Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-06-06
CHAMP QARK'S LETTER
Tariff Schedules Must
Be Reformed.
DESPITE PAYNES SNEERs.
Big Headed Gentleman May
Lower His Proboc-.s.
BABoooK IS on THE RIGHT TACK.

BABO0OK Is On THE RIGHT TACK.
Will Fight the Trusts with Stolen
Democratic Thunder Europe to
Combine Against Our Protective
Wall, Says Mr.. Schwub-Our Prod
ucts May Be Barred From Foreign
Ports-South Stnnclily Democratic.
Third Term Nonsense - Purifying
the Language-Mnine's Big Four.
Especial Washington letter.
If the Hon. Serene E. Payne, who
wears the largest hat of all the men in
the house, who is chairman Of the COM
mittee on ways and means and who is
ex officio floor leader Of the Repub-
licans, has read the interview of Mr..
Gustave H. Schwab, the American man
ager of the North German Lloyds, he
will probably not hold his proboscis so
high in air when he reflects that Bah
cocks scheme to lower the tariff on
certain articles and to take it entirely
off certain other articles is of prime
necessity. True. Bah is trying to steal
Democratic thunder but that doesn't
matter SO long as he is on the right
track. 1t is safe to say that Mr.. Bah
cock is not free trader. He stands with
the Washington Post and other tariff
advocates who believe and assert that
the present tariff schedules must be re-
formed either by its friends or its enc
mics, and that it is better that it be
reformed by it's friends. Babcock ct
id genus omne of Republicans have
sense enough to observe that the anti
trust tide is rising, and they believe
that they must help down the trusts
or that they and their party will be
engulfed by that irresistible tide if they
do not help. Mr.. Payne, on the other
hand, is disposed to play the role of
old King Canute, who was too proud
to get out of the way of the tide, but
ordered it to retire.
Food For Reflection.
There is much solid food for pro-
found reflection in Mr. Schwabs obser-
vations. He has just returned from
Europe. While there he made sys-
tematic study of the new spirit of
trade hostility toward Us and of the
much talked of European combination
against American products. He sees in
it danger to American interests and
predicts the most serious consequences.
He asserts, as the result of his inveS-
legations, that the only way to avert
disastrous blow to our trade in foreign
ports is ''to lower the wall of protec-
tion with which we have surrounded
ourselves and by some form of recipro-
cal concessions meet these European
nations in their desire for fair treat
ment." That will probably give Mr..
Payne and his coparceners buck ague,
but that matters little. 1t will help
Babcock in his belated attempt to do
now what ought to have been done
years ago. "You tickle me and I'll
tickle you" is an adage which applies
to nations as well as to individuals. A
man naturally patronizes the man who
patronizes him. Same way with na-
tions. We can't shut everybody out of
our markets and then expect everybody
to buy from us.
1t is notorious fact that our manu-
facturers undersell European manufac-
turers in all the markets of the world.
1t is also notorious that American
sell to foreign patrons
cheaper than they do to American Gus
toners at their very doors, which is en-
outrage on justice and an insult to
common sense. The fact that Ameri-
can manufacturers can at profit
undersell European manufacturers
gives the former the American market,
but if the Europeans take it into their
heads to lay discriminating duty on
American products it will be a vast
to our farmers, laborers and
manufacturers. Mr.. Payne talks much
as did Sir Robert Peel in the canvass
of 1912, when he declared that any man
who talked of repeating the English
corn laws ought to be clapped into
strait waistcoat and a padded cell. Yet
in 1867 the same Sir Robert Peel re-
pCcllCQ Liz NOl II laws lJSt iOtJc tuelt
Mr.. Payne will see the light also and
come to the aid of Brother Babcock.
A False Alarm.
Democrats who chance to read the
st. Louis Globe Democrat should not
be deluded into the erroneous belief
that the regular Democrats of Mis-
souri, have been overthrown, routed or
by the little coterie of Palm
er-Buckner Democrats in that state or
that any such catastrophe is impend-
ing. Such talk is all bosh, unmitigated
tommyrot For some unaccountable
reason the st. Louis Democrats nomi-
mated for Mayor Mr. Wells, who voted
twice for M:,Finley. Why they did
that it would be impossible for even
them to explain. The only reason ever
given is that the municipal election was
purely local affair and that the over
whelming necessity for getting rid of
the Zeigenheim regime compelled them
to nominate a man of approved busi-
ness capacity and undoubted integrity.
But that is an explanation which does
such men-i. e.. of approved business
capacity and undoubted integrity-in
st. Louis who were faithful to the
Democratic cause in 1896, 1898 and
1900. And one of these would have
been stronger than Mr.. Wells and
would have received such a majority
that no one would have dreamed of
contesting his election What's more,
If the st. Louis Democrats had put up
such man, the Palmer and Buckner
adherents would have received the
glory Of his election and would have
been gladly welcomed into the party
with open arms, provided they had sup
ported him in good faith. As it is, by
thrusting Mr.. Wells upon the party,
even in a local election, they have bred
some i'll feeling among the rank and
file and some apprehension.
The Globe-Democrat, laying hold of
the Ill feeling and distrust, magnifying
both, making mountain out Of a mole
hill, proclaims from the house tops that
the great Democratic party of Missouri
is rent in twain and that the regulars
nre about to surrender to the Palmer
and Bucknerites, which is all moon
shine. They have no more idea of sur
rendering than General Zachary Tay-
Ior had of surrendering to Santa Anna
on certain memorable occasion. It is
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