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Show THE ARGUS. mean that the farmer has been robbed all these rears by the tariffT Is that the Senator's argument? Hr. Cannon Yes, sir ; decidedly. Mr. Chandler When did the Senator first think that the American pariff system was a robbery of the farmer? Hr. Cannon Jnst as soon as the Senator Rare sufficient attention to the subject to understand the truth of it. some railroad officials with whom the Tribunes railroad reporter is on more friendly terms. Cannon And the . g denounced. It is smiling and smirking and making eyes at the leaders of Hannas party regardless of the fact that there has been no change of policy on the part of those who won the national election last fall. The Tribune now pretends to be ready to hope for something from the administration that the administration is pledged against ; it is now: ready to denounce labor leaders and strikers, and only last Monday it referred to those of 1892 as a lot of rich men who rode to and from their work in fine carriages dudes who were arrogant and brutal and murdered men who took their places in the mills. But the year 1892 was a year of. strikes and labor riots and business failures. There were wage cuts in 71 iron and steel factories that year ; in 18 woolen and worsted mills ; in 12 clothing factories and in, 100 miscellaneous industries. The reductions ranged from fifteen to forty-fivper cent. There were strikes of tailors, miners, brake-mefiremen and factory hands, and civil wars in Tennessee, Idaho, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illi-- . nois, New York and West Virginia. The militia was out, the torch of arson was spreading terror, the knife of anarchy was dripping and the Tribune was filled day after day with the most stories of riot and insurrection columns and pages of blood and horror. And now it has the effrontery to call the labor troubles and a winning of 1892 .campaign material Shame upon the Tribune card for politicians. for the part that it is playing in order to win the favor of the administration at Washington. . e blood-curdlin- n, g In its issue of June 1st the General Palmer fils represented. Tribune, noting the presence here of General Palmer, president of the Bio Grande Western Bail way, makes the statement that he is endowed with an aversion to newspaper men and that during his many trips to Salt Lake in the last five years he has always been too busy to see the Tribune reporter, and follows this up with another shot: He is less known than any railroad official who comes West. Every one of the statements is untrue. General Palmer possesses no aversion to newspaper men, and the assertion that he has always been too busy to see the Tribune reporter is given the lie by reference to the Tribune files,' which contain numerous interviews with the Generalfin the past five years. As to the last statement, that he is less known than any railroad official who comes West, it is admitted that General Palmer ; is never on dress parade. But he is well known as the man who, in the last fifteen years, has built 566 miles of railroad in Utah, and that too, without any bounties, public or private, being offered him. He is well known as the president of a railroad system that in its equipment and physical conditions and service is not surpassed by any railroad in the West, and he is further easily identified as the chief executive officer of a railroad that in the last seven yearn has not a single death by accident or serious injury to any passenger charged against it a means of identification that is envied but not possessed by . . people sometimes advocate mistaken ideas The Arqds calls attention to the present attitude of Senator Frank J. Cannon as compared with his tariff speeches on the stump. He is one of the few public men who are willing to acknowledge an error of judgment. He now declares that the farmer bears the whole burden of the protective tariff system and announces that but three remedies are possible ; these he gives in the order he prefers them, as follows : First, the restoration of money conditions ; the second remedy, which, as a believer in protection, he would accept rather than hold to and vote for an inequitable bill, would be absolute free trade ; and third, an export bounty, restoring a portion to the farmer for the higher prices on the necessities of life which he is compelled to pay in protected markets. Tariff Bill. That the Tribune seems to be changing front, that it is coquetting with the party in power is generally remarked. Its weakening since Manager Lannan returned from the East is very noticeable. It is evidently trying to supplant Arthur Brown in the affections of the gold-buadministration it so recently opposed and brick-mason- s, In order to show how earnestly 3 sists in his refusal to pay the tax, why, just wait and see what Frank will do to him then. It is enough to make one shudder when he thinks of the awful fate in store for the foreigner who will hold out against all the inducements being offered him. to pay the tariff tax of this country. Beplying to Senator Chandler, who called attention to the former tariff speeches of the gentleman from Utah, Senator Cannon admitted that in the guilelessness of my soul, being a Republican, I went out and advocated the Republican idea of a protective tariff. I never was brought quite so close to responsibility concerning it