The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-24
opinion that something will have to be
done toward modifying the tariff. Said
the senator from Illinois:

opinion that something will have to be
done toward modifying the tariff. Said
the senator from Illinois:
would not wish to be understood as favor
ing anything radical. 1 should not want to
see anything done which would unsettle busi-
ness interests or alarm our manufacturers;
but that the time has come when we must
think about doing something l am firmly con-
vinced. Our foreign market are threatened.
The rapid and wonderful development of our
industries has startled the world. We have
leaped into commercial supremacy, and the
foreign nations who invading their
markets are becoming alarmed. Already
there is talk of resistance. There is talk
OF an alliance of European countries to resist
the inroads of American trade. There Is talk
and it is evidently not mere talk-of retail
atory duties. If we build a wall around our
markets they say we can hardly complain If
they follow our example. And that's the sit
uation. With us it is a simple business
proposition. AS business men, or as a busi-
ness nation, we must be on the alert. In dan
ger Of losing our markets, we must see what
can be done.
Probably much of the difficulty can be met
by reciprocity. 1t is a case Of give and take.
We get lower duties on certain of our goods
going into other countries, and they are per-
without paying such high tariffs. This has
been our avowed policy; but we have not
lived up to it with perfect consistency. Our
| state department has negotiated lot of trea-
ties providing for reciprocal reductions and
then the senate has proceeded to ignore them
and let them die. To foreign nations this
looks strangely. 1t seems like bad faith. In
my mind, 1t behooves the senate to take up
these treaties and give them serious consider
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from the standpoint of the whole country's
welfare. Local seif-interest should not be
permitted to defeat fair treaty. l have been
giving the subject some special study this
spring and will do my part to press it on
! the attention of congress next winter.
Although the matter has not definitely
been decided, it is probable that Senator
Cullom will be chairman of the foreign
relations committee in the reorganization,
in which event it will be his special duty
to handle the reciprocity treaties.
COUNTERFEITING The local police of
Philadelphia are con-
IN PRISON. siderably stirred up
over the discovery
that Arthur Taylor, the counterfeiter, had
succeeded in setting up a counterfeiting
plant in the Moyamensing prison, and had
even gone so far as to turn out $50 $40
bills. They are even more annoyed that
the discovery of the operations was made
by Chief John Wilkie of the federal secret
service located in Washington At first
they refused to believe it possible, and
| Chief Wilkie had to go to Philadelphia
and explain to the guards just how 1t
| happened. 1t took Taylor five months to
engrave the plate. He worked in a corner
of his cell under tent made of blan-
ket A small lamp and tools had been
smuggled in to him by his lawyer. Then
he made minute press, the whole small
enough to go into mans Side pocket.
/ The bills were put into the hands OF