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Show TARIFF REVISION. The prospect of tarirf revision has no alarm for Western producers. With a massive majority for Ihe Republican Re-publican party in both houses of Con-crcss, Con-crcss, and with a President who would veto any rndlcnl measure, It Is not expected ex-pected that changes In the existing law would be Injurious toward any Interest. In fact, it would bo impossible, under the circumstances, to make a revision which would be less of nn actual protection pro-tection along the 'general lines of industries, in-dustries, than is now enjoyed. All that can be expected from a new law, if one shall be passed and signed (which Is by no means certain), is that It will chnnge certain admitted Inequalities; Ine-qualities; and that it will conform the provisions of the statute to the general condition of the country. In such case the West has nothing to fear. The existing measure has relatively rela-tively high rates on the manufactured goods of the East and relatively low rates nlthough perhaps sufficient on the so-called raw materials of the West. It Is not likely that reductions of moment will be made upon these so-called so-called raw materials, no matter what reductions may be made on manufactured manufac-tured goods. In which, stimulated by the protective tariff, the United States has excelled the world and forced the older manufacturing countries to take second place In the commercial list. It will be a consolation to the producers pro-ducers and politicians of Utah to know that our special industries, such as wool and, lead and other productions, are not menaced by any possible change. In this respect Utah is as safe with the Honorable Joseph Howell, a strict protectionist, as It would have been with the Honorable O. W. Powers, who also avowed himself In the campaign cam-paign a strict protectionist on all that Utah produces. |