The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-14
1NTERAMERICAN TARIFFS.
p,y.IMERICANS CALI OUR PEND
ING RILL a MENACE.
-..,,re Frro Traders. Many OF Theu-Can't
,rdcr.tand our Taxing Their naw Material
which we Misunderstanding Predict Loss
=, IL, but Not. Generally, Retaliation.

pnenos Ayrcs, Argentine Republic. that II this
country insist on imposing high tariff duties on
,bc EXPORTS from his country the Argentine Re-
ssrh,i, will ~rctaliate by imposing high import
Sn,ies on the exports of this country to Argen-
tina. was talked about yesterday q good deal by
Tho delegates from the South American coun-
,,I.a who haze bccn visiting New York for n
vcek and by he business men who have been
,n,.rtainirg them. The delegates said that
Tho feeling in the countries from which :hcy
.,ne was pretty hard against tho proposed
,.ris. but they did not come out as fat
footed about retaliation as Senior Lix Kleet
h,d done. These delegates all represent
c,untries which have large products in
Ebs shape OF raw materials which they have
s.s.en exporting to the United States, and which
have been received here and admitted free of
t,pty heretofore, but which under the new tariff.
IN Il is adopted, are to pay duty. Tho delegates
Lrent their last day sightseeing yesterday, and
left the city early last evening for q trip up the
Jsound TO Fall River, where they will visit the
5~,mmense cotton goods factories that make much
n the goods that arc exported to their own
countries. They were q busy lot all day. A
week in the city had been too short q time to see
.e things that they wanted to see. and they
made the most OF their last day getting glimpses
o,morc things.
When the delegates came here, ono OF the
marty SAID yesterday. luey Caluo ~ Z III uOO
N criticisc, but they found that criticism was
mot regarded as impolite in this country, and that
Nvasoften invited and then was we'll received.
This discovery was made at the dinner given at
The Hotel Waldorf on Thursday night, when Senior
pomero. the Mexican Minister. responding to
the toast, Our Commercial Relation with Our
sister Republics for Senator Elkins, who was
moi present, took several cracks ut the proposed
tSriS. He said that protection carried to the
extreme necessarily curtails business, and i de-
ens the volume OF foreign trade:
%Considcr, said he, 1.-THE wool that Argentina
sends TO you. II you bar that out by a protective
eSort 10 buy your goods. Look at another effect:
We produce in Mexico silver lead ore. The
can capital and men. and they shipped the raw
product into this country free of duty; Then
country. and going TO Washington secured a pro-
hibitiye tariff on the raw material hat came
t from sSi Is' to supply this country's demand.
What was the RESULT The owners OF the Next
shifp pig lead, a manufactured product, into this
country. and this country lost that manufacture
ing industry.
Is not 10 ~obstruct importations by building walls
around the country, Tor you may be certain that
]eorta,ions viii be spent in this. country for
American manufactured products"
delegates, and they have been doing some Of
It on their own account ever since. That Of
seHO The Id frs h11 pubic Rs'n Criticism ea NIB ho SSS se''f It Ws;
supplemented ysstertsy ey Csgt, Sordearo "a
Graz Sssas. d 5sfSs e d tfI@ she 4. 9 f he dCSoSmnIm esU Nh.
scum in Philadelphia, like his fellows, the Cap
tain is n special delegate from his Government
TO investigate the manufacturing industries OF
the United States and the trade conditions here:
BE is TO study all Of the products Of the United
States and to see what use can be made of them
IN Brazil. For this purpose he intends spending
FIVE or six months in the country after the other
delegates have returned to their homes; He
Liz kleet, who had said:
Turn about is fair play, and accordingly we
have all cabled TO our countries stating the con-
dition Of affairs that exists here. The result Will
Be that the goods which now enter free viii have
tsmpt will be useless. England and Russia will
supply US with what we need. 1t is a shame that
this country does not listen TO Us. The American
flag is seldom seen in our ports. Forty or hfty
no American bank in Buenos Ayres, and what
little business we do with the United States
S Sass Dc wb fSbe are th Tegy hum Ing letei En-. S SsH enteF
woods and hides free OF duty; that is all. We do
Capt. Da Graca read this once again and then
said: That is absolutely true; That is Just the
&C. fS%n did Sot OF un aaalss; f the poliey' Of 9s p seie thas
ap sIfnP!i ne l. By the PROPOSED posed new Nv ,b ,sF nm
that has spoken. The condition Of things there
Is ash is in the Argentine. We raise the same
products and export them raw to this country.
Your manufacturers turn them into manufac'
tured products. They must have our raw ma
terial to make into those products. and yet you
a Mn sfS Ta~ m and ma nn9 say IT pFS We eI ySGt
the raw material also TO England and to Ger,
many, and there IL Is made into the manufactured
products. They DO not tax the raw material,
hence the manufacturers get 1t cheaper; They
can maze the manntactured article ana sell II
lspeak plainly. Business Is not sentiment, and
this IS business. We in the. south American
Countries are friendly to the United States. We
honestly want closer commercial relations with
the people OF your country. We came here as
hope that we might be able TO bring about q
closer commercial union. Your people wan
hinder it,"
Continuing. the delegate argued that II Eng
land and OtLer European countries let in raw
material free and the manufacturers In those
Countries were able 10 produce cheaper than the
United states. hen they would produce more
toners, because they would have TO buy more o.
The raw materials. The country that bought the
most u raw material would naturally get tho
most OF the trade that the country providing thu
raw material bad 10 give
ns s~i sR? sRs I Fs5oIi9iins. % tSF GGF B hish p 1H1t5'
nish duty on our exportsr
could not say that was the reply, blu
,he would have the excuse TO do 1t, and self-pro
sctlon is a law Of nature. You now propose &c
a or coffee and II has not been taxed before
'gHantFy Will DO II you tax our coffee"
would be reduced in this country IS per cent
and the coffee growers OF Brazil would lose th'
w.. - - N,Nl Nv IL MS dllIulIoh wa
called to the fact that the Brazilian Government
tseii mad taxed the coffee that 1t exported. II
,,gtpISd that the coffee exported was taxed b.
se hFaEilian Government to raise the revenu
hecessary, to pay the bonds OF the railroads tina
hAd been built: The building OF these railroad
nSa cheapened the transportation OF the COTE
IAe seaports, and the tax imposed added L
Me present transportation charge was no
searIy 50 much as had been the cost OF trans
HI.allon by mules. which was the manner o
built. ~ Wa
kelurning again to the friendly relations be
t,sneeh N" TWO countries, Capt. Graca said tina
x qesiFc sor closer commercial relations witt
" w J. hited states was the desire OF the peopl
hraz!I, entirely independent OF any feeling o
W. Goytrau!ent. IT Is tho friendship OF tn
kopie That IL valuable, he said. They hav
" Hotee. The Government can be turned out.
NJ thought that this friendship was being i'm
ka"Ien ~ the proposed tax on coffee and Of
AZ raw products OF his country. and that tn
S sn"i Tor retaliation might come from tn
lap, GTaca talked OF the reception the deic
ksS5hal mere, and said that everywhere the
S Su hearu the hope expressed that the tariff oil
Ia 'DutH american gpDIl Nynnld Gnnn M TlanupI