The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-17
Exhibits at Paris.
HAVEMEYER'S TALK THE TEXT
Upon which Ait Kinds Of Ec0nOmi.
Sermons are Preached

Upon which AL NtndS OF EcOnOnlI &
Sermons are Preached.
New York, June 16.-The Herald says:
! Opinions widely different are being ex-
| pressed in this city in regard to the state
ment of Henry o. Havemeyer, president
| Of the American Sugar Refining company,
| before the Industrial commission at Wash
! ington recently.
Senator Thomas c. Plat said: Mr.
| Havemeyer expresses the views OF a Dem
ocrat and his statement was in the inter-
est of the Democratic party"
Edward NJ. Shepard, leading attorney
for large cororations, said: 81 thoroughly
agree with the roposition that the serious
evils Of sO-called trusts and monopolies
are evils arising from the tariff system.
This general doctrine was very we'll put
by Augustus Van Wyck in his speech at
the Democratic dinner in April. What
ever excuse there may have been in the
past for the maintenance of infant indus
tries it is certain the United States has
grown far byond the usefulness, if there
eyere were any usefulness, of the extreme
protective system under which we now
live. The true warfare against monopolies
ought not to be waged by undemocratic
interference with the liberty of business,
but by dealing with the system of special
privileges created by the existing tariff "
Edward Lauterbach said: "Mr. Have
meyers statement is pregnant with ideas
that call for careful consideration by
those who shape our national policy The
acquisition of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
Philippines and what appears to be al
most the certainty of the early acquisition
of Cuba, WiNbeSet a situation, as soon as
these provinces become a part of the Unit
ed States, that will necessitate the most
careful consideration of the tariff ques-
ton. But no REPUBLICAN, would rashly and
without the most abundant consideration
advocate an alteration of existing tariffs.
Changes in tariffs, and even threats of
changes, do more to unsettle business con-
ditiOns than anything else, and even a
faulty schedule is better than agitation on
the subject unless it shall result in a pol
icy that shall be just, lasting for con-
tinued period"
Former Representative John Dewitt |
Warner one of the leading members of
the Reform club, said: ''If Mr.. Havemey- |
er imagines he can elude pursuit by crying |
y,
has made that mistake, though the accur- |
acy of his statements as to other peoples |
sins make one query as to whether, with !
a somewhat further development of verac-
ity, he may not turn out TO be a new Saul |
among the prophets. Should he once be-
come converted, his courage would make !
him invaluable. In the face of the facts |
his own conduct and the course of Sugar |
stock prices. his suggestion that he is pro- !
tected by only one-eighth of one per cent
is simply heroic. 1t IS true, however, that |
since Doescher and Arbuckle have been |
producing he has actually realized but lit
tie more than one-eighth, to which he |
owns up"
General Wagner Swayne said: There
is not a doubt in my mind that the insti-
tuition and maintenance of a protective
tariff as one of the features of the govern
ment Of this country was originally wise
and right ard has been an essential, If not /
an indispensable, factor in its growth and
welfare