Show NO G R ll N T E F F E P The fhe Tribune people seem to th think they can beat down the tariff on Utah products without hurting Utah That is the view of the imbecile boy bor who builds a II fire at atthe atthe attile the tile side of the barn but hut doesn't mean to destroy property Or else it is the position of the tile malignant criminal who sets fire to property for the EXPRESS PURPOSE OF DESTROYING DE DF- The rhe Tribune may have its choice The people of this intermountain in- in country will have to conclude one thing or the theother other Either that papers paper's owners believe that a reduction of the tariff on lead and wool and sugar would be helpful to Utah or those owners are purposely trying to hurt tho the state In congress right now there are two forces laboring forthe for forthe forthe the enactment of a new tariff law One side seeks to maintain main main- tain taiti reasonable tariff rates on lead and wool and sugar The other seeks with unusual ability and unprecedented effort effort ef ef- effort ef- ef fort to reduce or ot entirely repeal the tariff on those articles Aldrich Smoot Lodge are foremost in preserving the present tariff on those commodities LaFollette Cummins Nelson Nelson assisted assisted by Democrats Democrats- are arc trying to strip these commodities of the tile protection through which alone a living profit can be made with them The Tue Tribune in its Sunday ay issue declares the men Inen who are aIe attacking Utah's interests have the better hetter of the ment It the reductions would not says propose proposed cripple the industries of this region It applauds Cummins an and La La- Follette It declares Senator Aldrich Adrich has nothing but brute force behind him and expresses the jubilant hope that the insurgents may presently deprive him hinl of his brute strength of support And it declares that Senator Smoot under honorable ethics is IS not ilot competent to vote on the sugar tariff at all alL AVe We e of Utah all un understand the Tribune hates Senator Smoot but that hated should not be permitted to prejudice the interests of the people of Utah So good a judge as Jesse Knight and so good a judge nudge as his son William Villiam telegraphed telegraphed tele tee graphed an impassioned appeal to Senator Aldrich not t to permit a reduction in the lead tariffs Then and every day since the Tribune has been heen loud and bitter in its attacks on Aldrich ldrich an and on every man who has stood steadily with him himin in ill the preservation of the schedules affecting vitally affecting vitally affecting affect affect- ing the jug the interests of Utah and the tile mountain region First FilSt it was the lead schedule All AU the time that was under un- un ler der consideration the Tribune maligned Senator Aldrich and Senator Smoot and praised the labors of LaFollette and find i i ii ri t i Then it was the wool schedule Then Thou it was vas the sugar schedule In all the Tribune published here in Salt Lake Lake Lake- I its owners actually interested in the lead and find many of its friends in all an three of the interests named fought DallIed fought every move loVe of the men who preserved those interests IF THE TRIBUNE TE HAD A ANY ry INFLUENCE IN INTA WASHINGTON WASH VASH TA INGTON THE TARIFF ON LEAD l AND ND ON WOOL AND ND ANDON ANDON ON SUGAR WOULD BE REPEALED WITHOUT AN HOURS HOUR'S DELAY l There here are schedules that should be bo reduced They should be reduced because they are receiving more protection than they ar are arc fairly and equitably entitled to B t it happens that neither lead nor wool nor sugar is among these IT ALSO HAPPENS THAT r THESE THREE FORM FOR THE BASIS OF THE PROSPERITY IN fl TillS THIS WHOLE REGION OF ITCH WI-ITCH SALT LAKE LAIrE IS THE CENTER AND ND THE COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COM COM- MERCIAL METROPOLIS The defeat of the men the Tribune attacks would mean crushing loss and financial ruin to half the enterprises of the state and its neighbors Victory by the men IDen the Tribune praises would smite with disaster the men who are arc today developing developing de de- the resources of the intermountain region IT lIT IS TIME TL FOR THE THU TRIBUNE TO QUIT FIGHTING FIGHTING FIGHTING FIGHT FIGHT- ING ING- ITS FRIENDS |