Show THE prophet SMITH may have bad n groat regard for THOMAS have and havo been an of JACKSON his oven have adopted a democratic platform but that does not alter the fact that he has written the strongest kind of republican doc trino regardless of the claim which democrats maintained a year ago and aonie oro maintaining today that the mckinley tariff will be tho angulat our foreign trade a lepor just issued by UNCLE SAAS bureau of statistics shows an increase over tho average for tho five preceding similar of in our ox periods the of domestic 30 seven ten months ending april months of this time the angula str tion tariff has been in force daring the same ten months there has been an increase of in conr im ports over the average of the five aim aar preceding periods of which was dae to increased imports eions of goods free ot duty As a democratic ex chang remarks our foreign commerce cabit lond a good deal of such strangulation how the people of utah do love republicanism it is in harmony with their past teachings of the necessity of becoming self sustaining you bet they will be republicans free trade orators to the contrary notwithstanding THE mckinley tariff was just in time to afield the wool growers of the united states from a big decline in the price of foreign wool which would have flooded our markets if the tariff had not been raised the the following table from the melbourne australia argus shows it has fallen about twenty live per cent lower than last year PRICES OF australian WOOL average price ifo of per hale period bales sold s d n 10 0 jan I 1 to feb 11 3 9 total for 11 8 2 acs lo 10 1893 11 19 |