Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-14 | Page 10 | Mr. Carnegie and the Tariff

MR CARNEGIE AND THE TARIFF Mr Ir Carnegie continues to write on thc the subject of the tariff lie lio comman commands s a great deal of attention because be cause he lie is rich but his ideas on the tariff aro are provincial provincial provincial pro pro- after all For instance lIe he says Nothing should be protected unless the pro product can ultimately ultimate ultimate- ly be sold here hero as as' as cheaply as the foreign article That is true so far as the tho manufactured product I is concerned but that would have havo no when applied to a thousand industries in America It would have no application for instance to lead mining because outside of the mere matter of mining lead there is a carrying on Oll of a large business in inmany inmany inmany many directions in supplying lead miners and in worthy men reasonable wages for work Of course lead is not looked upon as a n manufactured manufactured product but it is all thc that is pig lead leadis is a mam manufactured product and the taking of the gangue from the lead in a a. ton of ore is as much a al l manufacturing performance as it is to take the lead after it is in the form of pigs and converting it into the tho various uses for which lead i is applied like whits lead sheet lead red lead and all the other forms of manufactured lead The rhe steel trust Mr r. r Carnegie says can get pet along without the tariff but we will suppose Mr 11 Carnegie ie was back to 21 J years of or age and was starting a lit little tIc plant of his own Could he lie make it pay without a tariff 1 If he lie could do it now then he could have haye done doneit it twenty five or thirty years before and aud it was a shame to pay him tho the tariff He no is a canny old Scot but we wo suspect he lie is like a good many others he ho has hns his own selfish views just justas as much as he ho had when he was selling selling- blowhole armor armor armor ar ar- ar- ar mor to the government and what he lie says on the tariff or an any other question should be considered re on its merits only and his likes an and dislikes should be left of eto out out-of i i the cal i. i i. i ij I