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Show PEOTECTIO.; FROM TWO POINTS. The empl in? manufacturer looks at protection 1 1 , entirely different differ-ent standpoint fr l-ilat occupied by his employe. tvA tbe . onsumers of his wares. His havUv3? is to exclude competition. He ;e tor a monopoly, but has it ever beei. said that when he can fijcJiis own pries on an article his workmen get the dlTerence in prices brought about by this condition, in increased in-creased wages,or doeB the consumer buy at a lower price? Protection was never designed to protect all the parties in interest. It was projected only to protect pro-tect the owners, not the wage workers or the consumers of the product. Suppose Sup-pose the manufacture of type-setting machines was protected by a heavy tariff, say a prohibitory tariff, would that protect either the men who did the labor on them or the toiling printers who are displaced by the machine. Which class are the protectionists endeavoring en-deavoring to serve in this enterprite? A tariff on wool protects whom? The mills? o. The operatives? Xo. The consumers?, No. Who then? , Simply the wool growers who get a small price more per pound. What relation do the wool growers of the nation bear to the remainder of the people? - Is it not about one to every fifteen thousand? Does the good old doctrine of the greatest great-est good to the greatest number de- monil tn t zra irt-rnfant iha mfliror and permit all the other parties in interest S to take care of themselveB? If sugar production is to be protected or bonussed, which is the same thing, how much are the wheat growers, the orchard men, the mechanics, the. law-1 , public benefited? Proctection ie a j preciouBboon to monopoly but it is ! engaged in other pursuits, to the tax- payers as well. Protection isn't for the masses ; it is solely and only for the monopolists. A protected or bon-usBed bon-usBed industry is not independent. It is dependent. It has no life in it i which is of permanent value to the general business of the land. It is simply a leach upon, the body politic, adding nothing to the taxable volumes, doing no good save only to those who run it. The south is now making iron and spinning cotton cheaper than they can make or manufacture these products pro-ducts anywhere else in the United States. The southerners are much like other people. If they can get an advantage advan-tage for their iron mills or cotton looms from the government, they will do so. They loudly cry for protection. Our protectionists here point to this cry as the voice of the eouth. It is only the voice of the mills, the monopolists, monop-olists, not the voire of the farmerB, the planters, the mechanics, the wage-earners, wage-earners, in short the people. The masses of the southerners are as they have alwavs be a, free traders. The voice of the one class calling for pro tection is not the voice of the people. The protection of one class or one I man is the death of the other class and other men interested. Suppose silyer was today the money it was . prior to '73, how much necessity would there be for protection in Utah? Who would care for it? We would dig and smelt our silver and go into the markets where we could buy the cheapest, that which we need, or where we could sell our silver bullion for the most money. That is all there is to it. All this protection or subsidy is false st imulation.un wholesome and deceptive de-ceptive in every way. The country blacksmith goes into a neighborhood whers there is work to be done. He does not go into the .wilderness and then wait for, or seek to subsidize people to settle round him. |