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Show THAT RALLY. It must have been a little depressing to the spirits of those enthusiasts of our city, who have been saying that "Provo is overwhelmingly Republican," Republi-can," to witness the want of enthusiasm enthusi-asm amoug the many at the rally in the Opera House on Monday evening. The speakers on the stage made more noise than all others. Not more than ten in the body of the house greeted the speakers even with a clap of the hand. From a Republican view, no doubt some good points were made. Mr. Morgan is a ready and strong speaker. But Republican-like he only skimmed the silvery surface. In comparing com-paring the educational status of the Democratic with the Republican States he failed to mention New York, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts and others, which are noted for their enlightenment- and - civilization as Democratic, and tliat as the Northern North-ern and Eastern States are becoming broader and deeper in learning and science they are one by one falling in with Democracy. He didn't mention the fact that the great cities of New York, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, etc. the very centres of learning, are and have been for a long time "overwhelmingly" "overwhelm-ingly" Democratic. In those Southern States, where such a high percentage of illiteracy was shown, Mr. Morgan didn't say, as he should have done, that the 30 or 40 or 50 per cent, of illiterate persons was composed almost wholly of negroes who are all Republicans, and that if the blacKs were counted out those States would stand on a par with their northern neighbors. Another fact was overlooked. It is conceded by all that nearly every college col-lege president and professor in the country is a Democrat. Every writer on political economy, so far as we have ever found, is solid against the tariff system. And why? Because any one who figures out the scheme comes to the same conclusion, "whether he will or not," as a great writer says, just as you would find out how much you could get for a given quantity of wheat at a given price a bushel. The process would carry you to the correct result whether it suited you or not. So with this tariff problem. Anyone can figure fig-ure it out for himself and show the injustice in-justice and unequality of the present system. And Judge Bennett, able man though he is, really stultified himself in his argument. In one breath he was descanting on the beauties beau-ties of the protective tariff, and showing how it enabled home industries indus-tries to thrive among us. In the next he was reading long columns of figures to prove that protection makes goods cheaper, that protection don't protect. In tlie lirst instance lie tells us that uy putting a duty on imports, prices are raised and our home industries are enabled to build up a business by reason rea-son of the increased price, and this we have always been led to believe was the real object of a tariff. But he knocks the very foundation out of this hypothesis when he reads those figures. His argument is on a parallel with the Enquirer's tin-plate tin-plate article of a few nights ago, when it asserted that our importers had been paying $4.15 per box for tin plate, but since the McKinley bill was going go-ing into effect it was being imported at $3.35. And now under the protection protec-tion we would be able to build up tin plate factories all over our country. In other words, when it was imported at $4.15 our manufacturers were crushed, but when it is sold at $3.35, factories will spring up all over the country like mushrooms. Seel Well, our Republican friends are in a bad box, and we must not deal too severely with that meeting, nor with our evening contemporary. of Salt Lake for disbanding, and yet before the week closed it comes out as the champion of Republicanism, and that, too, before any action was taken disbanding the People's party of Utah county. For many years the Enquirer has been a lover of Democracy ,. showing the evils of the tariff system, strong centralized government, and the many other Republican ideas. Even within the last month has it denounced Republicanism. Re-publicanism. Its readers have been confronted with column after column of figures showing the evils of the oppressive op-pressive system called tariff; lengthy editorials denouncing the unconstitutionality unconstitu-tionality and wickedness of the Lodge Force bill; the tyranny of Tom B. Reed and the holding of McKinley up to execration. Now it shuts its eyes to all the truths it has ever uttered ut-tered in favor of Democracy, and swallows swal-lows the Republican pill, Lodge, McKinley, Mc-Kinley, Reed, and all. It turns its back upon its friends, who have been following it. Just as the golden shore of Democracy is in sight, it wheels about, and without giving any reason for its sudden |