The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-26
ORIENT is AT STAKE.
IS NOT PLAYING
ALONE FOR TRADE OF THE
PHILIPPINES
Mr.. TAWNEY TALKS TARIFF
Cited If an Attempt Is Made by
Amy of the Powers to Control the
Trade of China by Means of
Preferential Duties-PrOgramme
Is Arranged.

Trade of China by Means of
Preferential Duties-Programme
Is Arranged.
WASHINGTON. Nov 25.-Represen-
| tative Tawrey, OF Minnesota, of the
ways and means committee, makes no
| secret of the intention of the leaders
| to create a complete Individual tariff
system for the Philippines in accor-
dance with the "open door" policy of
! the proposed treaty. He says:
| Our tariff policy adopted for and
enforced in those colonies will be opera
| tive against everybody. 1t will not
1 mean a policy Of free trade by any
means; 1t will mean, in my judgment,
equality and the entire absence Of pre-
| ferential duties
LAS we are not to allow the products
| of these colonies to enter our ports
| free Of duty it will be necessary for
! US to adopt some system of tariff which
will tend to encourage trade with the
| United States, while at the same time
| preserving our markets as we do now
| under our system Of protection.
Il do not believe that the colonies will
! be Of any great value to US for trade
! purposes for many years to come. U1ti-
mately / have no doubt we will derive
lateral benefit from trade with them.
| To my mind the greatest advantage to
| US in THAR possession is in the protec-
| ton to our trade in Asia, Australasia,
and the Orient, and the encoura cement
which will be afforded to Americans
| to extend their trade in that quarter
of the globe by having at the gateway
of that commerce the physical presence
! OF the sovereignty and power of the
| United States.
| While European nations are endeav-
! m in
! tain in that part of the world tributary
to the Indian and Pacific oceans the
| physical evidence of their power for
! the encoura cement Of their people en-
| gagged in trade, II would be a great mis-
! take for the United States If we did not
avail ourselves of this opportunity to
secure for the sale of our surplus prod
| ucts, at least west OF the Mississippi
| river, our share OF this market"
ORIENT AT STAKE.
Behind the open door policy for the
| Philippines, as laid down in the pro-
! pcsals of the American commissioners
! at Paris, is a much more important
move in the great game of information
| al politics. President Mckinley ard his
cabinet are not nearly so much con-
cerned in the developments of Ameri-
| can trade with the Philippines as they
! are in the direction of building up
| close commercial relations with China
| and the Orient generally.
| The open door which has been so
| frequently referred to is therefore to
| be in the nature of an entering wedge,
or of an international precedent, as the
! result of which 1t is hoped with the
| cooperation Of Great Britain, to es-
tahlish commercial status in the East
| which will prevent preferential duties
and place all nations on an equal foot
ing.
Great Britain's interest in the nego
tiations at Paris largely centers around
! this open door for the Philippines for
! with such an example set by a nation
| supposed to be welded to the protective
| tariff policy as is the United States it
! Will be possible to enforce the open
| door theory for the Pacific coast of Asia
! much more easily than If Great Britain
alone, an avowed supporter of free
| trade, should attempt the experiment
! President McKinleys administration
/ is heartily In accord with Queen Vic
! toria'S government in the belief that
| the time is not far distant when China
| will either be split up among the
| European nations or else reduced 20
! condition where they will dictate It's
| foreign policy.
Maj. Mckinley is therefore looking to
the vast trade of China much more
| than to the restricted commerce of the
| Philippines, and by establishing COM
mercial equality in the conquered ISL
ands he will put himself in position
to demand that the same principle shall
| be applied to China and the Orient
generally when the breakup comes
There is no distinct secret under
! standing between the United States
| and Great Britain on this point but
the leaders Of the two countries have
| been sounded to such an extent as to
| make it certain that the United States
| will back up Great Britain in it's open
| door policy for China, and will point
to its own action in the Philippines as
| an evidence of good faith.
AGAINST AMERICA.
Further than this. it may be said
that the tariff which will be created
for the Philippines and which will
! operate against the United States the
same as other countries, will not be a
protective tariff as the term is under
stood in this country. Commercial and
industrial conditions in the Philippines
will make it necessary to revise the
customs on a revenue rather than q
protecting basis.
The islands are essentially agricul-
tural and it seems almost impossible
that any general manufacturing sys-
TEN could be built up there Even if
this were possible the operation Of q
protective tariff could result only in
building up manufacturers in the ISL
and to the direct detriment Of similar
concerns in this country.
The United States can supply the ISL
ands with wheat corn, live stock and
manufactures of iron in open competi-
ton with any other country, and for
this reason, If for no other, there will
be. II is sald tariff for the islands
which will be decidedly low, and
| therefore a revenue producer, so that
the Philippines will be in no sense a
burden to this country, but surely self
supporting and possibly a source OF
profit.
The Dingiey law, for instance, will