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Show V .i 16 . A Published Every Saturday WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO.f INC. BY. GOODWINS ;A. w. rayboUldV busi ness manager SUBSCRIPTION 'PRICg;; -1 including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 pep year. . $1.50 t .1 . t Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, . payable to 'The' Citizen. Address all communications' to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, af. the postoffice at Sait Lake March 3, 1879. of ?, City, Utah, under the Act Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 WE ARE FOR PROTECTION Mr. Voter, the destiny of the United States, the destiny of oiir own state, Utah, is in your hands and in your keeping. Have, you carefully considered, what your vote next Tuesday means to the nation? Do you want to protect our workingmen, our industries, in fact our very lives, or are you for. a worlds open shop and free trade? Do you want our workers to compete with the cheap labor of foreign countries, or do you believe that we should protect our interests in this state, in this nation, and keep up'oUr present high wages? We are the judges. We can make or break the nation. Your ballot will be the deciding factor. The two great parties the Republican and the Democrat are battling for supremacy. A third party is trying hard to secure recognition by a new order of things which many of us believe impractical. There is one big vital question involved in this election, and that is the tariff. The Republican party is for a tariff. The Democratic party is for free trade. A tariff protects our industries. Free trade opens the door to the European market against which we cannot compete unless the wages of our working men are reduced by about 75 per cent. A dollar a day is a fair wage in Europe; in China a few cents a day is a fair wage. Under free trade you can purchase things much cheaper than you can now, but what you purchase will be foreign manufactured. Free trade will bring prosperity to Europe, but it will bring depression and unemployment in this country. Now let us see what would happen in this state under free trade: First of all we note that under a protective tariff, the Utah mines produced 28 per cent of the nations silver; 18.1 per cent of the lead; 16 per cent of the copper, and 6.35 per cent of the gold, or a total of OS million dollars was taken from Utah mines. The worlds largest opqn cut copper mine is operated at Bingham; the largest silver mines of the United States are located at Park City and Eureka. And we rank first in silver production, second in copper, third in lead and sixth in gold. The worlds largest smelting center is located' in Salt Lake county, and the total value of ore treated in Utah ?in 1923 rwas $92,000,000.: The mining industry furnishes 85 per cent of the freight traffic of the state arid annually employs more than 18,000 men, with an annual payroll of over $30,000,000., Engineers claim . that Utah is the greatest mineralized zone im the world, yl. ; Free trade would shut down the entire works. Cheaper silver from Mexico and South America, cheaper copper from South Ameri-an- d cheaper other metals from all parts of the world,. would either force our mines to close down or the owners of the mines would be compelled to meet the wages paid to the miner in old Mexico or South America, or elsewhere. A protective tariff saves this industry and makes it possible to pay big wages. -- : W. Mont Ferry, manager of the Silver King Coalition, one of the countrys largest silver and lead producing properties, says that , free trade would ruin the mining industry of this state and mining would pass into oblivion. ; i :i Let us look into our agriculture and livestock cattle and sheep. Under free trade what do you think would become of that? We have approximately 2,340,000 head of sheep in this itate. : Do you want free trade on wool and compete against Australias cheap wool, or do you. want protection for your sheep in order that; you can make a living out of your industry? Do you want, tp open the doors for South American cheap cattle or do you.want to protect the standard pre-;- v your cattle here in order that you might scribed by the Republican party? How about your sugar industry? Do you want cheaper foreign sugar and close in our state 19 sugar factories which employ thous-i- . ands of. men at wages four and five times greater than are paid the:; K Cubans for the sugar they make? j.v-Do you know that this state produced 3,000,000 bags 6? refinedsugar last year for which the farmers received $8,459,000, approx-- ' " ; live-unde- V - , imately? . Democrats the and elect for we instance get burs free Suppose trade, and subsequently are able to purchase foreign goods much cheaper than the present cost of articles, what do you think will be the natural result if our mining industry, cattle and sheep industry and our sugar industry is wiped out of existence? Where will you get your money from to purchase your cheiper i -- goods? V . . 1;?, Why, of course, you can go to some foreign country arid1 go to work for a beggars wage, or you can agree to work at home just as cheap as they work in Japan, China, or any of the European countries. If both of our big parties were for protection of ourJndustjcies, we would have no choice as to the election. But under the circumstances where the Democratic party stands for free trade, and the Re-- ; publicans for a protective tariff, we:must quite sensibly be for the; Republican party, the protector of your and my home, the sponsor; for big wages, the protector of our industries; Mr. Voter,let not your partisanship rule your better judgment.; ; You are living .in America. Be for America and for AmericarisYou are the one to gain or lose by the business conduct of the officials you ' elect. Calvin Coolidge has done, good work. The country is in a condition. Let us keep by voting the Republican ticket. If you vote for free trade you will be out of a job in less than; six months, and you will do your state a great injury. ; By all means, protect Utahs industries. . pros-:-perou- . s. it-s- , Harry S. Joseph has lost his title as Utahs' champion liar, and. the friends of Harry insist that if he is square lie' wilUgiveup the isold medal presented to him by the Salt Lake Telegram, to George Dem. .5 A r ? ; .. |