| Show USUAL democratic EVASION the democh democratic tic organ in salt lake speaking doubt doubtless less under inspiration from an ogden source because vie e have heard of the same talk emanating from ogden democrats takes THE tile STANDARD to task for making a tariff picture out of a comparison between the wages paid bricklayers in england and tha the wages paid bricklayers in america if there ie Is anything we like about the aforesaid democratic organ it Is the promptness the fairness and the logic with which it snaps up a and proceeds to set it to rights the tariff picture which it objects to this time was only published by THE STAI on the alb last so in this instance the democratic lightning striker has been rather more expeditious than usual As specimens of its fairness we note that 1 it speaks of our pitiable ignorance and moat astounding impudence c calls us as an amateur and intimates that we are crazier than thin tha the craziest protectionist and finally as the un on kindest cut of all accuses us of furnishing logic by which it says it proves that free trade makes wages i high and a high tariff makes h wages low its logic may be sufficiently understood from a single 1 sample ready made brick looses houses are not imported and do not have to pay A any tariff therefore the protective tariff does not help the american bricklayer well our oar ignorance will not b be 0 removed 14 by any such stuff as the he t ire heralds elocutionary cyclopedia has been unwinding on this plain matter of bricklayers wages if to be an amateur means meana to have only a portion of the intelligence and the sense with which the world is filled we are proud to acknowledge the title for we are in good company nearly everybody is an amateur except the herald free trader be knows atall it all under that bat hat of his be he carries all the wisdom of 0 every statesman t all the figures of every e v ry ants sta statistician c tan all the arcuni arguments 1 of every orator or author who has championed free trade since the world began it is double distilled condensed compressed and concentrated I 1 and makes up the gray matter of the tb one email small brain that is demolishing protection day by day for tha the delectation of a select coterie of readers adera re but the possessor of that mighty intellect twit us with our ignorance even a cat may look at a kingl we never kne knew bufore alx lx ore how much 7 we liked that ta tariff ri ir t itura turc until just now bat it improve ion provi a on acquaintance in view ol 01 the heralds sunday contortions orar it we are almost tempted to reproduce it this much we will eay say that the c comparison om pari between bricklayers wages in this country and in england was introduced trod with a suggestion that the workingmen being the ones whose ballots elected presidents and controlled policies merethe were the ones cosay to eay whether their labor should be degraded to the starvation bazes paid abroad or whether r by protecting our home industries and home manufactures they would make mak e it possible for a laboring man to leed feed and clothe his family and live like a civilized independent being befog instead of like a pauper or a mere beast of burden to this the herald can make no better reply than to flippantly inform os us that brick walls are not articles of import and ready made houses do not come under onder the tariff schedule such shallow sophistry is unworthy even of 0 the herald practically it says a coun arys prosperity makes no dixe difference rence in its working mena mens wages it might as well say that the protective tariff does not help the weavers the ironworkers iron workers the tinsmiths the silk bilk growers or any of the other trades ai as to say it does not help the bricklayers it admits that the latter get good wages because their labor is in demand well what mikes it in demand and how long would it be in demand it if the wool ral raisers sers weavers iron workers tinsmiths and all the others were thrown out of employment by the flooding of our markets with the pauper made products of the old world will the herald oracle lay down his cyclopedia long enough to look a plain business proposition in the face long enough to explain if he can why if general prosperity is enhanced and fostered bya by a certain policy all classes of citizens are not benefited by that policy or of will be he go on twisting and torturing facts and making stupid grimaces over s lly ily technicalities it the latter the thousand copies of bis his sunday edition which are gratuitously distributed tri buted around in ogden and weber county to people who dont want it would better all be sent to the paper mill at once if be will try to le reasonable and speak of things as they are be may find a few readers even though thesa these have to keep down their gorge and cast aside their glances while stretching their arms over a I 1 late ate bloody chasm |
