Show I i A SHA SHAMEFUL El UL l By L. L A. A Holl Hollenbeck In a recent editorial iii fir ll the SaltI Salt I Lake Tribune entitled A I ful t l Picture the editor sa says ays s that a hundred dred years ago American ships ran about 90 per cent cant of r oas cars n foreign trade and ana that Hint now j W with tremendous advances in ht tte the worlds world shipping Americas America's foreign foi sh shipping g trade has fallen falln down n to 3 3 per pr cent tent of oE the i business s. s with a prospect n of a still f roa a l fall A hundred years sago ago our sailing vessels vessels ves ves- sels roamed the seas and with great groat d development In hl foreign tra trade c since they the our merchant ne has been swept from th the seas Then 11 the Tribune editor in bemoaning the ne situation situation situation sit sit- says sars that That Is a acorn com commentary impossible to explain Well the Tribune no editor is hard hardup up Any school boy is a student stu stu- student dent can readily explain and correctly correctly cor cor- correctly too When our merchant ma ma- rine rifle was prospering there was a sue effort to force a high tariff to o protect what was called our infant infant in in- infant fant industries There was a great issue at that time and on the side of ot the thc shipping Interests flie he presidential campaign slogan was Free Trade and Sailors Sailors' Rights Rights' That meant only a small all tariff for revenue and ire if the free free traders had won out this country would have have- captured the tIle worlds world's trade but the high tariff theory won out and it crushed the shipping busl business g of or the United States Slates The trouble why these big bigI dailies dallies are not telling the people I what Is the cause of tho the destruction I of ou our great shipping business is because because the papers are usually owned by br we wealthy people who vho nave a finger J In tine the trusts and high protected I goods and the editors are arc prohibit- prohibit i 1 od from r n saying what h the they th think nl I i f an anti and what the they know And these I same same ame high bight taJ tariffs rr have been aJ and tu tua to toa a a considerable extent are now cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting a big figure in holding beck the prosperity of the farmers l by i compelling l g thom to u nigh high priced pricell machinery and I fl g O the tilo markets The farmers now in spite of or this his trouble Iby collective bargaining bargaining bargain bargain- h ing which Is a trust of their own ro re being heing able to get higher prices But nut they cannot thank the high tariff fo for this but thoy they a are arc o forcing the prices of oC fa farm 1 produce uj up in Iu spite or of o and and nd at at war v with l ih th-j th high w I tari tariff IT The Tho bemoaning of cf the time Tribune editor about ou our s shipping ng swept from the lime seas almost makes o one e laugh for fOl these editors of the ho big papers dare not say thoy think They are not to o bd b bo blamed d. however but bur sympathized with with with-be be I cause their jobs depend on st staying slaying with time the big big employers whose V. s papers papers pa pa- pers 1015 aro are controlled 1 by th the bos bosses d that dut are arc lining their pockets fr from m J limo tho American public that are paying aYing these robber tariff prices |