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Show courage the growth of industries which we are capable of building up in this country. '. This protection sends the thrill of life into every artery of our industrial system. sys-tem. It keeps" the foreign manufacturer manufac-turer and his cheap labor out of our ports, or compels him to pay tribute in the form of tariff duties. It results in competition and inventions that lowers the price of goods to consumers. This has been the practical result of the McKinley law oa wages and prices, and the people of ambitious Utah, who believe we should have here a wonderful wonder-ful industrial commonwealth, will tell the people of the United States in November, No-vember, that they are for protection. That is the reason Joseph L. Rawlins Raw-lins cannot go to congress. If he lived in England he could possibly get to parliament on his free trade platform, and we cheerfully concede ' that he would be an ornament to that body. REPLYING TO MR. RAWLINS. Joseph L. Rawlins, tho able and earnest champion of free trade, commented com-mented in his speech last Saturday night on the position of The Times in regard to the tariff. lie thought it was a very contradictory thing for a newspaper news-paper to say that while the McKinlet bill did advance the wages of working-men, working-men, it did not increase the cost of manufactured goods to consumers, but actually lowered prices. This may seem odd to Mr. Rawlins and other well-meaning, but mistaken people. Nevertheless, it ia an incontrovertible incon-trovertible fact. Anybody carj ascertain ascer-tain that it is such by keeping clear of 'statistics and political economy, and investigating plain every day facta in the stores of Salt Lake and the industrial indus-trial centers' of the United States. Take, for instance, the matter of cotton cot-ton goods. If you go to the proprietor of aDy large store in this city he will tell you that he is buying and selling these goods cheaper today than he was before the passage of the McKinlet bill. You will find that this is the way the consumer is affected on nearly every class of goods outside of specialties. special-ties. How is the workingman affected? If you go to Fall River, Mass., one of the greatest centers of cotton manufacture in this country, the operatives will tell you that on the 13th day of last July the Cotton Manufacturers association, without solicitation, voted to pay all day help employed in the mills the same wages for fifty-eight hours' work formerly paid for sixty-eight hours' work; that operatives employed on piece work were advanced 31 per cent; that those weaving print cloths were also advanced. What is the use of statistics, political economy or campaign oratory? It is & condition that confronts our friend Rawlins, not a theory. It is impossible impossi-ble to deny or explain away these hard facts that the humblest citizen of this territory can verify for himself. The fact is that a tariff is necessarv, first to protect the workingman against the competition of laborers in other countries, who are willing to live poorer and dresi poorer; and, second, to en- |