Show BENEFITS tf protection democrats shout that the reason why a protective tariff should ba done away with is because it makes the manufacturers rich and they cannot refute the statement that it fivos our workmen better wages these two conditions of american life conditions that are found else under the sun are strongest arguments in favor of a protective tariff permit us to present some truthful figures that may to make our proposition more clear the united states produces annually manufactured goods to theamon nt of to get this manufactured there is paid in wages to the laborers while to the same number of workmen in england and that country pays better wages than any other except the united states are paid but for the manufacture of the same amount of goods hence abo excess of wages in favor of american workmen reach catho high sum of now compare tho amount of tariff of the country amounting to something like and ask yourself if the laboring class can stand this small tax admitting the democrats are right in calling it a tax to uphold their high standard of wages why kind reader the laboring if called on to pay this tax themselves would still have a balance in their favor cf better wages than the working men of england england is too favorable a country to show the real advantage of our workmen in wages as compared with the european laborers generally permit us to briefly make a comparison with germany amount of manufactures pid our workmen to german workmen excess 0 in amer total tariff revenue balta oar laborers credit if then the laborers are benefited to this extent by protective tariff and fran traders will confess that our factories are greatly benefited why they cannot get around the argument that the prosperity of tho country has been and is due to our glorious of protective tariff it furnished fur nishen employment at high wages makes home markets for the produce of the fanner and frees the country from the iron grasp of foreign monopolies it makes america the prosperous independent country that it is growing to be and england or no other country will be able ere long to dictate to us in financial affairs as has been done in the past suppose that democrats can point to a few single camps where the tariff has tended to enrich the at the expense of the public suppose there are a few cases of unjust dis crimination should the whole system of condemned we hope not the ENQUIRER thinks the people of utah will take that broad view of the question that pa citizens elsewhere in our grand take of it II 11 there are minor evils they can be remedied but they can never be accepted as proof why tariff is not a good thing republicans furthermore are as willing to correct the evil as democrats and we believe even more BO |