woolen manufacture have grown enormously under protection is incontrovertible. It is easily demonstrable. Territorial wools vary widely in condition in the grease. Choice line wools are held on a basis of CO cents scoured, and manufact-urers are free buyers on a basis of 56 cent scoured. Fine meinm is offered at from 55 to 5ti cents scoured, and medium wools at 60 cents scoured. The bulk of the territorial clip is fine medium. Taking average fine medium Montana at 19 centt as a batig, the free trade price in the eastern maricets would be 10 thefree trade price on the ranch in Montana could not be over 7 cents. The testimony of other Eastern wool-house- s, and of all the woolshippers we have been able to consult here, is to tha same ef-fect. Are these facts disputed by anybody familiar with the wool business? W'e do not refer now to professional free traders, whose only connection with wool is to pull it over the people's eyes at election time. USDKB THS TARIFF OF 1883. In the exhaustive hearing before the committee on ways and means at Washing-ton in 1890, William Lawrence of Ohio, rep-resenting the National Wool-Grower- s' con-vention, presented a table showing a com-parison of the scoured value and the value in the grease of competing grades of American and foreign wools on the basis of tbe scoured value In London, July, 1883. The table covers all classes of wool produced in all parts of the United States. We quote only that portion that relates to Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Montana: Is not a political is mistaken. We understand that he be-longs to that class of reformers and that he comes perfectly within the scope of our remark. This ends the charge of deliberate lying. The rest of the article is open to fair de-bate. The Times has told no lies. It has merely embarrassed an anonymous Democrat by telling the truth. "PERICLES" UNCOVERED. Thk Times had a natural curiosity to know what Democrat had crawled into the gutter to find mud with which to assail it. It has discovered the man and is ready to unveil him a service he was ashamed to do for himself. We confess to surprise. We had expected to tlnd a cheap demngogue aud a blackguard, hut did not suppose he belonged to a class usually of superior intelligence and gen-erally gentlemen, even when Democrats. We find that the man who called Tub Tiitbs vile names and skulked behind a nom ?e rlume to conceal his ldontity is Prof. J. H. 1'sul, president of Brigham Young college at Logan. Better things might be expected of him as the teacher aud exemplar of youth. Pre tradeism is a fashionable disease among college professors, but the cheap blackguardism of the street ia not taught In most of tho schools. It seems to us that when a Democrat of such conspicuous pretensions chooses epi-thets and vituperation as ths best weapons be can wield against protection, that tho cause of free wool has been whittled down to a fine point. We took pleas are iu republishing his arti-cle complete yesterday, as good campaign Uteratur for the Republican party. II-H- uw Protection Benefit tbe Wool Grower. Tbe tariff is the transcendent issue in this campaign- - From Maine to California men are studying their own surroundings and trying to find out whether the Republican policy of protection, or the Democratic policy of free trade, is better for the indus-tries that sustain ths peopla and better for the future development of the locality in which they live. Back of every vote that will be cast In November stands the selfish instinct of man the desire to do the thing that will bring the utmost prosperity to him, to his children, to his neighbors, to his town, to his state. Utah has a great, prosperous, expanding wool industry. We have it on good authority that this Industry will bring not far from $3,000,000 into this territory this year. This money goes not alone to the man who owns sheep. It goes into all the arteries of trade. Everybody is benefited by it. Now, can that industry exist without the tariff? ing glory of Republican rule in the United States. ' V. Fnturo of the Utah Wool Industry. The wool industry in Utah is a busluess