Show READ AMU DIGEST press paper supposed 0 o bo independent in politic its editor ie the mark twain among U tali like that humorist he ia capable of stating important truths in exceedingly plain here ia a ra aiple barriers farri ers re not anny 1 ibe prices ot giacin this lall it will kite a cooil wheat at 35 cent a beibel to pay for a or boggy and not a in this vicinity will have to til th cash in tle ear future to pay for vehicle of this son that little paragraph coltaine con taine more matter to the equale inch than there is meat in an egg it tells the whole story ol 01 protection and free silver assisted by a little application ot practical philosophy plainer than gilt edged oratory or polished rhetoric it brings home to the hearthstone the consideration of the economic questions w aich ll 11 e farmers of utah ill have to decide upon at the coming election the immediate future prosperity ol 01 the new detato will depend largely upon how the decision is made A areat many farmers fir mers not only of utah but of the nation at large have been wondering liow it is eliat they leave been blessed with good crops they have not prospered they have seen the price of ft heat steadily fall until in utah it has readied the ruinous price of 35 cents per bushel they have aa beheld everything produced on the farm gradually lall until the price made farming an unprofitable occupation they have struggled on tor better times not understanding the underlying cassea chich made theofi the goone to b plucked until there was not a feather remaining but still no help came no hope of appeared in sight j the more important cause of this unnatural distress amon alie agricultural classes dates back to 1873 when silver was de the other great cause that ha given tailing price a downward anck is the adoption by lie government of practical free trade since alie silver question is not an issue in utah poli lica we will discuss he effect that threatened free trade has on the prices of all farm products and what it has to do with the prosperity of alie farmer protection keeps the workingmen of america employed at cooil when the factories and mills are nin aag the barnier geta quod prices for his wheat and everything else lie daisee money is plentiful and labor is well paid instead of wheat bein 35 cents a bushel it cornea nearer per bushel the farmer who desires to abny hundred dollar buggy can do co with bushels of wheat alie exchange is made and bogli the farmer and the manufacturer are happy when free trade comes like a killing frost and nips prosperity in the bud the of america wander in search oi employment over the land anil the machinery of hundreds of factories ernsts in idleness then alie market for alie farmers wheat is taken away mid the crop cannot be sold prices tall and fall until a bushel of wheat brings but cents can lie fanner alien buy a hundred dollar buggy for bushels of cheat does the pi ice of bugay fall in alie proportion as heat lias fallen the price of a buggy may fall to but even then it would cost the fanner bushel of wheat when wheat is cheap alie eartle does not produce twice as much it is dear an acre of land that produces 30 bus liels under protection will not produce 60 bushela under Is it the farmers are not at the prospect of 35 cent wheat 4 the anine inexorable jaw that reduces alie price of under free trade reduces alip price of everything the farmer produces in alie shape of breads luns the result in everything lie buys costs him nearly double what the boxt should 1 be and what it euch a coee ie that lie hae not to submit or o 0 i without of tree will doubt the of alie above and I 1 by pla theories try to make the fanneye believe that arve kut it wont RO down the history of the last fe wears the truth of the eliat arv trade i a policy of ruin and adversity one kimn fact is worth a volume ut theories ec the fact that TI heat brince 3 cent a bushel under free trade is enough to su every farmer hat disastrous kolii y |