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Show THE DIFFERENCE. At the state Republican convention In Virginia, Wednesday, Secretary of the Treasury, Leslie M. Shaw, set forth the difference between the two dominant parties at the present time about as nicely as It has ever been done. His speech throughout Is replete re-plete with sound logic, forcible Illustration, Illus-tration, with truth evidenced In every word. Though Utah and Cache county Is almost to busy at the present pres-ent time to consider aught but the harvest, a portion of his speech is so opportune that It must needs prove of interest even at this time. He says: "And now, my friends, what are these principles which divide parties? The panics separate primarily on the questions of political economy. Kvcry Industrious citizen Is both a producer and a consumer The dominant party appeals to the producer. It tells him that the question of greatest Importance to him Is the price at which he disposes of his pioducts, whether these products be labor or the results of labor. The opposition party promises the American consumer consum-er the best market In the world In which to buy. The Republican party promises the producer the best market mar-ket in the world In which to sell "Gentlemen, we cannot have both. Our political opponents may promise high-priced labor and cheap products, high-priced wheat and cheap bread, high-priced cattle and cheap meat.but they make these promises without possibility ol fulllllment. Whenever they have put their policies in operation opera-tion we have had the cheap products of labor, for the products of cheap foreign labor hae found our markets In superabundance The cheap products of labor mean cheap labor. Cheat) factory product carries as a concomitant curse low wages for the artisan, and low wages for the aitlsan means curtailed consumption con-sumption of farm products. Curtailed Curtail-ed consumption of farm pioducts ic-suits ic-suits in a reduction of the pi ice thereof, there-of, while a reduction In the price means lo-s to the pioducer of clothes, of furniture, of cais, of building build-ing materials and every other aitlclc of rural consumption. All this is but a :;ame for stagnation and panic, which has marked every experiment with tarlir for revenue only from the beginning of our history until now. "The disastrous results of free trade have not followed each and every experiment ex-periment with free trade because they were desired by the men who advocated advocat-ed the measures who pioduced them, but because the measures were unwise, un-wise, however learned, however patriotic pa-triotic and however honest were the men who enacted them." |