of grand proportions, hut it has by no means reached the limits of its growth. It is des-tined, under Republican protection, to be an ever-wideni- source of wealth to Utah. Nature has made of this terri-tory a splendid sheep country. Western men have found that two things are essen-tial to the success of tbe sheep business the range and abundant alfalfa. We have both here. Large sections of the territory can never serve any purpose but that of the range. The competition of higher forms of agriculture can never crowd out the sheep, as it did in Kansas, Nebraska and parts of Texas and Colorado. The mountain sides and the plateaus above the reach of irriga-tion should be forever the home of the sheep. The production of alfalfa is easy and profitable. The climate is favorable. All Utah asks, to enable, her to hold her own and forge far to the front in the sheep industry. Is the continued protection of tbe tariff against a kind of competition that her people cannot meet. Take off the duty and you strike down this great and promising industry. Leave the duty as it is and you make its future safe and Its growth to enormous pro-portions sure. VX Ashamed of His Countrymen. Paul says, "I am an American, but am ashamed of my countrymen." This is a remarkable outburst. It is the cxelamation of a Democrat who has followed Democratic-- philosophy to its logical oonclu-- BlrtZ 1KD FALL OF THE SHEEP INDUSTRY. The sheep industry has always risen un-der adequate protection. It has always re-ceded when the tariff has been reduced. This is made plain by the following facts of history, which are beyond dispute: The first effectual tariff law as applied to sheep was the act of 1867. In '.he half cen-tury previous to the passage of that act, from 1810 to 1860, in spite of the enormous expansion of the country in every direction, the number of sheep increased only 100 per cent. In the first seventeen years of protection, 1867 to 1884, the number of sheep increased 130 per cent. The increase of sheep in the latter period was from 22,471,000 to 50,500,000, and the in-crease of the wool clip was from 60,264,000 pounds to 3130,400,000 pounds. If protection did not accomplish this striking result, what did? Ia 1883 the tariff on wool was reduced and a little later came the menace of the Mills free wool bill. Under this reduction and this threat the number of sheep quickly declined from 50,500,000 in 1884 to 42,000,000 in 1890. What produced this result if not tariff re-duction and the menace of a Democratic free wool bill? Since the passage of the McKinley law the industry has steadily increased and, with stable conditions, will certainly continue to do so. Has the tariff "built the industry down, wards" so far as sheep are concerned? Of course not. THE WOOLKK MANUFACTURE. 2 -- 5 s So . 3 9 a? SS 9 Ml a - o 2 s6$" aa o b-- - 2.I.S Si? oill ?a - 5 " 2 0 -- 2 B " . 3 2. v3 i; Wyoming and Idaho fine choice 16 67,48 12 3 Wyoming and Idaho, heavy nne 12 71 41 10H Wyoming and Idaho, to I V4 blood, choice 18 65 51 12 6 Wyoming: and Idaho, me-- I diom heavy 15 70:50 104 45! Wyoming and Idaho, coarse I hi hlood 18 55 40 10M 7H Utah and Nevada, flue j choice... 17 6S.53 10 6 Utah and Nevada, One I heavy (13 738 83 4J4 Utah and Nevada, medium choice 18 65 51 18 0 Utah and Nevada, medium heavy 14 70 46 10 8 Utah and Nevada, coarse, , blood 18 55!40 104 73 Montana, choice, medium.. 224 56 51 15 7Vi Montana, average, medium ao 60:50 13V4 Sy, Jtontana, choice, ne me-dium 18 65 51 1214 6tf Montana, average, fine me-dium 17 70 56 10Si Montana fine, XX choice... 18 66151 13 5 Montana fine, XX heavy.. . iti 7058 U4 4 Uoittit ooiria. U blood.. 