Show it is amusing to hear caen say that abo sad and we may add disgraceful incident of the provo city council awarding a public contract to a chinaman is a republican trick As the councilmen were elected by the peoples party it can be charged to neither republicans nor democrats however democrats advocate just such a principle as the council car ried out they say go where you can get things the cheapest they do not stop to consider that what is seemingly cheaper today to day may be ruinous to the country in after years for example the salt lake times relates an incident in connection with the same question under discus sion which clearly shows it to be a democratic practice to award contracts to foreigners during mr CLEV ELANDS administration the united states army needed a lot of blankets and an advertisement was published inviting bids for furnishing the same the advertisement was published in england as well as in tha united states ahe englishmen were able to underbid the american manufacturers because of the lower rates of wages prevailing there the government does not pay duty on goods imported for itself and the democratic administration to save a paltry fow cents on each blanket actually gaye the order to a foreign firm though wo deplore the action of the city council the incident has tended to show how strongly republican the community really is in thought and sympathy they want no free trade or tree con tract letting to the exclusion of work for our own people and in this they are truly republican many of our citizens may say that they are dem but when it comes to actual experience such as letting or any other cheap foreign labor rob our home laborers ot employment our good people at once protest it is on account of this admirable trait found with the people of the territory that we are bold bough to say that utah is going republican |