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Show FOR MEN TO THINK OF. The Presidential campaign is on; in a couple of months the voters of the United States will decide de-cide whether the policies that now prevail shall be continued, or whether new engineers shall take charge of. the machinery. Every voter should decide what is best for him to do. Every voter is I a unit of the Government, and a decision of a majority of these units makes up the decrees that bind. How will the men of Utah respond T Except Ex-cept for tho policy that now -prevails every lead miner in this state would have been forced to give up his occupation years ago. How will the lead miners vote? With the tariff removed from load more than half the silver mines would bo forced to close down. How will the silver miners vote? Except for Republican legislation there would never have been a sugar factory in Utah, the ground now devoted to raising beets would have been left for common agricultural products, they would have been vastly cheaper than they now are, the lands would have been quite 50 per cent cheaper. How will the farmers vote-? I Except for the Republican tariff, there would practically bo no wool Industry In Utah, and what there might have been would leave no profit to the sheep men. How will the sheep men vote? Take away the profits from wool, from beets, from lead, and it is clear that the sales of merchants would be reduced 00 per cent. How will the merchants vote? With the tariff removed from wool it would be cheaper to buy the product of foreign factories than to purchase the home article. How will the employees of the woolen factories vote? With tho change that would come with the throwing off of the tariff 60 per cent of the traffic carried on by railroads in Utah would be taken away. How will the railroad men vote? With the railroad traffic reduced CO per cent and with lead mining closed down, what would the foundrys and machine shops do to keep open their doors? How will the skilled workmen vote? i With these industries crippled there. would practically be no more new buildings constructed for years to come, and rents would fall quite 60 i per cent. How will the brick men, the lumber mn, the cement men, the Btone men and the ski.led and unskilled laborers who build homes vote? With the work stopped how would the pro fessional men live? What would become of the men who deal in money? How will the lawyers, doctors and bankers votoZ Thi3 list might bo muih extended, for the pro- ' tectlve system has its $plrect or indirect effect upon every business of fflp country. Under it not only have the great mfmufacturlng interests of the country been built vmk but every other business busi-ness has been vitalized fflbugU it. Would it not be better for the Democjpjtic party to move to make President Roosevelt' election unanimous? |