19 tft.V.12 in. 7il Does the professor mean to intimate that the manufactnre of woolen geods In this country has been unfayosably affected by the tariff? Perhaps he thinks that branch of the industry has been "uiit downwards." Let us see. The following figures tell the story of the progress of woolen manufacture In the United States. The first table shows Ameri-can production. See how it increased, in total and per capita, after the law of 1867 was enacted: sion. He rails at tbe selfishness of the Amer-ican roter. He sees no difference between tho selfishness of the individual and the en-lightened self-intere- st of a great people, to whose keeping the course of events has more and more entrusted the destiny of the human race. Ashamed of his countrymen for what? Because they refuse to permit their Work-ingm- en to compete on equal terms with the peasant laborers of countries where the sua of freedom falls dimly through the mist of autocratic institutions. Because they insist tiert men deserve bet-ta-r homes, women more culture and leisure, children better schools ad larger oppor. tunities than the men, women and children of other countries enjoy. Beeause they uphold a system which guarantees these advantages to every man who comes from a foreign shore to plant his home on American soil and swear alle-giance to the starry flag. Because for a quarter of a century his countrymen hare stood true to that system without faltering, and bare repulsed the at tacks of its enemies abroad and its insidious foes at home. It is becauee Americans uphold the great policy of protection, which has put us first amosg tbe industrial tuition's of the tarUw Will it be injured by the enactment into law of the free wool bill passed by the Democratic house of tbe present congress? These are things the people of Utah want to know before they rote. Paul claims that the tariff la no benefit to tbe woolgrower and that It does not secure to the American producer a better price than the foreigner gets in free trade England. Let us see. SCOCRED WOOL THK BASIS OF PRICES. Paul says The Times is "a shameless paper," because it takes scoured wool as the basis for a comparison of prices between American and foreign wool. lie demands to khow what this has to do with the price of the Utah product. Nothing to the mind of an Impracticable college professor. Everything to the minds of men who deal in wool and know what they are talking about. - lie wants to know "what American trrow-- r has sooursd wool for tale I" Everybody Domestic Manufactures. Per- - Tiab. Value centaee value. per of total capita. con sump-tion. 1820 $ 4,il3,0 0.46 88 - 1830 1428,166 .88 64 1840 at,66,9t.9 .82 CO 150 43,207,545 1.88 77 I860 5,fi(i,3t4 2.0 68 ' 1870 177,495,89 4.60 S Vm 867,262,1.13 6.84 87 i--z : ; -- - . The above table is interesting. The first column shows the Philadelphia price for American wool in the grease; the second, per cent of shrinkage of the American wool; tbe third, tbe price the American wool brought when scoured; the fourth, tbe price Ameri-can wool in the grease would have brought in the London market; the fifth, the differ-ence between Philadelphia and London prices of American wool in the grease. This was under the-- somewhat reduced du- - You'll ... . Hold Your Breath ! , j - itI i When you see the big inducementvS we are holding out to visitors during Fair and Conference week. The loudest calling is not evidence of good goods and correct prices. Five minutes or so through our store will show you that we stand at the head of t s - ' ! GOOD GOODS and Deafness Cannot Be Cnred by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness caused by an inflamed condition of the mu-cous lining of the eustachian tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken ont and this tube restored to its normal condi-tion, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out ot ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothine but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give fl00 for any ease of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for ciTcular, free. F. J. Chknbt .Ss Co., Toledo, O. Bold by all druggists, 75c. Try an Advertisement in this Column and watch the results. Help or Situations Wanted, three insertions fres. WANTED. son Pressed Brh-- yard. Uarrisville, Utah. YOUNG MAN OF 25, INTELLIGENT AND A respectable, would like to secure place where he could learn good trade or business. References. Address 25. QIRL COMPOSITOR. APPLY AT TIMES. AXTED AT S. W. BALL CO., 24 Hain street, 1 man cook. 2 men waiters. 