Show ivi w = 0 J < PUBLIC OPiNION The Peoples Department of The Dispatch Think For It Write For It Edited by Sam A Klnsr To the Editor PUBUC OPINION Nature is made better by no mien But nature aiakes that mien And oer tbe art which you say adds to natures Is an art that nature makes The above is conceded to be true by every student of nature in its physical and vital forms and it is equally true in the domain of intellect Every socalled improvement on nature if traced backward to that I which gave birth to the suggestion I will be found to have its origin in nature Whenever men depart from the simple laws of nature in their mode of living serious consequences result And whenever men depart from the teachings of natuie in framing laws for the control of industry and commerce they drift awav from the moorings of safety and stability The law of nature relative to its unrestricted un-restricted intermingling of the elements ele-ments is the only safe guide that men can follow in their industrial and com mercial relations Whenever digressions digres-sions from that law are made industrial indus-trial and commercial paralysis results and just in proportion to the length of time and greatness of the departure from the natural law of interchange are the inevitable consequences Nature Na-ture demands the utmost faithing of the penalty she inflicts for any infraction infrac-tion of her laws Every industrial and commercial panic that has afflicted the human family fam-ily can be traced to obstructive legisla tion or to some glut caused by overproduction over-production or unwise speculation Protection socalled in the fictitious or artificial values which it induces stimulates production far beyond the demands of the consumers of the products pro-ducts and stagnation in those lines of industry is the natural result And itt it-t iiidd to rsifcon that the greater the no ection caused by higher tariff laws anti the more uumeious the products hat are thus protected the greater will be tha incentive ti production and wben the markets refuse to receive ceive the surplus products greater stagnation will be the sure aud natural consequence and those that have been engaged in manuf tcturing those protected tected commodities are forced to shutdown shut-down their works and discharge their mpoyes Thus dots tho stagnation caused by protection jesult in two evils First suddenly throwing on the labor market thousands of men and women that are dependent on their daily toil for their daily bread and the sudden lowering of the price ot products far below the cost of manufacture In order to check production and maintain prices the manufacturers form combinations factories are shutdown shut-down or the number i f their employes reduced and the pro I eta disposed of in accordam with the demands of the consumers Ti us are the manufacturers manufactur-ers forced to the unlawful creation of combines in order to protect them selves from the inevitable consequen ces of the protection for which they are clamoring For more than thirty years the republican repub-lican party has been building tariff dams in the stream of industry and commerce Every few years they have increased the height of those protec tive dams and by so doing have clog gedand obstructed the natural chan nelD of trade until the mighty pressure has been so great that our industries have been unable to withstand the artifiCial strain and the result is that wreck and ruin have come to them An acorn may be planted in the soil of a hot house and in the heated arti ficial atmosphere of such a place its growth will be so unnaturally stimu kited that it will attain a growth in a few years equal to that of fifty years in its natural soil and climate 1 nap p earance it would resemble an oak b tits t-its fibre would not be nearly so dense nor tougn and if exposed to the chilling chill-ing blasts of winter it would wither and die Many of the industries of the United States have grown up in the heated and stimulating atmosphere of artificial artifi-cial protectionand today the people are witnessing the devastating effects of such artificial growth Suppose the industrial development of f our nation had been exposed to natural trade laws and environments tsgiowth would have been slowerbut like the oak that has grown up in the open air and subjected to alternations ot heat and cold the industries of our land would have been rugged and healthy and would have weathered the storms and tempests of natural conditions Such a thing as a combine which flourishes test under artificial conditions would have been almost unknown Strikes would h 1 aye been less frequent because the industries would haye been developed in proportion propor-tion to the needs of consumers and overproduction would have been nub or the question Every strike lessens the wages of the employes by the law of competition among those Out of employment for the privilege of laboring labor-ing in those industries not affected by strikes Had undirected trade been the policy of the United States the large foreign element would not have been lured to this land by the glitter of higher wages and thus the competition