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Show UTAH WISDOM WASTED ON TARIFF. The editorial writer on the Salt Lake 1 1 rald-Repub llcan is barren of facts, but long on words. He can write more twaddle based on nothing than any other talented wleider of words In the United States, which Is a distinction not to be overlooked. Ol late he has specialized on tariff with i the result that ho has tMecI column.; of space and said nothing of valuo to any one seeking to be Informed on the subject. This morning he has a lengthy statement to the effect that the tin-plate tin-plate Industry jn Wales Is to be saved sav-ed by the new tariff law in the United Unit-ed States, "as the Welsh manufac turers find they can regain the American Am-erican market." The Salt Lake editor should be sufficiently suf-ficiently well informed to know that the American tlnplate industry Is sn well established that within the last five yean our tlnplate has driven the Welsh article out of the Canadian Can-adian market, if the American product pro-duct can meet the Welsh tlnplate in one of the British markets where the trade advantage, if any. are in favor of the Welsh producers, and there underbid its competitor to the extent of winning the business, by what stretch of the imagination can an one presume that those same Welsh manufacturers aro to enter our ports and undersell us in our own markets" A little common sense Injected In to the Herald-Republican's editorial page might prevent this constant blundering. One of our largest wholesale houses hous-es has sent us the following card received re-ceived from the company's corre f-pondent in touch with the trade In the east "New York, Dec. 18. After an eleven elev-en weeks experience with the Now tariff our connections abroad report foreign manufacturers are as a whole sadly disappointed. During the early summer steamship companies experienced exper-ienced a very light west bound traffic as buyers were waiting tariff adjustment adjust-ment Traffic was fairly heavy west bound during August and September consisting mostly of good6 held in bonded warehouses which were withdrawn with-drawn the first few das after the tariff tar-iff bill was signed New business has not materialized up to the expectation of foreign makers and steamship companies com-panies report their west bound ton-! ton-! nage has been lighter during October. November and December than it was during these corresponding months of last year when the high tariff was in effect" The country as a whole is not alarmed over the tariff changes, and the only industries hard hit are west-i west-i ru - nn |