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Show p0R SALE Good Jonithan. Pear-ma'ti, Pear-ma'ti, and Wolf river apples; or will "change for potatoes or oats, g George Sorensen. p0R SALE A good fat hog. j Hans L. Lund, Sr. " WHAT ALL SANPETE VOTERS SHOULD KNOW! SUGAR, WOOL AND LEAD As Utah is one of the great beet-sugar and wool-producing states, the tariff rates imposed by the Fordney-McCumber Fordney-McCumber act are of more than ordinary interest at this time because of the impending election. The sugar rate is higher than the duty provided under the Underwood measure passed during the administration of President "Wilson, when the Democrats in congress conceded that' the beet-sugar industry needed and was entitled to protection. protec-tion. As everyone knows, the Utah sugar manufacturers : and beetgrowers cannot compete, without protection, with 1 their cane rivals who make sugar in the tropical and semi-tropical semi-tropical islands at a very low cost. The present discussion is over high rates or low rates. Utah people, having had i considerable experience, .are almost unanimously of the opinion that the Fordney-McCumber rate is none too high if the industry is to be fully protected- which they assume to be the intention; of the framers of the law. They do not believe in half way measures when their future prosperity pros-perity is at stake, and the same is true of the well-informed people of Idaho, Colorado, California and other beet-sugar-producing states. "W'e are firmly of the opinion that the existing rate is none to high and that to lower it would I mean the impairment, if not the destruction, of one of Utah's chief industries. This is also true of the duty on wool. The industry , must be adequately protected or perish. Utah flock-1 flock-1 masters cannot compete with the woolgrowers of Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and other foreign countries with far larger ranges and much cheaper labor. Free trade in wool has been tried and found wanting. The area of grazing lands in the United States is being curtailed : year by year and the cost of producing wool is constantly ( increasing. Should the people of this country again j decide in favor of free wool, the Utah flockmasters would j be compelled to abandon the field to their foreign rivals. This would mean that the price of clothing and woolen j goods would not only go up, but stay up for all time to I come, for we should be completely at the mercy of the sheep-i sheep-i men living in other lands. Therefore, it is to the ultimate j interest of all of the people of the United States, as well as to those of us who live in Utah and other wool-produc-i ing commonwealths, to maintain the present rates. We I are not arguing from a selfish viewpoint. Figure it out in any manner you please and the result is the same, j Lead is still another Utah product which needs ample protection if our mines and smelters continue in operation, i Tn times roast, the state derived a great share of its wealth from the mines, and they are still producing. Without protection of the home product lead from Mexico and other countries where labor is cheap would swamp the market and Utah would suffer great damage. So far as we know there is very little objection to the tariff on lead, but it - is just as well to give the facts in the case lest some people foro-et to stand up for their. own interests at the polls. Utah is undoubtedly destined to become a groat manufacturing manu-facturing state. We have the raw materials and the pluck and enterprise to produce pig iron and fabricate steel, and we are about to enter upon a new era of prosperity pros-perity But while we are hailing the advent of the iron and steel industry, let us not forget the sugar, wool, lead and other industries of the state which have been our mainstay in the past. Tribune. i wTiv SHOULD PEOPLE THINK OF VOTING AGAINST THEIR OWN INTERESTS? Vote The Republican Ticket! (Political Advertisement.) I LOST on October 21, between Fair-I Fair-I view and Indianola, a brown suit 'case containing two suits of clothes. some underwear and toilet articles. Finder, please return the same to I Bishop H. P. Hansen of Fiarview and receive reward. "YOU ALL KNOW BURT" There is a law in this state which provides funds for the partial support of widowed mothers who are dependent upon their own efforts for the maintainence of their children. child-ren. It is the duty of the County Commissioners each year to provide funds sufficient to meet the purposes of this law, and they are allowed to provide in Sanpete County clone, 510,000.00 for this purpose. This year the County Commissioners levied a tax of two tenths cf a mill on the taxable property in Sanpete County for this purpose. Now then dependent mothers have you been given your share of the above fund for the maintainence of your children, or are you among the majority supporting and maintaining your own children? You are entitled to relief, and your only opportunity is on election day by casting your ballot tor J. B. (BURT) SEELY for County Commissioner of Sanpete County. Remember the name! , "YOU ALL KNOW BURT" Election day, November 7th. 'r;'il1 Advt.) j """jTbT-(BURT) SEELY "XJ TZLlL |