The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-19
"THE BROAD VIEW.


We have lived to learn, through the in
structive medium of the tariff hearings,
that there are things invisible when
you look at them and visible only when
you look away from them. If you
search for them you will not find them,
and when you cease hunting you will
| stumble upon them. This is not the
old wisdom that cOunsels seek and ye
shall find;'' but then tariffs and hear
| ings are not things of wisdom, old or
new, unless it be that of the ass that
"knoweth its masters crib
Thus when Judge Lawrence, of Ohio,
| who will go down the ages on historic
| pages as 1.-The Ohio shepherd was ex-
| planning to the committee how Ohio
wool could be made worth so cents
a pound in the grease by a tax that
! would prohibit the importation of 1.-The
! Villainous stuff" as he characterized
/ the wool from Australia, Representa-
! tive Turner asked hin if such tax
would not raise the price of woolens
| to the consumers. I'VE must take a
! broad view," said the quidnunc of wool.
! Don't you see that, in the course of a
! few years, under such a stimulus, we
| should get to the point where we should
produce all the wool we need our
selVes?" he asked. But this seemed to
avoid the question. So Turner prodded
him again, and the shepherd explained
that latter we get our industry estab-
lished he whole people will be so pros
pero->s' that it will make no difference
| if this I1ice of their WOolens is higher
So we see that it requires a broad
view" by the consumer to enable him
to see where his benefit comes in from
| the taxation whose benefit the shepherd
sees for himself by taking what he evil
IDENTIFY and rightly would call the mar
row view
Mr.. Wilson H. Brown, Of the city Of
brotherly se1f-love, representing his
own and other wooden manufacturing
interests, was asked by Judge Turner if
the duty on wool and the compensatory
duty given Woolens, for which the
former was asking, would not increase
the price to the consumers To this
Mr.. Brown blandly assented, but as
sured the Georgia statesman that "we
must take a broad view of this SUBJ
ject." When the consumer took his
eyes off the trivial matter Of increasing
the price Of clothing and blankets and
all things made of wool, and the petty
circumstance Of the profit the manu-
facturers would make when, as Mr..
Brown said, I'VE keep the whole bust
ness in our own hands," and, lifting
them, swept the horizon in a "broad
view" he would see the compensation
he is unable to see when he looks
merely at the schedule. 1t might in
crease the price of their woolens "for
the present, admitted Mr.. Brown. 'but
the increased prosperity of everybody
under a strong protective tariff would
even up the whole thing so that nobody
would feel the difference"
There is an old story that suffered
paresis, probably, in the days of old
Rameses, to the effect that when the
White hunter proposed to divide with
his Indian companion the turkey and
the owl, the fruit of their days hunt
ing, so that the white should have the
turkey and the Indian the owl. or SO
| that the Indian should have the owl
and the white the turkey, the confused
Indian could not see where he was TO
get any of the turkey It is not told
as part Of the story that the white
| assured him that he would be able TO
| see it if he would only take broad
view of the proposition; but, in view
| Of What we have learned from these
tariff hearings, where the broad view
was so popular, the old story should
have that philosophic ending. When.
next winter, the good housewife finds
the prices of blankets and dress goods
i and stockings dearer than now. and
| the frugal bre adwinner finds clothing
sitter in price, they will find their
ample compensation in "a broad view
1 of the subject.