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Show GEOGRAPHICAL PROTECTION. 1'rolection, tariff protection, protects the east only. Not the west nor even the people of the east, only the manufacturers. manu-facturers. Protection east is deetruc tion west. But brief space is necessary to establish both these propositions, we think. Kelatively speaking the manufacturers manu-facturers of this country are east of the Alleghaniee, at least they are east of the Mississippi river. The protection contemplated and actually adopted by the republican party is constructed t J exclude foreiin cotnpeitlion. The peo-ple.the peo-ple.the population of the eastern etateE, aye, even the laborers in the New England mills are unprotected from the rapacities of the manufacturers and like the farmers and all other i classes of people, pay the arbitrary exactions ex-actions of the lordly masters of the mills. If this is so, and we do not believe be-lieve there is a single reputable paper in the west of any political party which will deny it, what must be the effect of protection here in the far west where to these first exactions are to be added those of a sore or two of hungry and grasping middle men? In view of all these circumstances well might Brig-ham Brig-ham Young exclaim, "How can any Mormon be anything politically other than a democrat?" It is true that the ; eastern states possess advantages over the great agricultural states of the west as manufacturing centers which cannot be overcome. Had we the 6ame water power, timber, coal, climate, clim-ate, etc, that they have, we would still be confronted with the transportation transpor-tation problem and the long haul would murder our aspirations in this way. Every cent of duty placed upon raw material is added to first cost. The mill men do not pay it. Who does? Not the middle men, not the far western west-ern merchant. Who does? Does it take a seer to answer? None other than the consumer, the far western farmer, miner, laborer, and all others who are compelled to use the protected good?. - i ttO OUbU It mean? Their employers, their master. Under this system has grown up a slav sry which surpasses the old African Afri-can article ot ante bellum davs, as the eun surpasses the tallow dip in iilumin I atmg power. If it stopped there it i would not be so bad. We might con I template it with a degree of calmness. I But it dues not. It reaches the people 1 of all classes here amoDg the lovely I mountains of beautiful Utah, as it I does the wheat growers of level Kan- I 6ae, or the corn growers of the Mis- I sissippi valley. "We toil to raise wheat, and what the eastern owned I railroads do not exact for transpcrta- i tion is filched from us in the exorbitant I prices charged for those manufactured I products for which we trade our pro- I ductions, as well ae in the combines, I corners and pools through which our I unfortunate wheat is compelled to I move. The west, with all her fabu- I Jously rich lands is pale, exhausted 1 and imnorprichpfl hpnunco nf dia-n ex actions. We are to become but slaves eince this great, grand and loving republican re-publican party has come to reign over ub. It is a startling fact that for the last fifteen years, no farmer in all the great corn and wheat growing regions of the west, bus made a single dollar by the legitimate operations of,his fairo not one, and there is hardly ,a foot of laud west of the Mississippi which is not mortgaged for every dollar it is worth, to eastern men, trust companies and other cruel and wicked combinations. combina-tions. The interest ot these mortgages must come with clock-like regularity, or the poor dispainng farmer and his family must go naked and seek the open prairies or rugged mountains for the only shelter within the reach of the unfortunates. This is not an overdrawn statement of one phase of the evils inflicted by republican re-publican protection.God save us forever from this sort of wolfish and hyenalike hyena-like tender care. Is it possible that big-hearted, generous Utah will by her vote next November say to the world: We are satisfied with republican republi-can protection, which murders thus and licks its bloody chops every time a groan bursts from the lips of the agonized, dispairing western farmer. |