before as I am Heretofore I have discussed it on the stump, advocating it in general terms ; but as soon as I am confronted with responsibility which obliges me to look more closely into its application to all the people, I am simply discharging my duty when I seek to amend this measure so that it shall be honest to all. In explaining his attitude further Senator Cannon declared that he would always believe in protection which protected, but said he: I am not disposed any longer to advocate a system by which one portion of the population is taxed for the benefit of another portion of the population. Once in a while some irreverent editor of Utah condemns the Little Giant of the Rockies for something done or something undone, some error of omission or commission, forgetting that he is a man of poetic and prophetic destiny. Even the Provo Enquirer, the Senators godfather who christened him the Young Napoleon, not content with now calling him a traitor and renegade because of his financial views, finds fault with his latest tariff scheme by which he is determined to find out if there is any possible way to make the foreigner pay the tax. The Senator has learned many things since he went to Washington. He now regards the old protection theory as a fraud according to his own admissions. He now believes that the tariff is a burden on the home consumer. He has come to the conclusion that the Republican party is an enemy to to the remonetization of silver. He has virtually renounced it as a party of delusions, false promises and broken pledges. Poor Frank He wouldnt take any ones word for it. He had to find out for himself. 1 to-da-y. Replying further to his New England colThe Senator league, Senator Cannon said: ought to know if the agricultural classes of the United States do not thrive in good contentment there is no safety to the republic. There was another nation in its day as mighty as this republic, the greatest upon which the sun then shone, and its people engaged in agriculture sunk lower and lower, until the freeholder who was obliged to borrow money had to give a mortgage not only upon his land but upon his crops, and upon himself and wife and his children, and the unborn child in its mothers womb, in order to satisfy the usurer. When the time came, the Roman eagles were enclouded in the Middle Ages, and unless we do something to arrest this robbery I say it deliberately, Mr. President the robbery of this bill for protective tariff, we, too, will have our bitter lesson. . The Argus has before observed, Senator Gannon is trying every posExport Bounty. sible scheme to induce or compel the foreigner to pay the tax ; Frank used to think it was done that way but. his observations on the As Cannons Atlantic sea board and his confidential chats with tariff advocates have evidently opened his eyes. Now he proposes, as an amendment to the tariff bill, that a duty be placed on goods and products shipped out of the country. If the unaccommodating foreigner refuses to pay the tax on imports the Senator is determined to give him an opportunity to pay it on exports. Who dares say this isnt a brilliant idea worthy of the intellect of Dave Felts candidate for the next presidency? If the foreigner still remains obstinate and per- - But look how the Provo Enquirer, a consistent Republican organ, considers the Young Napo- leons export bounty proposition. It Senator Gannon has done himself no says : credit by his proposed export bounty. It is an impracticable policy and will not receive sanction. Our senior Senator seems to have introduced it simply to impede the tariff bill. Then under its cloak he takes occasion to discredit what he calls the old school of protection. He echoes the old, old refrain of the Democrats, that its burdens fall entirely on the agricultural classes, and to compensate them, they ought to be paid a certain sum for every bushel of wheat exported. Senator Gannon will yet live to see the old school of protection again triumphant in Utah. It was the principle of the pioneers, and they were certainly not weighed down by partisan responsibilities, as Senator Cannon intimates that he has been, but were just as free as he claims now to be to choose the best. anti-tarif- f Senator Continuing, the Enquirer says: Cannon, while seeking for notoriety by his proposed amendment, has simply confirmed the suspicion many have held concerning him, that he could not be depended on to stand by protection when it came to the test. Senator Chandler, it seems, thought it passing strange that Senator Cannon, once a professing protectionist, should now conclude that the system was a robbery. No other conclusion could be formed from his proposed amendment and argument in favor of restoring a portion of the tax to the farmer, that falls upon him through the regular tariff. Mr. Cannon responded that in his guilelessness as a Republican he had accepted the entire protective idea, but now with the responsibility of weighing the merits of every protective proposition, he insisted on equalizing the advantages so that the farmer would receive a share. And then, in conclusion, the great Republican organ of Utah drives its harpoon into the How many times have we Senator like this : not heard Senator Cannon contending in campaigns in Utah that the tariff was not a tax on our people, but on the foreigner. He seems now to have forgotten all those arguments and thinka 0 |