1 man dishwasher. VI7 ANTED A GENERAL HOUSE tEK-T- f vant; good wages. Apply at No. 2S West Sisth South street. T7ANTED A TA1LUK, CUTTER AND YT tailoress. Empire Manufacturing Co., 74 East t'iret South street. MENTO-GATH-ER K)( SALT" APPLYAT once at room over Union National bank. Inland Crystal Salt compiiny. ANTED POSITION Blf YOUNG MAN ' as bookkeeper or ofiice man; best of refer-ences from former employers. Address F. V. V., 254 Wet 8onth Tempio. SECOND-HAN- CLOTHING. WILL PAY Fine tailoring in all its branches. Dyeing, cleaning and repairing a specialty. Hats cleaned aud retrimmed. Lapin, 02 East Second Sonth street. AN TED COO KS, DINING-ROOM-GIRL- S T I and girls for general housework. Situa-tions for servants. Salt Lake Employment 69 West Fhst South street. AlRS. I. McEwatt. GOOD LIVE AGENTS CAN ilAkK FROM 10 a day. Chicago Tailor-n- g Co.. 24 Bonth Main St. ' RR. LABORERS FOR SPOKANE, WA3H- - wages $2; fare $9. S. L. Employ-men- t Co., 21 West Second South. COEBECT PEIGESi The dollar sign after all is the most significant sign o the times. Some people accumulate wealth by judicious buying. The savings of a life-tim- e, with the accumulations of judicious investments, amount to quite a fortune. We will help you to save money both ways in clothing and furnishings at the beginning by correct prices and in the end by long and faithful service. We have a full line of Men's and Boys Suits that for , quality, style and prices cannot be beat. Now is the time to buy nobby light-weig- ht Overcoats. A large line of Ulsters and winter weight Overcoats now in. Now opening our im-mense stock of Furnishing Goods, Underwear, Hosiery, ? Neckwear, etc. All our Underwear we buy in case lots direct from the manufacturers. Our line of Fall Hats complete. You'll need a Mackintosh this weather. We have a magnificent line, in all qualities and shades, manufactured expressly for us. Gray, M k Wyatt, 15-1- 7 W. 2nd South. FOR SALE. FOR SALE BARGAIN, HOUSE, of MiJn street, for a short time; only $4500- - Apply to 3. It. MAKKS. i?OK SALS A FIHST-CLAS- S SALOON desirable location ; call and examine; also a family grocery store. S. F. SPENCER, ag-gi- 9ti7 Main street. 17OK SALB ONK LOT WITH txMALL 1IOTJ6E it for $550; also two lots on South Firrt West at $550 each. Inquire at 725 South First West of owner. LAMOXDsS, WATCHES, JEWELRY A"D spectacles. Fine watch repairing a specialty. Piompt attention to country orders. 19 E. Third South street. -- 4 U Here?. ISOH BAL2 LAUNDiilfMEN CAN OUT OLD T papers at Tun Tucaa omce at twenty-fiv- e cent per htuadnwi R ErcUANOE, EQUITIES IK SEVFRAL new cottages, close in. What have yoa to trade? W. B. McCortney, bookkeeper at thef Both-we- ll & McConaugby liiaiber yard, 282 S. First West. TO RENT. olTRENTLTRGllil est rooms in the city. . 206 West Sooto Temple. TOR RENT NEATLY flTJEN'ISITET) FRONT JL room with bay window, for one or two gentie-me- n. Inquire 143 West Third South street. COLORADO HOUSE, COKNER THIRD State, opposite Hotel Knutaford. Cheapest furnished and unf aroithed rooms. T CHEAPEST AN"I ilOST PLEASANT furnished rooms in the city at Hotel Windsor, corner First We?t and Third South. PERSONAL. PROF. ANDRE, TEACHES MUSIC,: and fnctri at pupils' homes and at office, 43 Bast Second South. STARLIGHT, THE LITTLE CLAIRVOYANTS medium, will remain ia this city until October 15. Headings (riven daily from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Public test circles Tuesday and Friday evenings at the Metropolitan hotel. LOST. LIBERAL REWARD AND NO QUESTIONS the return of the following; La-dles' diamond ring, four stones, one pearl ring and one guard ring. Apply or address H. R. Bur-nett, Room 80 McHimmint block, 50 West Third South street. TO LOAN. 8 pek'75ent Iuonet rNr scmsTosutt; paper or real estate. 8. F. Spencer, 2U7 Main street E.AUSBBAOH&BRO. THE GRANDEST AND MOST MAGNIFICENT SPECIAL - OCTOBER - SA JJU EVER HELD K OUR IASM0TH ESTABLISHMENT. All our Fall and Winter Purchases, which are the Most Extensive and Finest ever brought to this city, will be placed on sale THIS WEEK. Prices unapproach- - ! able! Values unmatchable! Citizen an4 visitors t Fair and Conference can ' save mone by buying their fall supplies at ? F. ATJEEBAOH & BRO., The Only Strictly One-Pri- ce House in Salt Lake. City. ONEY TO LOAN ON CHATTELS OR COin DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. laterals. Boom 2&, Morlan block. UGBNfi LEWIS, 810 FOUTOFFlCfl BLOCK, loans money on mortgage. 