Salt Lake Times | 1892-09-15 | Page 4 | A Vivid Instance

A VIVID INSTANCE. - When protection is brought right down to your doors it is very easy to tee that it is the best thing for your community. Salt Lake is just now having & vivid instance of this kind, and nine-tenths of the people, without regard to politics, freely concede that the policy that builds np home Industrie's Indus-trie's is the policy that they favor. The question that has risen here is whether the streets of Salt Lake shall be paved with asphalt mined by , cheap labor in the island of Trinidad, or with asphalt mined by well-paid American labor in the mountains of Utah. Many men who favor free trade as an abstract proposition enthusiastically declared themselves opposed to the monstrous idea of repudiating a Utah product, denying the existence of im-. portant Utah resources, and patronizing patroniz-ing foreign material and alien corpora- tinn- The same principle is involved in this matter as in the question of protection protec-tion and free trade. It is the question cf building up local labor and home industry and of protecting our own interest in-terest against outside competition. Even the free trade organ lacked the nerve to stand up for free- trade principles princi-ples in this instance, and gave a feeble, half-apologetic support to the cause of home industry. The benefits of protection are visible o the most near-sighted at close range.