Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-04-28

NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS. ThC
idea Of cooperation is working out its
own realization. But this evolution
will proceed as fast as it ought. and
not as fast as dreamers think il
should. Business conditions will
bring it about, and not the appeals OF
demagogues who do not understand
the great forces with which they trifle
And who can deny that this very evo-
luton is today the chief problem in
the minds of the worlds master fnan-
cial and industrial organizers them
selves?
THE TARIFF MUST BE READ
JUSTED.
American industrial evolution ana
American international relations are
| interviewer. And our international
rotations demand the exercise by the
| American government of that power
of the free hand developed in our treat
ment of the Philippine and Cuban
questions. We are literally engaged
in wirld-wide war of commerce.
/ We are able to wage this war success
/ fully because we have developed such
/ skill among our workingmen. such 4
quality of manhood among our labor
ing classes, and have produced such
masses of wealth, that, with these ele-
ments of industrial power all com
bined and organized, we are given the
advantage of every other producing
natiCn. For example, the immense
capital and wonderful organization
o. the great meat packing combina-
tions of America enable them to sail
refrigerating ships to every port and
feed the world with American beef of
quality and at price with which
the inferior organizations or other na-
tiOns cannot compete. This is true of
many of the other principal lines OF
trade. Therefore. other nations will
erect-are- erecting-tariffs against
American proGucts. Free trade Eng
land will not much longer remain
free trade. Within twenty-five years
every manufactured article entering
English ports will pay a heavy duty
unless by reciprocal tariff arrange
ments we keep Great Britain's mar
kets open to our products The same
is true of every other European ma
tion; and this policy of self-preserva-
tion will be applied to their colonies
also. II follows, therefore, THAT
THE AMERICAN TARIFF MUST
MEET THESE NEW CONDITIONS.
But our tariff will be made to meet
these new conditions along the lines
of International reciprocity. While
the tariff will be readjusted. it will
never be revised on horizontal or uni
yersal reductions or advances accord
ing to so-called principles of school
men and theorists; it will be adjusted
along the lines of international give
and take, with which practical nations.
like practical men, conduct practical
business. The American people will
never permit ignorant enemies of the
tariff principle 10 modify it. The
American people will demand that our
tariff adjustment, delicate as a watch
and affecting interests as wide as
commerce, shall be made by those
who understand its workings at home
and its effect abroad To entrust it to |
reactionaries and doetrinaires. would I
be like putting a crew of roek-break- I
ers from our public streets in charge I
OF the vast and complicated engines of
a modern and mammoth ocean steam !
ship.
PARTITION OFCHINA AND ASIERI-
CAN POLICY IN THE FAR EAST.
But no matter what tariff policy is
our European markets must /
comparatively diminish. That Is 4
while they will increase, they will not
increase in proportion TO their growth 4
In the past. Our relative prepopdsr-
anee of trade with Europe cannot he
maintained The reason is thar the
European nations themselves will
more and more supply their own
needs because they will more and
mere adopt American methods os in
dusuial and financial combinations
tariff protection and all those wavz
and means Of commercial power of
which America is master. For this
reason the trade Of China and the
whole Far East becomes NOT or,rv "a
sirable but necessary TO US To tht.
.rade the philippines constitute ths
Key, Their relation thus becomes not
only duty which we owe to human
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