Show 57 THE REDUCTION IN WAGES the 1 of Ili duAry from tho the terrible terri blo that came cattle upon it last eur ear is elow at beat best anil and he set with more inore or au doubt and hesitancy abilla are tire starting up here and 1 thare and a lieu ua t enterprise is occasioning M but it la is easy to sto lint bat the con coll editions of discouragement aro baill pr ebent and anti that there id is it 9 general beneral inclination to avoid risk risks that would readily bv be taken under orth nary tile worst feature of tile situation in is that alit roer a I 1 of an till kindre kind re s operation oil the scale settle of afi 1 reduced and find this low en ii of the returns of labor 0 ocr ir tin tile whole hole field of during the past nino little or ten months there has aten a readjust ident of wage ages in tit all the tile leading branches of industry ami and in tit cur instance the result has been a loss to the wage camera earners there haa has been no case of an increase of pay for auy any kind of hired service but a uniform tendency in tit the opposite direction ili the tle reductions iong have averaged av an raged about 20 per cent that ie is to eay say one fifth of tho the proceeds of labor haa has been taken aay aft ay and the working classes classe sare are just that much less prosperous prosper oui than they were ere before the hard tunoa timea ensued the depression haa has cost them that amount in the actual shrinkage of their wages and there la is no proa pros pelts of material improvement in tit that respect for some time to come coate it is not to be expected that the passage of the wilson bill avill ft ill stimulate manufacturers and make labor marex roc remunerative on oil the con contrary arary it ie is calculated to prolong the present condition and k keap et 1 wages down to a low standard the amplo employers era can not afford to pay an am much ae as they paid when legislation was fit endly tat tie eibi will haie ha e to take what is of it red or they will get nothing As suming then that a an of 20 per por cent cents at least is tit likely to be ile the tile rule under the tile new tariff law it t in is easy to compute the aggregate loan loss that must fall upon tile work ingmen by reason the democratic and anti protection policy such a reduction of tho the wage fund of the united states amounts to and it means the tile carf of that much less money 11 in tho ille various channels ch anneli lq of trade the tile blow w 11 be falt not by ill the e labor ors alone but also by th tho dialers in tit all till kinde kinds of products and anti merL handie it signified signi nei fieg a general red reduction ution of sales and profits he be cause it implied a general lessening lessening of the I 1 power of tho the people tina this ie is what demoe vitic tariff rt form comes to when practically considered the country were promised better times it they would elect cle eland and una this is lathe the way in tit the promise is bemp being re deci i there is to be one fifth or more subtracted from the earn ingson and the burdens of taxation tire to be mons increased in tit order to carry out it of hostility to protected in lustrica lustri cR the simple statement of hie this fact tella tells the whole story and at the same time presents tho the reason why there is a reaction throughout ho tile entire country against the party hat that ie is thus trilling trifling with the tile in tit eresta terest of all till classel 0 tobe demo crat TUB tile managers mann gera of the dese et agricultural und and manufacturing society have shown their wisdom in announcing that a territorial Terri tortal fair will be held in salt lake city next october now let the sanpete county fair association be organ iced and the announcement made that the first fair will be beheld held at manti this fall thai that will have A business ring to it THE wool scouring plant should be erected without delay askving A saving of per year to the people of slant in is well worth looking after flor gor CAI EB W WEST baa has issued a proclamation ordering a term ol 01 the first district court to tie ile held in manti next july this 1 is as it should be and indicates that people oa on the outside arc are beginning to recognize kant as one of the mo most moa A prominent cities of utah outside the metropolis it if we could only get the people of the temple city to see the importance of this place as others do we e would soon rise to the point where hantl would be known far and near as the commercial metropolis melro polie ot of boulb frn and central utah |