Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-16

THORSDAYsF sFEBRUAHY Y 16s 1855
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Editor Morning Call: In a very learned
editorial on tariff matters, in the San Fran
cisco Eraminer of yesterday, one OF those
far-seeing free-trade editorials, peculiar to
that paper, appears the following dazzling
prOpOsition: 'If there were country which
could produce everything cheaper than the
United States, and If it had an equal ad-
vantage over us in everything, it would not
trade with us. 1t would have no induce
ment to do so We should have nothing to
offer it except money and money cannot
carry on the great bulk of national trade
There Is logic for you! l suppose this is
meant to be settler on the question OF
free woOl-free open DOORS for the intro
duction of wool from all parts OF the
w0rld-as proposed by Messrs. Cleveland
for instance, or any other foreign country,
were in the position suggested by
the paper referred to, and could
raise tons and tons of wool for export, and
the United states, what an idiotic idea it
would be for such country to refuse to ship
1t to the United States because 1t could only
get paid for it in mOney-that Is, good solid
gold, which is standard for all National
There would be no 'idiotic idea" about it,
but the wool would come in and the money
would go out, and the country at large
our home woolgrowers be crippled in their
industries and eventually forced out OF the
market.
Will our farmers and agriculturists, our
wo0lgrOwers of the Democratic class--l say
Dem rcratic because l am Atraight-out my
Sc twill these men support and ADVOCATES
p0liticfl idea that is to fleece them individ-
ually fvr the benefit of a more favored class,
the manufacturers Iopine not.
The Democratic leaders running in that
groove had better call halt, and that soon.
A. NJ.
Now this A. M. fellow has not yet
gotten up early enough in the morn
ing to grasp all the intricacies of the
tariff problem. He thinks the above
screed settles the whole question, and
doubtless so do many who have read
it. But it does nothing of the sort /;
and right here is where all of his
kind 60 astray. They assume that
high tariff, low tariff or no tariff are
all the elements entering into any
commercial problem or any industrial
proposition. But the protective tariff
"a only one of the elements, and moi
the most important by any means.
In answer to what he considers
such q clincher let US take Great
Britain, Brazil and the United States.
Suppose steel rails to be the com-
modify England has to sell. They
pay duty on entering our ports. AS
sumo for the sake of the argument that
they m ay enter Brazil duty free and
that there is an equally brisk demand
at the same price for the rails in both
purchasing countries. Take it for
granted that Brazil will pay for
the goods in gold coin, and
that the United States will pay
for the goods in breadstuffs
and provisions. Then the whole
financial problem will hinge on the
relative loss sustained by the
payment of our tariff and that
sustained by ships returning from
Brazil to Liverpool in ballast.
1t might be that it would pay better
to come to New York, pay the duty
end load back with wheat, than to go
to Rio and return home empty. That
would settle which would be the
best market. We repeat this is where
the high tariff advocates purposely
seek to mislead the people. They try
to create the impression that, the
worlds industries hinge entirely on
that cne element in the problem.
All we ask is that the
tariff be reduced to meet the
actual wants of the Cover nment.
The present schedule is the result OF
war necessities. Whoever before heard
Of taxation for it's own sake! There
are industries in this country which
need protection. There are others
which have been protected into so
robust . life that they can now take
care of themselves. There are others
which are being strangled by unwise
protection. Let us have the schedule
revised. Out down the imposts on
strong industries which do not need
further protection. Remove the restric-
tions from those which are suffering
from unwise tariff trammels. Increase
those which may need such measures.
But do not tell US that taxation in it.
relf is good that the more we are
taxed the richer we get; that sche-
dule once established is like the laws
written in vermilion which it is sac
rileee to touch. Trade and industry
ase most complicated, many-sided
problems and no correct solution is
possible, which eliminates at the out
IT any Of the factors which go to pro-
duce the result. Let us get beneath
fhSwords to the things they stand for
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