| Show plank bank free trader the delegates to t 0 the tha chicago convention came bade back with the simple story that they had bad secured a plank in the platform that would admit of a protective I 1 tariff on western products there is no such a clause that we can find unless it ii be the one which says that a tariff levied for revenue shall not be sectional but we would donld like to ask our democratic frienda what hopes republicans can have foi for a protective tariff or a bounty with a man like mr bryan pream 1 dent his congressional record shows him to be a radical tree free trader we could fill columns on that score it if it were necessary but a few extracts will tell nib hib feelings bat I 1 believe do as I 1 say and I 1 am r ready eady to stand by it anywhere that a protect protective iva tariff levied not to rai raise serey se revenue but bat to td P protect protect some soffie particular in bastry is wrong in principle and vicious in practice what I 1 denounce is ia a pro protective t tariff ariff levied purely and solely for the purpose of protection it is IB false economy and atle most vicious political principle princ ipie that has ever cursed curse d this con country itzy 11 I 1 it la is as easy to justify a bounty as a plo itle impossible to fl the difference between a protective tariff and a bounty la is simply a dif arence a of form in the one case it is open and visible i and nd in the other it is hidden there is ia a difference e between and it protective tariff that the bible describes when it speaks of the Dast destruction ruction that wast eth ech at noon noonday day and the Deef fience that walseth in darkness it is the difference between the man who meets meeta you upon the highway knocks you down and takes what you have and the man who steals latr i in your house iu in the night while you are asleep and robs you of your treasures and if I 1 had bad to make inake choice between the two I 1 should consider ane highway robber the more honorable because be does what he does openly and besore the world 11 mr bryan has called a protective tariff every vile thing which his ver versatile satie tongue could utter and a bounty has been classed along side of a protective tariff as being equally pernicious from the earliest history t of the church from the time the prophet joseph timith smith said that the highest point in government after I 1 the thai people I 1 were i e secure and their rights pio properly i respected was a judi clous tariff to protect the whole of the country the mormon doeple have been for fostering home industries by a protective tariff or by bounty throughout the whole history of the people in utah runs that policy of government bounties have been offered repeatedly to start needed in du atries and some of the leading ones today among them our beneal cent sugar works have been started by bounty and the people of utah will therefore be slow to vote for a man who calls their heir cherished political principles midnight thieving and highway robbery mr bryan cannot get the vote of utah people |
