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Show B DEMOCRATIC RECIPROCITY. B The Demociatic platform comes out strongly B this year for reciprocity. In tne Democratic text B book of 1892, wo find that in Democratic opinion B then, "reciprocity looks like free trade but tastes Br like protection." This leaves the ordinary reader B in tne fix that the tramp was in who said to the K ! lady, "Your dog wags his tail, but he is growling B' savagely; I don't know which end of him o be- ilieve." There are two kinds of reciprocity. The Republican Re-publican kind would admit into this country free !of duty such articles as we do not produce, but uso extensively, like Gutta Percha or lare woods or any other tropical product; on condition that K tropical countries would admit our flour wheat, m iron and steel, boots and shoes, agricultural im- K plements, etc., free of duty. But the Democrats in H the, St. Louis platform want reciprocity, especially K s with Canada, and as Canada only produces what H . we produce, it means merely another term for K free trade. Suppose, for instance, we had reci- B prooity with Canada, how much wouid our present R tariff on wool, hides, live stock, timber and lead BaVL ""- be worth? But the effoit is just being made in Utah, so far as Utah is concerned, to turn over thG oxficutive and legislative branches of the government gov-ernment to the men who are d&termlnod in every possible way to neutralize the tariff and finally kill it. The Democratic party Is pledged, Judge Powers is pledged, Mr. Moyle is pledged, ex-Senator Rawlins is pledged, very man Who endorses the St. Louis platform is pledged to It. ' tfhey ail know what it brought twelve year3 ag6, but that make mo difference with a party whose members hold the word Democrat as a fetish, fet-ish, which must be worshipped and which is supported sup-ported by the class of men which never forgets and never learns anything. |