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Show and preserves the field for it against all comers. Take down that tariff and foreign wool will compete with us on more than equal terms. Every intellectual wool-grower in the country knows the value of protection and protests whenever when-ever it is proposed to deprive him of it. There are other important advantages advan-tages which the tariff secures to the wool industry and these we will pre-sent, pre-sent, together with the facta and figures to prove them, at the earliest opportunity. In the meantime let the Democrats continue to preach the gospel of free wool to the producers of Utah, and let them bo aesured that they have the blessings of the Republican party in this patriotic work. THEY SPEAK OF WOOL. We like the Herald's pluck. It has at last summoned up courage to defend the poor old Democratic party on one of the many issues that are crushing it to the earth. It answers a four line remark of The Times with a four column communication com-munication from one "Pericles," in which a laborious effort is made to demonstrate that Utah producers are not beneiited by the tariff on wool and would be much better off under free trude. The article quotes so many statistics and treatises on political economy that it requires a review at length to answer it at every point and thoroughly expose its glittering fallacies. The Times will devote adequate space to it in the course of a few day3, and will demonstrate that it is nonsense from beginning to end. In the meantime, there are one or two points that should be called to tho reader's attention at once. The Herald's correspondent demonstrates demon-strates that protection has not increased the price of wool to consumers, just as that newspaper triumphantly demonstrated demon-strated the other day that the McKix-ley McKix-ley bill had reduced the cost of the necessities of life and had thus disappointed disap-pointed Tib authors, who had framed it with the malign intent of increasing the burdens of the people. Thus our contemporary furnishes evidence to sustain the Republican claim that the tariff is not a tax and does not add to the cost of protected articles. Protection secures the American market to American producers, and competition and the law of supply and demand regulate price. The Democrats Demo-crats have disputed this, but their brilliant bril-liant organ in this city gives the lie to their claims, and the Republicans are under obligations for its important services ser-vices in this direction. Of course the Herald will now want to know how the tariff helps Utah producers if it does not increasa the cost to consumers. The Republican tariff keep9 foreign competitors out of the best market in the world the American market-builds market-builds a wool industry in this country i r |