Show A republican HEREAFTER I 1 once addressed as an ignorant democrat I 1 cow write you as a conscientious democrat belaev inn democracy gives our republic the president ex harrison reported in his cheyenne speech as babinc said speaking of the industrial army 1 I believe if the republican policies bad not been threatened we should not have bad this appalling manifestation I 1 have never seen how a policy could open and crowd the work shops of the old countries and at the sanio time keep ours busy mr editor I 1 conscientiously believe ahai protection american protection closes american work shops an 1 reduces american operatives wages mr editor if you mil demonstrate that republican protection on iron and wool will open and crowd the american work shops and increase or maintain the wages of american operatives I 1 will vole a republican ticket at our next election coonz if mr cooke really reeks for light on this subject we believe he can easily be convinced that protection creates work for the american people let us look at this question at home there are several tailor shops in ogden not one of then uses utah cloth if you dweire a snit of clothes made from utah wool by utah workmen you cannot have it done in ogden yet the tailor shops all have imported woolen goods Is it not a fact mr booke that if the five tailors in this city would use utah roods exclusively instead of the goods they now buy in the east and in europe that more men would be put to work in the woolen mills of utah Is it not a fact that if all the clothing houses in ogden were to put tailors to work and manufacture all the clothing they sell from cloth made from utah wool by utah work men that from fifty to sixty more men would be pot to work at the woolen mills in utah and two times that many in the v tailor shops to work up the cloth Is it not a fact that if every man woman and child in utah tomorrow should say they will only wear clothes made of cloth from utah wool and made in utah by utah workman that to 1000 hands would be put to work at bouce to weave cloth to meet the demand suppose that every man in the united stales should decide tomorrow that he would only wear clothes made in the united states idies mr cooke know how many men would have to bo worked to weave the cloth 1 was the amount of manufactured woolen goods that were imported during the year of 1893 it was about ten million dollars more for wa and it Is estimated that it will be over fifty dollars this year and if the wilbon bill becomes a law it will be over one hundred million dollars per year now does mr cooke believe that it will shut up the american workshops to make the worth of woolen goods in america does mr booke believe that to make these goods at home instead of in europe will reduce the wages of the american laborer if eo then mr cookes idea is that the more idle workmen there are and he less work there is to do the higher will be the price of wages TUB and the party claim that an abundance of work to be performed with a scarcity of laborers raises the price of wages hut you will say is that american protection tec tion we answer yes because protection decreases the importations and increases the home production for instance the government reports for the year ending june 30 1893 show that the yearly average wage for one man in the woolen mills in england was in massachusetts it will thus be seen that the woolen mills in massachusetts pay more than double the wages that are paid in england now then if england Is allowed to ship her goods in to massachusetts free can not england manufacturers undersell the mills in massachusetts what doe that mean it either means tor the bassa fiill owner to reduce the wages to scale or close the mill and throw the men ont of employment now then the republican party favors placing a tax on all good shipped to this country from england or any other country high so that the american manufacturer after double the wages paid in england still can undersell the engllish goods does mr cooke favor that if not then he favors cutting alie wages of american people to BO cents berday the policy is that it is better to buy from your neighbor who you suppose cooke is running a bat factory in ogden and Is men suppose that there ie no duty on wool hate and italy sends over hat and sells them to all the merchants in ogden cheap enough ad that the merchants can sell the bats for less money than it costs mr cooke to mate his hats how long will mr cooke continue to run his factory on the other baad if the united states charges italy a tax which is jut ference between the wages mr cooke pays and which the italian hat maker pay then mr cookes hat is on an equal footing with the foreign hat and the people can take their choice or if the fore iRti manufacturer is charged 10 per cent more than the cost of wages that mr booke could undersell the italian hat that is the way protection works does mr cooke still think protection reduces waives by the way that is a very peculiar assertion of mr cookes he seems to stand alone there the democratic leaders in congress have admitted a thousand times that protection raises wages and that under free trade wages would so down but that everything else would go down also this latter portion of the last assertion the republicans deny and very successfully cess fully too but mr cooke may say that he meant raw wool not manufactured wool very well then let us see if utah 1 benefited by protection on raw wool first there is no doubt that utah has huud rede ot thousands of acres of ground that are fit for nothing except to graze we find in senator fera speech just delivered in congress that utah had in that the utah clip amounted to about pounds which under republican laws by democratic legislation would bring but which under the democratic free trade policy brought last year only two thirds of that amount here there 11 a net loss to utah of over a million dollars how can free trade pay that million dollars to utah we find that the people of utah consume annually pounds of wool ii the shape of clothing admitting that the woolen clothing will be reduced in the same ratio as the wool which we do not how much do the people of utah make on free wool let ns see we sell pounds of wool at a loss of 13 cents per pound which we buy pounds of wool in clothing at a reduction of 13 cents per pound which amounts to so then arross loss on wool under democratic free trade is less reduction or savane in clothing net loss en free trade policy it will bo been from this that afier admitting all the democrats claim that if wool goes down under free trade and that woolen clothing will go down in the same ratio that utah is in the soup for one and one tenth million dollars there may be some excuse for south carolina wanting free trade on wool or some other state that does abot raise wool but a utah man who wants free trade on wool either wants to drive the sheep out of utah or lie dont understand the benefit that derives from its wool product now a word in regard to states where no wool is raised these states might be bene fitted by free wool if the price of clothing is reduced in the samo ratio as wool would be reduced wool has gone down on an average in the whole west 12 cents or about two thirds of the full price has been reduced does anybody think that woolen clothing will be two thirds the wool in a suit of clothing is the smallest part of its value the labor covers nine tenths of the entire value of a suit of clothes it is estimated that each person in the united states uses seven and one third pounds of wool each year here then we find that if each man got the full benefit of free wool he would make less than 00 cents for the whole year but does the consumer get the benefit of this 90 cents the democrats say yes the gay no the latter say that the manufacturer fac the jobber the wholesale and the retail dealer will get it all for instance this free trade reduction on wool will make a reduction of one thirdy of one cent on a pair of stockings will the wife and mother when she anteia the store to buy a pair of stock ines beet a third of a cent off on the 40 cent stockings will alie clerk mark the 40 cent down to sa cents how about a fine wool shirt which weighs oue half pound and tells for the reduction on that should be cents will the clothing mark that down to will the 5 belt hat be marked down to will the ladles fine wool or cashmere glove which sold last year for 1 be sold this ea r for 9 9 10 cents does it not appear to say that the utah people are benefited by free wool we hope mr cooke is honest in his intentions when he asks for information so he could vote the republican ticket tomorrow we will tell him how protection on iron works |