4Ioney here in bank. 8PKk CfcSf ONY tO LOAN" W feciti J. B. Blazer, 47 West Second South street. HAKHI8 4 Main. WILSON, MONET TO LOAN, 2J1 OTffct fO LOAN OlT DIAMONDS, Watches and Jewelry of all kinds at reason-able rates, terms to suit. New York Collateral Bank, 7 East Second South-- H- - W. fnllor. CNG-flM- l LOANS, 7 PER Ca NT LNT1S on improved city property. C. W. Aldrach, 804 and 805 Progress boilding. Mo'SSffrd Loan-S-N iSBt&ved city 7 and 8 per oent. C. W. Aldrach, 801 and 306 Progress building. The latest styles, the best bought s,tock and the only 6tock sold at from 2 j,to 333 Pcr cent below competition. See a few sample prices like the follow ing s 25 pieces 36-i- n. English Cashmere in all the fall shades, at. ........ .250, worth 35c 30 pieces 36-i- plaid and striped, at ,.250, worth 4oc 27 pieces 36-i- n. plaid Cashmere, at 30c, never 6o!d less than 45c 45 pieces 30-i- all wool Novelty Weave at...... 50c, would be cheap fOrc 20 pieces 36-i- all wool Storm Serge, at -- .............. ....50c Cheapest line in the city, come and look at them. 30 pieces 40-i- black all wool Serge, at 60c, never spjd less than 90c 28 pieces all wool black Cashmere for Soc, worth 75c UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY DEPT. Read carefully each item and come early in the morning. You will find all the goods exactly as advertised. Our 50c quality Ladies' Ribbed Vest fqr .f... each' Our $1.50 quality Ladies' gray mixed Jersey suits .. . . 90c per 6uit Our $1.60 quality camel's hair suits for ...$1.00 per suit Our $2.00 quality Misses' Jersey ribbed, all wool Union suit6, for. ..$1.00 per sult Our $1.50 quality Ladies' combination suits, in natural gray, for. ....$1x0 per suit Ladies' cotton hose, in black 5c 10c ii'jC 15c worth 10c 15c 20c 25c Ladies' black seamless wool hose, at '. 20c, 25c; worfh 30c, 40c Misses' black all wool hose, at ..15c, 20c BOYS' CLOTHING. There is a BIG PROFIT for the PURCHASER in Boys' and Children's Winter Clothing this week. rjliventy Years Ago The word Sterilization as applied to food products was unknown. Today The whole modern sehoel of medicine is in-terested ia it.Milk At 95c our leader, Boy 6 Knee Pant Suit, worth .............. ...... $1.50 At $1.00 Boys' Fine !triped Knee Pants Suit, worth .... .j.$i.65 At $1.25 Dark Plaid Knee Pants Suit, worth ... $i.S5 At $175 Dark Wood Brown Knee Pants Suits, worth ."w, v,,... .$3.50 At $1.90 Dark Plaid Knee Pants Suit, worth ...... ...$3.00 At $2.50 Twilled Cassimere Knee Pants Suit, worth M ..na..$foo At $4.00 Double-breaste- Knee Pants Suit, worth ?....b..,$6.oo At $2.50 Navy Blue Jersey All Wool Suit, worth ..$4.50' At $3.00 Fancy Trimmed jersey Knee Pants Suit, worth. ?...,....... v.. ...$5.00 BOYS' KNEE PANTS Will be sold at Special Prices at 15c, 85c, 35c, 50c, etc. At 20c Boys' Outing Flannel Waists, worth. .....,.., ; , . 55c, At 25c Boys' Outing Flannel Waists, dark colors, worth. ..-J- . .,, ,. --.40c' At 35c Boys' Extra lleavy Outing Flannel Waists, worth ... ro'un.' n -5 I PfTl T30ES not allcnv us to enumerate anj more, of the ST rjil I Ij Wonderful Prices at which we, acp sJjfog'qur I new a anc wntef gods. We refer U dux large IlUlJ Advertising Circular whichwilt b&,disri$utel X to every h6uae. . Was then popularly supposed to be pure and healthfuL Bacteria has been found to exist in nearly all dairy milk, either animal (arising from tbe unhealthy condition of the cowl or at-mospheric (from the impurities of the air) so that PURE MILK instead of being a reality, U a Polite FlcSiozz St, Charles Evaporated CrtmSssft milk product tn the world. If s away ahead of eondunsed milk. It's a thousand timet more healthy and wholesome than that produced by the best Jersey herd la Utah. . It's Incomparable as a baby foocL boon t the table and " goea cooking, Yovt grocer a4rujE2is& sell it. " Hygela Waters are superior to any. |