etweep American toilers for American p I employment would have been reduce I to the minimum Under the sopalle protection policy of the republican party and the high wages incident to the civil war wages in this country were at the highest point thirtv years ago and every time a foot or so has been added to the height of the tariff dam wages have gone down As before be-fore stated those same high prices for labor have brought hither hundreds of thousands of foreicnera who not only have been competitors with American working men but they have become a menace to the very existence of the industries that attracted them tothis land and to the government that shelters them The democratic party have charged the protective policy oi their opponents with the crime for it is a crime of building up one section of tbe country at the expense of another and of foster jug one industry to the detriment tJf another That indictment has been met only with derision but there is a case in hand which every man and woman in Utah can understand Thirty years ago the valleys and so called deserts of southern Utah were I covered with grass white sage bud sane etc which furnished nutritive aud almost unlimited pasturage for tens of thousands of cattle The mountains provided a luxuriant summer sum-mer range from which the cattle would emerge so fat and sleek that they could endure the severity of winters with but little loss of flesh or numbers All it cost in those daysto raise a steer was a week spent twice each year at the spring and fall drives The owner of two or three cows could regain possecsion of them at the spring drives and by securing the calves could turn them on the rich natural meadows adjoining the town and make buttei during the summer for winter use In the tall he could turn out his cows and the natural increase would in a few years mat him independent But protection to the wool industry came along and the stockmen as i class have been ruined Protection of wool so stimulated the sheep industry that the mountains and vallejs have been filled with droves of sbeep whose close grazing and sffaip hoofs have destroyed the forage vegetation in the mountains and are rapidly killing the grass and sage of the desert ranges In addition to the natural profits of wool growing the protection afforded theowners enabled them to make frem fifty to seventyfive per cent on th investment in-vestment This fact stimulated the industry all over the United States to the extent that the supply of native wools exceeded the demand and right I in the lace of the highest tariff ever known on wool it begun to depreciate in price until competition in the selling sell-ing markets and a still closer compe tion for western ranges had wellnigh ruined the industry before the panic which if J11f pyjv tr Io J t > le to the protective pro-tective policy finished the work of rum to the wool industry of the west Now will not the most obdurate of our friends the republicans acknowledge acknowl-edge that those who raise stock are one class and that oheepmen are another an-other class Will they not concede that the tariff increased their profits Will tuej not als > concede the fact that the unnatural profits of wool growing induced in-duced an unnatural expansion of the industry Will they not grant that the million and over of sheep in Utah denuded the range to the extent that cattle cannot now live where ten or fifteen years ago they would thrive In short will net any candid man cor cede that the sheep industry has killed the cattle industry and that in so doing do-ing one class has suffered for the benefit ben-efit of another class and that this condition con-dition of things has been wrought by the unnatural illogical wagedestroy iug and damnable policy of protectionism protection-ism J F GIBBS W P BAIES of 240o Jones street Omaha iNeb says of Parks Suie Cure U My wife has been constitutionally constitu-tionally wrecked for years TriAd everything fruitlessly My druggist persuasion backed bv his guarantee induced me to buy a bottle of Parks Sure Cure The results are truly sn derlul ParksSure Cure for the Liver and Kidneys is a positive specific for the disease of Women Sold by Smoot Drug comoanv BATHING excellent at the Geneva llcsoit A STOKE your wheat with the Provo Milling Co D R Beebe Mngr THK shoe department at T G Web bers has given immense satisfaction call and inspect it if a FABKEII 13nos i Co have a full ard fresh assortment groceries Jbinv Dlanos ant one hundred organs ou easy t rutJut Taylor Brother company it OKOAVDS of pee have been attending attend-ing the bargain sale at Irvine Barneys this wees Their goods are certainly the chtapest we have seen Foil the semiannual conference Lat terday Saints at Salt Lake city October I tober 5th fo 7th inclusive and for the territorial fair and exposition October 2nd to 6th inclusive the R G W will make a rate of one fare for the roundtrip round-trip Tickets will be sold from October Oc-tober 2nd to 7th inclusive limited to October loth for return C Y TAGGAKT piano tuner of Salt Lake will be in Provo on Monday the 17th inst Parties desiring his services will leave word with H E Giles |