The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-12
New York Statesman Says the
Tariff Wall Must Fall
Returns From Europe Convinced
Protection is OverdOne.
WE CAN'T COMPETE,
The Senator Formerly Strong
est of Tariff Advocates.
Peace Conference a Farce and
Amounts to Naught.

New York, July 12-Chauncey M. De-
pew, accompanied by his son. came home
on the Campania-
Senator Depew was the one aIl-eclipsing
detail Of the Campania- The voyage viii
live in Cunard line annals as the ''Depew
trip"
Fourth Of July came at sea, and If such
a thing as lack Of patriotic fervor ex-
4sted among the cabin passengers DepeW
When at the dinner on the night of the
Fourth the Earl of DOnOughmOre, K. C.
NJ. stumbled through a long speech up 10
the point Of proposing the health Of Presi-
sprans to his feet and, returning the com
piment in a characteristi cally ,eteryes-
cent burst cried: Let US arms 70 ne5
majesty, the Queen of Great Britain and
Empress Of India"
last Wednesday. evening he made speech
appealing equally to English and ArneI1-
our fTienS during our Var wan Spain
how Englishmen loved Americans, and
how Americans reciprOcated in kind The
'ise'-1 E57WssEIsRY7ON5E TALKS OF IT.
sboH fyfn When on P2e New york S centarg
little tugbOat Despatch came alongside the
number of railroad officials were on
board the Despatch. They greeted their
OF in triumph to the foot OF East Forty
See4n1 stgSI, @nere ms 5d G 81 ag Vas
driven to his residence, No. q West Fifty
fourth street There DR.. Depew received
his interviewer.
In his terse. positive. epigrammatic way
jects that began with the Philippines and
ended with the Boston & Albany.
whole world if We don't keep What we We
have got in the Philippines" he began
ION the continent they have in a way
taken it for granted that we are going
TO stay there and they pave stopped Won gqii1
manifest great curiosity to see how We
Win PIE V R6 SGi M9ns n Rn 19
A prominent Englishrnan expressed the
universal sentiment of his country when
he said to me, the other day:
Z" You Americans will learn by and by
as we deal with the East Indians. Square
the leaders. Ask AguinaldO and few
inducement it would take to make them
live in Hong Kong fOr. awhile, then take
put a strong garrison in every town
from the peace conference now in prog
ress at The Hague although it is trans
ties of universal peace has tendency to
ultimately bring it about, because it
makes the nations more familiar with the
subject and gradually overcomes their
preiudices against it.
Germany and Turkey do not submit
and the sultan are Identical on this sub
They both believe they are always d.
ytnely right in everything, consequently
they cannot be wrong when they, want to
make war. To question that right by re-
nent Of the primary privilege OF king
shiP w., e,...-, 80. ,,-..-,.-
me On1LGQ states ana Great britain
both favor arbitration, and France in the
main agrees with them.
Nations which do not have large navies
advocate decrease in the sea armament
of the world, while governments with
small armies are strong advocates OF land
disarmament
THE whole conference reminds me of a
ers sit under a shed and white all day.
each hoping that the other will get the
worst OF the bargain.
They. are much worried on the other
side just now over the large sales which
American T1aUTIfa hay
ing everywhere, in some cases driving
English goods practically out of the mar
The newspapers abound in all sorts of
th .eR6 as 70 the reason 1-.-,.-,. --,-
ingmen don't eat the right kind of food
The real reason is apparent to every
AS I told my English friends, VIZ pro-
duce more per man than they do. They
work under a lot of old hide-bound rules,
which prevent their producing the results
we do. With p per cent higher wages in
this country, the average wOrkingman
better quality, than the English rival
The Individual workingman is more in
better food and drinks less
This successful American competition
is having one curious effect on English
men. It leads them to infer that we. like
themselves. are after foreign markets, and
IN forcing Anglo-American products
Then Senator Depew, one Of the strong
est advocates that high tariff has ever
this
The competition of our products IN Eu-
ropean markets proves that the time is
coming when great many protected ar
ticles must be put on the free list If
Ihey can be sold cheaper and better than
Foreign manufactures, our tariff wall must
be gradually taken down to meet the
changed conditions.
What :, IMPRESSED me most in this last
visit TO Europe was the stability and per-
manency of English and American insti-
rutlOns as compared with those of other
nations Take France. for example. Just
see what an awful mess they arc in with
three parties in the chamber of deputies
each with the openly avowed object of
overthroWfng the government. Forum
ately they violently disagree as to meth
DDS, so that It is not likely any one of
them viii ever succeed. The desire to
make the exposition OF 1900 a success is
the chief influence that deters the French
people from bringing about a reign of
chaos in the Republic.
'Anti-semitism is rampant. Its exist