The Daily Texarkanian., 1900-06-21
FREE TRADE.

It is a well known fact that prom
inent REPUBLICANS and republican
papers have given expression to free
trade sentiments. A collection of
these has been made by the New
England Free Trade League as fol-
lows:
Governor Mount of Indiana
emphaticlly favor removing all tar
iff protection from industry that
belongs to combination formed in
restraint of trade.
"Chicago Times-Herald - Most
certainly itshould be the duty of
congress in both branches of which
the republicans have majority, to
abolish or suspend the protective
duty on the products of any indus
try which has been organized into
trust and which has arbitrarily
raised the prices of such products.
"Hon. John Sherman-Whenever
this free competition is evaded or
avoided by combination of iudivid--
uals or corporations the duty should
be reduced and foreign competition
promptly invited.
st. Paul Pioneer-Press - The
whole set of protected monopolies
ought be brought within the pur-
view of tariff reform which would
enable foreign competition to put a
limit on their ability to raise prices.
Senator Washburn-It seems
to me after giving the matter a
great deal of thought, that the re-
publicans in congress will have to
examine the suject thoroughly, and
whenever they find trust is pend
ing for its exorbitant profits largely
on protective duties it will be the
duty of republican congressman and
senators to remove the duties at
once.
Minneapolis Journal-The senator
is so iminently correct in his posi-
tion that tariff duties which enable
trusts or any other kind of monopo-
lies to raise prices above the point
at which they conld otherwise be
maintained should be lowered in the
public interest that we must have
range ourselves beside him on that
proposition.
"New York Commercial Advertis-
er-The time will soon come when
public opinion will no more tolerate
protective duties on trust products,
for protection should logically pro-
mote home competition, while trust
organization destroys it.
Portland Oregonian - Because
the paper trust put up the price of
printing paper to unconscionable
figure, Representive DeVries of
California, has introduced bill to
repeal the duty on printing paper
and the material of which it is
made. 1t is very well; but there
are forty more big trusts that have
help through protective tariff and
should be dealt with in the same
way.
Senator Plumb-There are doz-
ems of lines of manufactures cover
ed by the terms of this bill which |
are controlled by trusts.
| do not know of any better way to
start in at least to reduce the ex.
actions of trusts than to cut down
the shelter behind which trusts are
created.
Philadelphia Ledger-What is i'm
peratively required is a revision of !
the tariff such as will modify the
rates, or, better still, place upon
the free list all foreign goods,
whether raw material or finished |
products that are subject of domes-
tic monopoly.
Hartford Courant, December
This paper declared that the presi.
dent should have closed his trust |
discussion in his message with a
straightforward shoulder recon
mendation for the immediate repeal
of any and every protective customs
duty behind which a price.raising
monopoly is squatted,"
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