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Show ! -MISLEADING LITERATURE. ! The people of Provo and Utah county generally, and, possibly other porti .ns jOf the territory, have had scattered j broadcast among them by the Republican Republi-can party, a certain series of pamphlets allied "The Deiender." In these pamphlets pam-phlets there is considerable misleading statements and figures, tactics characterise charac-terise of the Republican party, but which are not fair in waging our political politi-cal battles. Speaking of this work an exchange says: "The Defender" is published by the American Prolectiv .tariff League, and in the interests ot the prot; cted m U-owners. Its avowed object is the "'protection of American labor and industries." The real object is to deceive the working people into the belief that the protected mill-owners mill-owners desire to pay their employes high wages, and that with protection they can and will do so. If the reudeis nave never discovered that there is a sort of tactic, agreement among protected pro-tected manufacturers to advance wages, these pamphlets hasten to assure as-sure them that such is the case. If the people can be fooled into believing that, there will be clear sailing for the protected pro-tected rich in tteir crusade against the laboring poor. Some of these pamphlets labor long to prove that food products raised on American farms are cheap or cheaper here than they are in Europe. This is a fact. Everything produced on American Amer-ican farms is as cheap or cheaper here than it is abroad. But "The Defender" carefully conceals the other half of the truth, viz. : that everything every-thing produced in American factories "is from 10 to ldO per cent, dealer than the same articles produced abroad. That is the whole point in the taritT con trove tro-ve rsy. Protection does not raise the price of American farm goods, but it does raise the price of American manufactured manu-factured goods. The farmers sell in the cheapest and buys in the dearest market. They pay protection prices for everything they buy, but do not get protection prices for anything they sell. The Republicans tell the tarmer he should cheerfully pay double prices for the things he buys, because he, in turn, is protected by a tariff on wheat, eggs and cabbages; and then they gravely inform him that his crops sell for less here than in any other country. Republicans Re-publicans have a deep and abiding faith in the stupidity of the American farmer. "The Defender" (No. 8, page 21,) says: "Our total product of w heat was about 450,000,000 bushels in the fiscal year of 1887. of which we exported 101,-971,940 101,-971,940 bushels, estimated at the New York custom house of the value of $90,-716.481. $90,-716.481. The price of this as of the residue resi-due of the crop sold here, . fixed by the price in England. There you get it. The price in England Eng-land fixes the price in America of farm products only. The price of farm products in England is the amount of goods that can be had in exchange for them. Wheat can be sold in England at 80 cents a bushel le us sav. The purchasing power of gold there is, in manulactiired goods, from one-third to one-half greater than it is here, while in farm prouuets its purchasing j pow.r is no greater there that here. It will not pay the farmer to import the gold, therefore, so he invests in manufactures manu-factures abroad the price he gets for ids wheat and brings in the manufactured manufact-ured goods. He can buy 200 yards of silk abroad for $100, and oniv 100 yards here for that price. But" when he brings in these manufactures the i ov-ernment ov-ernment confiscates one-third of them at the custom house to pay the taritT taxonihrm. Thus by act of the government gov-ernment the purchasing power of farm crops sent abroad is reduced one-third, so that the price in the home market shail not be less than in the foreign market. The foreign prices fix the homo jri!, unci the government seizes one-thlru of the foreign price at t tie custom houses, thus reducing the price of all farm crops sold at home or abroad by the exact amount of the tax levied on the imported goods that are the nav for the farm crops sold abroad. But "The Defender" then proceeds to score the farmers in this silly fashion: fash-ion: "The price of this exported" wheat, as of the residue of the crop .sold here is fixed by the price In England. And the pric;; there is fixed by the price at which wheat can be supplied from the British East Indies, where wheat W. produced by men who labor and boar.: : I themselves on wages of 10 cents a day."' "The Defender" knows, if it knows anything, that the Mice of w heat is fixed by the demand for wheat as compared with the actual supply and is not fixed by what wages are paid in its production. As well might this tariff babbler tell the manufacturers of cotton goods that the price of their cotton cot-ton fabrics is fixed by the wages paid to East Indian laborers at the cotton looms, which are also 10 cents a dav. This scare can be applied to the pio-duction pio-duction