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Show on a community like Utah, with reference refer-ence to its present and its future. Your next door neighbor, or at least your acquaintance around the corner, . came away from England to find a better bet-ter tome under this broad sky of ours. Ask him about the condition of the working man in England. Then compare com-pare what he knows about that country coun-try with what you know about this country. As to the workings of the McKin-ley McKin-ley bill, don't believe the Herald when it says that law taxed you 120 per cent on woolen stockings and 285 per cent on cotton linings. Just go into the nearest big store and inquire for yourself. your-self. Go at this thing in a practical way, and don't let loud-mouthed orators, ora-tors, or long-eared college professors deceive you with their nonsense There are only two items in the Herald's Her-ald's list which we have not aualyzed and demolished. These are coliins and tombstones. The Republicans are not interested in that kind of a paraphernalia, para-phernalia, but they will guarantee to furnish the Utah Democracy with a beautiful coffin and a becoming tombstone. tomb-stone. If the prices of these articles have really been increased by the Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley law, the Republicans will bear the additional burden with complacency compla-cency as a courtesy to their misguided friends. ' V 1 1 ' - A TARIFF LESSON PARALYZED. Our esteemed but somewhat tiresome contemporary, the Democratic organ, has been amusing the public with a series se-ries of articles which it is pleased to call . "tariff lessons." Last "Sunday," with the air of one who is saving his country from dire disaster, the Herald presented the following lucid statement of what the Democrats believe about the tariff : To Democrats, then, the tariff i3 a tax levied upon imports, paid, in the first place, by the wholesal". importing merchant to the government collector at the port of entry; the wholesale merchant adds tho tariff tax to the original price- and collects it from the retail merchants to whom he sells, who in turn collect it from their customers who are the consumers of the goods the tax be- ing concealed in the price of the articles 6oUl. Thus the consumer ultimately pays the tariff tax, with something added by the merchants in the n ay of interest for advanc-! advanc-! ing the money to pay the tax when the goods were landed. This is tolerably clear for a Democratic Demo-cratic editorial. Now for its application. applica-tion. The Herald presents the following follow-ing list of articles and tells the working man that his taxes on them have been increased as rauen as tne amy nas Deen advanced. We invite working men to scrutinize the list carefully : Black alpaca advanced 06 per cent. Cotton laces advanced 50 ppr cnt. Uannel shirts taxed 100 per tent. Wool hat trut protected 11 J per cent. Catgut free, acorns fre, dragoon's blood free, turtle!" free, labor on free list. Collin trust protected 43 p -r cent. Tombstone trust protected r.D per tent. Common woolen goods tasel 111 per cent. Jlas tumblers taxed 10 per cent. Woolen stockings t:ix'-'d 1-J pr cent. Common looking glasses ta.tfd 180 per cent. Window glat-s trust protoc ed 10 per cent. Cutlery trurt protected IIS per cent. One hundred trusts, average protection CO per cent. Sealskins e irnues reduced 33 per cent. ' BrcadclotU advanced 20 pf r cent. I'Jne" easslmere advanced 5 per cent. Silk velvet no advance. Silk linina no advance. 51ack siik no advance. I Silk laces advance ! 0 per cent. Diamonds, uncut, free. Snails free . I Imitntion seal sacques advanced 10 per cent. Wooler.s advanced 40 per cent. Coon corduroy advanced 114 ppr cent. Cotton velvet advanced 100 per cent. Cotton liniugs advanced 2So per cent. Now, we have the Democratio organ where wo want it. It has explained just where and how the tariff is a tax. It has also been accommodating enough to present a list to show the workingman just how much he is "taxed" on certain articles as the result re-sult of the McKinley law. It is true that duties wore advanced on these articles, ar-ticles, as the Herald says. If the Democratic Dem-ocratic theory is correct it necessarily follows that tho price of these articles in Salt Lake stores has been increased in the past two years just as much as the duty has been advanced. The Times has interviewed several of the moat prominent merchants of this city and it rinds tho following state of facts: Black alpaca sold for 65 cents per yard two years ago; it sells today for 42i cents. Cotton valencene lace sells for the same price as two years ago. Linen torchon lace was 10 cents per yard two years ago, and now sells for from 5 to 7 cents per yard. Cotton oriental laces are cheaper by 10 to lo per cent than two years ago. Flanuel s-hirts are about the same price as two years ago, but are far superior su-perior in quality, and American manufacture manu-facture has been enormously increased. You can buy a better flannel shirt today to-day for $ 1 than ever before. Wool hats are 10 per cent cheaper than two years ago, except in the case of high-priced grades, which are the same as formerly. Cotton woolen goods are cheaper from 5 to 10 per cent. Woolen stockings are 10 per cent cheaper than two years ago. Cashmere hose were formerly all imported. im-ported. Today they are very largely of American manufacture and 6ell for cents agaiast 65 cents two years ago. Plate glass is 10 per cent cheaper than it was two years ago. and common com-mon window glas3 5 to 7 per cent cheaper. Cutlery averages 10 to 15 per cent lower than two years ago and, thank God, it is made on American soil and beats the world in quality. Broadcloth sold for 81.65 per yard two years ago and sells today for $1.50. Fine cassimere sells for about the same price. Silk velvet, in grades up to $2.00, is 5 to 10 cents cheaper than two years ago. First-class linen towels that sold for $1.00 two years ago are now 75 cents, a reduction of 25 per cent. Silk linings are from 10 to 15 per cent cheaper than two years ago. Silk laces are still all imported. Cotton velvet is 5 to 15 cents a yard cheaper and the quality much improved. im-proved. Cotton linings are about the same. Mow, what becomes of the "tariff lesson ?" It is dissolved into thin air. It is shot to pieces by these hard facts from the stores of Salt Lake. Tree trade and "tariff reform" are beautiful theories, but protection to American industries is a magnificent fact. Its beneGcent results in the upbuilding up-building of our industrial system and the protection of our workmen are no more to be denied than the morning sun. Its benefits are not for a class; they are diffused like the sunlight and fall impartially upon all elements among our people. Any bright man can use his tongue or pen. and '-make the worse appear the better part" on this as on all other subjects. But there is no need of studying study-ing political economy, or going into fine spun theories, to learn the practical prac-tical effect of protection and free trade |