Show A SOUTHERN CONVERT the only view which democrats may justly take on the tariff question is this tariff for protection must ha abolished because it is unconstitutional that ie the plain doctrine of the chicago platform achen democrats talk ot moderate revision a judicious tariff going right ahead with revision or as the salt lake herald says go ahead and do what appears to be right they dodge the issue and plainly intimate that the robber tariff that culminating atrocity the mckinley law has not the same terrors to them as it lad in 1892 they have learned a lesson since that time and are bce inning to comprehend the truth of tho republican doctrine that a protective tariff is our countree coun trye best financial friend we are led to this conclusion from the position taken by the nashville american a royal democrat in all things tree trade included until very recently it changed its mind when the ways and i means committee proposed putting irot ore and coal on the free list that the americans interests and with that its tune is changed and il proceeds to give its readers some sound doctrine approaching alie republican speaking of the free coal and iron it says thie coal must come from nova scotia and of course the water rates of transportation will be very light the iron it is proposed to bring from cuba and spain because of the location of the coal deposits on the island of cuba it will be about as near to philadelphia as to southern ports it is the intention for this ore to be used on the eastern atlantic seaboard and probably in connection with the nova scotia coal upon this state of facts let us examine into the probable results this country has within the past few years the largest iron producing country in the world and its capacity lias been demonstrated to be over tons per annum at present we are not consuming over one third of that amount all tho iron that haa been and is being produced in this country is being manufactured from our own raw materials of which fortunately we have the greatest abundance we do not need either the ore or the coal to enable u to produce all the iron this country could possibly me the value of both coal and ore as it lies undeveloped in the ground is very small practically all the costs of mining manufacturing the coal into coke and preparing the oie for use with transporting them to the furnace consists of labor labor comprises more than four fifths of the cost of pig iron at present all this labor is performed by americans should ore and coal be admitted free of duty this labor would be performed by foreigners and in foreign countries and all laborers now engaged in mining preparing and transporting these materials in this country would bo out of employment wherever the introduction of these foreign materials would close the markets to our own products the only people who would bo benefited would be the owners of blast furnaces on our eastern seaboard and such capitalists as may contemplate the construction of works in that locality they aro attempting to protect themselves against the competition of their own countrymen democrats have heretofore argued that protection fosters trusts and enriches capitalists in the above we have a striking democratic argument showing how free iron and coal would do that utah is in the bame position as the in regard to her wool and coal industries dus tries wool on the free list would enrich the foreign perhaps eastern manufacturer and the australian cheep raiser to the annihilation of our sheep business and the impoverishment of our people who make nearly two million dollars annually out of that industry coal on the free list would enricki the british interests at vancouver and give the foreign miner the money that now goes to the thousands in this territory and surroundings alio are engaged in delving in the mountains for alio bituminous substance tho tens of thousands of tons which this territory now ships to san francisco in case of free coal would come from vancouver instead to be used by the furnaces and corporation locomotives of the pacific coast to enrich them and impoverish us our miners would depart for british america to work for foreign low wages and utah coal fields would dwindle undeveloped and with them her farms mines and other industries the democratic doctrine according to the chicago platform is free trade absolute but sensible democrats with their own and interests at heart will heed the election and cry out to the bosses at washington do not tinker wih the tariff if you do how long will we continue to kiss the rod that smites us TREE confident of succeeding in having the duty on lead taken off the coast manufacturers seem in favor of this action but it will be death to the mining industries of the west including utah IT APPEARS that war in africa bombardment bar dment in brazil insurrection attempts in mexico coupled with divers other calamities winds inundations and storms are not afflictions enough for our old earth but it must in addition suffer from internal strife in persia a thousand people are reported perished in the earthquakes which aro visiting that land OUR in ogden valley have always been foremost in terpsichorean art but heretofore they havo contented themselves with living classies lassies las sies blooming and beautiful as they are now however at least one man has changed to mechanical forms the wires bring the information from washington that nils Christi anion of was on tuesday last granted a patent for a dancing toy THE MAIK point in the hawaiian question upon which secretary gresham based his conclusions that led him to proclaim the restoration of is that the united states helped to dethrone her he gathers tills information from the report of mr blount a private detective of president cleve lands apparently sent to ahn islands to gather facts in favor of tho queen regardless gard less of the accredited representatives of the nation the reply to mr blount by minister thurston published yesterday is a severe rebuke to the private agent and to his wild assertions ia flatly contradicted by mr thurston who that neither minister stevena nor tho marines the cause of the revolution but eliat it was brought about by the queen herself who demanded certain privileges that her subjects would not concede to her there was no prearranged agreement between minister stevens and tho committee in regard to tho revolution minister stevens has yet to be heard arora if all thia discussion had been permitted before minister willia was IA sent on his last enthroning mission would have been better for the country alie american people will not tolerate such secrecy as president cleveland appears to have thought necessary in this matter so far it beems clear that mr blounts report has no bearing on tho right of our administration to the present government of hawaii |