Salt Lake Times | 1892-09-07 | Page 2 | It Explains

IT EXPLAINS. Tiie Times recently inquired if the Ilorald had been converted to Republicanism Republi-canism by its study of the issue of home industry involved in the paving contract. con-tract. Our contemporary hastens to explain that it is still the friend of foreign interests inter-ests against American, and we are glad to give its explanation the benelit of a respectable circulation. It says that in tha matter of asphalt St would prefer to see a Colorado product pro-duct used on the streets of Salt Lake if it could be bought for less money. Our contemporary does this in order to be consistent. It favors free trade because the products of European factories, manufactured by half-starved laborers, can be sold cheaper than American goods, manufactured by workmen whose wages are protected by the tariff. The fame logic, of course, leads the Herald to favor the cheapest asphalt that can be bought. It has no more interest in-terest in Utah than in Colorado, and no tnore interest in America than in Guinea. How do you like it, merchants, manufacturers man-ufacturers and workingmen of Utah? The Herald is doing good work for v the Republican party by showing the -6 blighting tendencies of Democracy.