The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21
TARIFF REFORMS.

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser, which was bowling itself hoarse
a few years ago for the home market"
humbug, has veered around with Presi-
dent Mckinley Until it is steering in
a Decline for the port of foreign trade.
1t hasn't been more than eight years
since William Mckinley, at whose heels
a pack of papers like the Commercial
Advertiser closely follows. was saying:
1. That American manufacturers
were not able to reach the foreign
market.
:. That the Photographic copies of
their advertisements in foreign papers.
showing that they were selling their
wares abroad cheaper than they were
to home consumers, were fraudulent.
, That the American laborer could
not compete with the pauper labor of
Europe or the coolie labor of Asia.
4. That the British system was a
delusion and a snare and hat in
dustrial competition with foreign
countries could only be entertained by
a Tory and a British sympathizer.
In witness whereof the British flag
was made a campaign document, called
a Democratic emblem. and the preju-
dice Of school children was inflamed
against Great Britain and the revenue
tariff party of this country by Nc
Kinleyites who unfurled a streamer to
the breeze bearing the legend:
American goods for American
markets. Down with foreign trade.
Up with the tariff wall"
But. as the clown remarked. times
be changed" Where is William Nc
Kinley today? The Herald told on
Saturday. The Tribune said on Sun
day:
President McKinley's speech before
the Boston Commercial club establish
that he has believed the sycophants
around him. and imagines that it was
because he was elected and the gold
standard permanently established that
prosperity came. He seems to have
silver overheard entirely. and
that he has lost faith in the tariff. His
friends ought to pray for one more
famine abroad and n more great crop !
home. He viii need something of
the kind when again in a national cleo
tlon the people get a chance at the
polls. The rule is that when the fish
do not bite, the fishermen vote the op-
position ticket.
Where is the Commercial Advertiser?
is what it says:
When Great Britain finds foreign
competition crowding her to the wall
n one branch OF industry she turns
another. She can do this more
readily, perhaps, than some other coun-
.ries because her commercial policy
the last half century has taught
her industrial self-reliance. She has
accustomed herself to the buffetinss of
competition both at home and !.
abroad American industry is under
similar experience. A few de-
AIDES ago American exports consisted
argely of raw cotton; hen wheat was
added to the list. and now American
meats and manufactured articles. par
icularly steel and iron. are swelling
'apidly the volume OF American ex-
'orts. In all probability American cot
goods Will next take a front rank
.mong American products demanded by
he old world.
American manufacturers and pro-
lucers are not only able to enter for
ign markets and compete with the
manufacturers and producers of other
entering such fields. but
americans have demonstrated their
.bility to produce articles for export.
'ay the expense of handling many
INES and of railroad transportation.
tand the outlay and delay of. ship
ing across the ocean, pay the tribute
xacted by high tariff countries in
Europe, and still make a profit in the
cry dooryard of the so-called
pauper labor" of the old world.
Read what this Mckinley organ of
lew York says further upon this
opic: ,
The effectiveness of American in /.
ustrial competition with Germany has !
areiy been stated more clearly than I
l a speech delivered in the reichstag l
n Saturday by the German secretary I
~ the interior. 1t is not surprisinyr {
lat our iron and steel foods. as well !
5 boots and shoes. have been able n q.
Roadway in German markets
ut textile industries also are feeling Z
le pressure of our competition. and
lis is remarkable when il is consid-
ed that this is the line in which Ger h.
an competition has been most feared !
u oWn markets. 1t is known that p
erman processes of manufacture in o
.rtain lines of textile goods are more b
iVanced and economical than else I
here. and this admission in the reich :
ag is, therefore, n Of the most i
gnificant tributes ever paid tor Amer- h