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Show IN his speech accepting the nomination lor re-. election, President Wilson said the Republican ' party had "framed tariff laws based on a fear of ! foreign trade, a fundamental doubt as to American skill, enterprise and capacity." Let us consider that from a standpoint which every man and woman in Utah can understand. After much experiment and many disappointments disappoint-ments the scientific methods of raising sugar beets and converting the sacharine element in them into sugar had been made a success, to the advantage of our farmers, many working men, and the making possible the keeping at home the larger sums of money formerly sent awuy xo buy j sugar. This was made possible by the tariff. Sixty miles from the southern Keys of Florida I is a great island justly called "The Gem of the la Ocean." It has vast cane sugar plantations owned J by the "special classes," who long ago outained II titles to them. They employ axslaves to do their woric, men 1 and women whose clothing does not cost $5 per I capita per annum; whose pay does not exceed ten I cents per day, poor worthy, who have no pride of 1 ancestry,, and no hope of being certain of their i posterity, whose children are growing up naked 1 and without the rudest elements of an education. I But Mr. Wilson's lieutenants struk down the 1 slight tariff on the books to protect American 1 farmers from that direct competition, only pre- 1 paring the timo when the new law should go into 1 'effect a few months off, and Mr. Wilson gladly signed the bill. When the time came that the law was to go into effect, the extravagance of the administration had heen so fearful, that it decided to still further extend the timo when the law should go into effect, and gave as a reason, not that they cared a continental what became of the farmer or the sugar maker, but that they needed the revenue. That shows their real love for the farmer more than a hundred "Rural Credit" laws couiu, that shows, too, that; there was some occasion for the Republican "fear" of foreign competition despite American skill and enterprise. When our people hero started the enterprise of making' the sugar the country was paying to foreigners the equivalent of $80,000,000 in gold for foreign sugar. That money was all sent away and was a total . loss to this country. That amount placed in any savings bank would draw $4,000,000 per annum in interest, which would bo worth keeping at home if possible, would it not? The above is a statement which any ordinary person can understand and we think that from it the people can fully understand, ujst how broad is the statesmanship of Mr. Wilson and his most distinguished party friends, and what a 'burlesque all their pretended salutates for the welfare of the American farmer. It makes clean, too, that above all, the clamor of the new progressiveness of the Democratic party, on the most important question before the American people, that party has not advanced one inch since its chief men would have destroyed the government of the "United States on account of this very question had a Wilson instead of a Jackson been president at the time. That was nearly four years ago. There is a clam which Is often seen on the sea shore, when it tries to advance ad-vance it walks backward. That clam should be an emblem on the escutcheon of the Democratic party. |