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Show JUDD ON WIRE NAILS. Judge Judd is distributing himself over the territory in the interest of the pure southern Democracy,- of which he is so perfect a type. Ha spoke at Logan the other night, and implored the people to vote the Democratic ticket for the reason that sixty-penny nails, protected by a duty of only one-quarter one-quarter of 1 per cent, sell for from $1 to $1.50 per hundred pounds, while three-penny nails, protected by the higher duty of 3 per cent, sell from $5.50 to $G per hundred pounds. We are told that the judge's "masterly "mas-terly effort closed amidst a storm of applause." ap-plause." We are 6orry to take the wind out of that storm, but it is well that the truth be stated on this burning issue of the price of wire nails. The fact is, that the price quoted by the judge on 6ixty-penny nails is the manufacturer's price at the factory, while the figure on three-penny nails is evidently the retail price in hardware stores. The retail price of sixty-penny nails in Salt Lake City is $3.50 per hundred, hun-dred, and the price of three-penny nails 83 per hundred. It will thus be seen that the judge made a strained effort to quote a very low price in one case and awery high price in the other. The . nail industry in the United States is a striking example of the value of protection. Under the policy of the Republican party the American people have been able to make their own nails, and sustain a large number of workingmen in profitable employment. employ-ment. Even ' if Judge Judd's statements were facts we should hope that Utah would not go Democratic because of the price of three-penny nails. But if anybody was thinking of voting the Democratic ticket on that account we trust they will change their minds now. |