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Show any political party who believes our present industries, and the hundred now ones we want to get, can prosper without that protection which has built up great industries elsewhere. Of course, the Democrats must fight for free trade. That is their platform. That is the campaign they are making; for the votes of the American people. I But here is Utah. Here is all its great material resources on which all the industries which flourish elsewhere can be founded. Here are important lead and wool industries, in-dustries, which bring hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars annually into all our channels of trade. Everybody knows that it is under the protective policy that the wonderful commercial development of the United States has been achieved. Everybody knows that what protection has done for other states it can do for this state of the future. Does anybody seriously favor this experiment ex-periment of free trade in a territory that has everything to gain from the continued prosperity of the industries we have and the acquisition of the great industries we want? Does anybody take stock in these campaign arguments that Democratic newspapers are obliged to put forth ia order to keep in line with the teachings of their party? It seems scarcely possible, pos-sible, and there are certainly no evidences evi-dences of free trade conversions visible to tbe naked eye. DOES ANY ONE BELIEVE THEM? It would be interesting to know whether anybody ia Utah takes the slightest stock ia Democratic free trade arguments with which the press is teeming. It would be interesting to know whether in all Utah thereia any man of : : ' V " |