Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-09-14

national legislation regarding the cut
| look for tariff revision in the fifty
seventh congress continue to be re-
| ceived by the American Economist. In
| letter of July 10 Senator Warren Of
| Wyoming authorizes the following
statement of his views:
Senator Warren of Wyoming.
The duty of the next congress is not
to enact tariff legislation of any kind,
| but to let it alone. The business of
the country is on an excellent basis and
prosperous. Tariff tinkering always
serves to inject an element of uncer-
tainty into the business affairs of the
country, and if l am any judge that is
just what the people of the country do
not want. AS to trusts, we do not know
yet whether they are detrimental to
the country or not. Time will tell, and
after we are sure of our ground there
will be plenty of time to act. 1 do
not take much stock in this talk about
trusts and the tariff being closely al
lied as public questions.
1 am not an apologist for trusts or
capitalistic combinations, in whatever
form, but l wish it could be more gen
orally comprehended that a vast deal
that connects tariffs and trusts is the
veriest bosh-political. claptrap.
The trusts, so called combinations of
capital and interest, are a new devel-
opment of the great business system
wherein this country is SO rapidly TAX
ing the lead. Such combinations are
effected in accordance with the laws of
the country, and we have nothing upon
which to base a belief that their opera
ton will work a hardship to humanity
We are hearing a great deal of the
great trusts as constituting a menace
to individual freedom, but this is mere
speculation. Nothing has developed to
justify belief in the truth of such fears
The plentitude of money, the energy
and activity of the American people
and the inevitability of competition in
an age like this, will initiate against
the existence of monopo1ies.
With reference to the tariff Difficult
ties now attracting attention between
this country and Russia, this is a mat
ter that has never been before the SEN
ate, but there is every probability that
an adjustment of the difference salts
factory to both countries will be
reached. I am believer in the adop-
ton of reciprocal treaties, but it must
be borne in mind that many of the
treaties that have come before the
senate have been of so one sided a
character as to render their rejection
imperative. Francis E. Warren.
Pritchard of North Carolina.
Editor American Economist: do
not think it wise to undertake to
change the Dingley tariff law at this
time. 1t was framed at time when
the country was in dire distress in
consequence of the unwise and injudi-
cious legislation contained in the Will
son-Gorman tariff act, and its provis-
ions were enacted with view of meet
ing the emergency which confronted us
at that time. 1t was constructed so as
to reach every branch CT human in
dustry, and it's enactment has resulted
in giving us the greatest prosperity
that has ever been known in the his
tory Of the United States, ana we
should not permit the question of
trusts and those who seek to make 1t
an issue to influence us in the slightest
degree in our treatment of the tariff
question. Experience teaches us that
any attempt to commit this country
to the theory of free-trade invariably
results in business Generalization The
people of the South are just beginning
incident to Republican rule, and they
attribute our success in a great meas
ure to the workings of the Dingley bill
We are today enjoying a degree of
prosperity never dreamed of before
and any attempt to change existing
rates in our tariff schedules will be
met with a determined resistance on
the part of those who are in favor of
developing the South's wonderful re-
sources. There is but one way to
reach unlawful combinations, and that
is by amending our constitution so as
to give congress power to deal with the
question in an intelligent manner and
any attempt to punish such combina-
tions will result in injury to the real
friends of the people, as well as those
who earn their living by their daily
labor. The conditions that resulted
from the passage of the wilson-Gor-
man act should be a warning to us for
All time to come ]. G. Pritchard.
Greene of Massachusetts.
Editor American Economist: am
not among the humber who deem it
prudent for the fifty-seventh congress
to agitate for a general revision of the
tariff legislation known as the Dingley
law. The, tariff reformers and free
traders have not been inclined to re-
call to the minds of their fellow coun-
trymen the business conditions which
law by urging that their theories
might have another chance to put into
practice until Congressman Babcock
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