Show PUBLIC oioit TIle Peoples Department of The Dispatch Think For It Write For It Edited by Sam A Klne The following short table showing the decline of silver cotton and wheat during twenty years of republican administration ad-ministration speaks volumes and carries with it an argument that should silence forever the claims of that party in their attempt to regain asreidency in this land It shows conclusively that this party of wonderful prosperity prosper-ity has absolutely ruined three of the leading industries of the United States Examine the tables and this is what it will tell you Thafm 1872 silver was worth 132 cents per ounce cotton 19i cents per pound and wheat 147 per bushel In 1873 tbe republican party demonetized silver thus destroying one half of the money of our country which reduced the valae of all staple products of the land and destroyed property values throughout the entire country and in 1893 when the republican republi-can party went out of power silver was worth 60 cents per ounce cotton 93 cents per pound and wheat 61 cents per bushel With such a record should this prtj eer be returned to power The people of Utah will enter an em pbatio protest next November against a party with such a record S 5 j < g YEAR m a 1 t 1872 132 193 147 1873 16 188 13l 154 143 1875 124 150 112 187 15129124 118 117 1878 115 111 lJ4 1879 112 99 107 115 125 1881 113 114 111 1882 113 114 119 ii 108 113 1BS 101 105 107 011 106 86 ISb 99 99 89 l887 97 95 85 lSSH 93 98 SO l8Stl 93 99 93 04 102 85 1891 95 70 83 1892 85 73 S9 11193 6 63 61 TilE WOOL TARIFF PREVENTS THE INcREASE IN-cREASE OF SHEEP Seeing so much has been written urmg the past few years on the sheep question and what the g o p has done for that industryit is interesting to see the increase in this protected business when compared with other in duetries unprotected by our good government ernment Read the following and we feel assured you cannot claim much for protection of the sheep industry in our land and what is true of this business is true of many others Sure the people acted wisely and intentionally intention-ally in ISO and they have not since changed their views Open the statistical abstract of the Unite stateD for 1891 on page 319 and read that for 1889 on page 296 The number of unprotected sheep in 18a7 before the protective tax was placed on WOJl l was 39385386 The number of sheep in the United States in 1892 is by the same authority 44 93i3 305 The increase in twentyfour year of protection has been 5552979 or abcut 14 per cent This is an increase crease of a little over onphalf of 1 percent per-cent a year The number of swine in this country coun-try in 1867 was 2400000 In 1892 the number is 52000000 an increase of 116 per cent Unprotected hogs increase in-crease more than eight times faster than protected sheep The number of oxen and other cattle in the United States in 1867 was 11 730952 In 1892 thfi number is 37 51239 The increase in twentyfour earsjias been 220 per cent Unpro tooted Cattle increase about sixteen times faster than protected sheep The number of horses in the United States in 1867 was 5401263 In 1892 the number was 15498140 he in rcaee in twentyfour years has been 187 percent Unprotected horses increase crease Ihii teen times faster than protected pro-tected sheep The number of mules in 1867 was S 2386 In 1892 it is 2314699 The i crease in twentyfour years has been lH per cent Unprotected mules increase in-crease morn than twelve times faster t mn protected sheep The number of mUch cows in 1EG7 was 8348773 In 1892 it was 16416351 The increase is over 96 per cent Unprotected Un-protected milch cows increase nearly seven times faster than protected sheep Let us tabulate Per ctof No in 1867 No in 1S92 increase aeep 39385386 44938365 14 Swine 24693534 52398019 116 Oxen11730952 37651239 220 Horses 5401263 15498140 187 Mules 822386 2 314699 181 Cows 8348773 16416351 96 Thus do the government statistics nail the fals fier who asserts that the tariff has built up the wool industry uIn values the result is precisely similar The sheep were worth in 18G7 132774660 In 1892 they are worth 116121290 After twentyfour yens of protection the sheep in the country are worth less than they were in 1867 The decrease in the yalue of protected sheep has been 12 per ntfI |