of everything; it has no more application to wheat than to cotton cloth, silk, iron, or tin. This theory that American farmers cannot export wheat because Fast Indian wheat growers work for 10 cents a day, is disproved dis-proved by the fact that American farmers farm-ers do export wheat to the value of nearly $100,000,000 annually. But "The Defender's" remedy tor this condition con-dition which compels the American farmer to compete with the East Indian is, to tax the American farmer one-third of what he still gets for his wheat, so that he shall notim-p notim-p rt manufactured goods the payment for his wheat into this country at all. Take this profitable foreign market away from the f rmer altogether and give it to the manufacturer, is "The Defender's" remedy, so that the manufacturer manu-facturer and not the farmer shall com-1 fete with the East Indian. The farmer beats the East Indian without protection. To enable the manufacturer manufac-turer to beat the F.ncf Tnrlior. ti,Q American farmer must stop farming! I and let the East Indian raise the wheat. and the manufacturer will send Ms i goods to Ind. a and bring back Indian : wheat with which to undersell the I American farmer in his own market, j Tax the farmer's pay for his wheat ' until he can no longer afford to sell i wheat abroad, and give the East In-! In-! dian the privilege of supplying England ; with wheat, and then the manufacturer : v, ;11 gain the market and the farmer 'loses and will proceed to compete with j the pauper East Indian in the manufacture manu-facture of cotton goods and import j wheat in pavment. The professed! sympathy for the farmer because he j must compete with the East Ind. an, is a mere hoax. Every producer must! compete with everyone else in the same i business. The fact is, the farmers of j this country can and do compete w ith all rivals without the aid of tariff taxes, while the manufacturer demands and I j gets a tax of 30 per cent, levied on the ! farmers to aid him in taking from them j their foreign market. For the farm surplus is turned into manufactured goods by exchange, ami thus competes with the American manufactories in supphing manufactures to theAraeri-' can people. No wonder the mannfac-! turers ask that the farmers be driven ; from this exporting and importing! business. I ! American farm products are sold as! cheaply at road as they are hereabouts j "The Defender." Too true, but how about manufactured goods? White lead sells for 5 cents in the foreign market and 11 cents here; soda, liceutson the foreign market ami 3 cents here; window glass, above 16 inches square, 2 cents a pound on the foreign market and 4 tents here; plate glass, l!5 cents a squ-ire foot there and 85 cents here, pig iron, S13 per ton there and $20 here; iron for buildin" purposes, 1 1-10 cents a pouud there and 2 3-10 cents a pound here ; sugar, 3 cents there and 5 cents here; the blanket blan-ket that costs 50 cents a pound there sells for 85 cents a pound here; Uncloak Un-cloak tiiat sells for $2 there sells for 83.10 here; women's and children's diess goods that sell for 15 cents a yard there sell for 24 cents a yard here; the tlannel that sells for 20 cents a yard there sells for 37 cents a yard here; tiie wool hat that sells lor 65 cents thrre sells for $1.10 here; the knit goods that cost 26 cents a pound there cost 45 cents here; Shawls costing ti3 cents a pounu there cost $1.53 here; and so on. Senator Vest in the Senate produced a copyof the foreign edition of the Mail and Export Journal, which contained the advertisement of 100 American manufacturing firms proposing to deliver de-liver their goods on board ship at New York at the price mentioned by them in the paper. In the American edaioii tuey give the price at which tuey offered of-fered to sell to Americans. Tiie ju ices of some of tht-se protected gomis to the toreigiiers and to ihj Amcrieaus respectively re-spectively were as follows : Prices to Prices to A ittri- Eoieigtt' cans. ers. Advance plough.. $ 9 oh $ is 00 Advance plough 4 00 8 00 Hay tt uder 30 00 45 (;0 Horse rake pj to 3-5 00 CummiLg ft-ed cutter N"-- 50 0 0 90 00 Ann Arbor cutler No. 2 18 00 40 ou Clipper cutter 9 50 is Ou Silver cutter 4 2-5 8 00 Cultivator 22 no 30 (.0 Sweep t;u on )) (,0 Anil so it goes tlirougli hats of thou-i sands of articles, which are sold in the open markets of tne world, without any protection, to foreigners at 10 to 100 ner eent. less t.h.ni thov -.i u u. .1.1 Americans for. Not one ot them needs any protection whatever; yet they get the government to permit themto charge higher prices to Americans than to foreigners. for-eigners. What else is protection for? Whoever imports these goods will he fined from 10 to 100 per cent, at tfie custom houses for doing so. This is; to prevent the farmers irorn turning their surplus products into manufaciiired .,' iods by exchange, for if they were permitted to do so without being fined one-third of their pay tor doiug it, thev wo-. Id surely compel American manufacturers manu-facturers to sell in this country a cheaply as they sell abroad. |