Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-04-04
BAD FOR PROTECTION.
Changing Commercial Condition.
Bring About am Awkward Situ-
alton for Tariftites-

II DS21uS ID 1OOh d. IL tAO
of a protective tariff were to divide
into opposing camps. The infant
industries are now full grown, and
are disposed to devour one another.
They were a happy family as long as
there was enough of the home mar
ket'' to GO around, and they waxed
fat if not cherubic, under the PAM
pering. The American people IN
dorsed the brand of food and its
| wholesale administration, although
certain unpatriotic, impractieable and
Objectionable people called atten-
ton to the dangers of letting infants
have their own way. In obedience to
| the warning, the brand of food was
changed a time or two, but the petted
darlings raised such an cutlery that
they not only compelled the foster
parents to yield, but also to grant
them an increase of diet to compen-
safe for the temporary deprivation.
Is it not an ironical outcome that
projections civil war should break
out during the administration of a
man who has been looked upon as its
high priest? It was really a great
day for the beneficiaries of protection
when Mckinley stepped into power.
His selection was taken as an indorse-
ment of the protection principle and
as a final disposition of the contro-
versv whether individual enterprises
should have the support of the gov
eminent. But if the advocates of pro-
lection would learn nothing from
maxims at home, they were com
PEELED to consult markets when they
--ao% olrool Their HrSf lesson came
when they discovered that alien peo-
pies would only trade on fair terms,
and in no event would they yield all
the profits. Our manufacturers then
began to understand hat it takes two
to make a bargain, and. h was
more singular, a trade could actually
result with benefit to both sides!
But in compliance with a long
formed habit, our tariff beneficiaries
were disposed to hold on to a good
thing when they had it. and they
adopted another plan in lieu of deal
, ing with nations on fair terms. They
would use the tariffs protecting the
: home market as so much bounty, and,
5 with the advantage thus gained. they
t would undersell by a good figure,
their competitors abroad. But this
t very result is defended by tariff adj
: ~vocates, and is pointed to as a vim
I dication of their policy! IF the con
I sumner here, at the very doors of the
e factory. protests that he has to pay
s more for his goods than people across
the sea for the same products after
the cost of export has been added
he is pronounced unpatriotic and {
)" hinderer of his country's great ane
beautiful expansion policy.
S Up to the war with Spain the pro
e lection advocates stood together, bu'
o that conflict brought about a change
in conditions. AS it happened, TIT
S soils of our new possessions were
S especially adapted to the raising o
s sugar cane and tobacco, two articles
G of production which promised t.
e form two new industries here, to th'
d g1orifcation of the country and tn
Is "protection of American bor TIL
first shock to the protection theor.
r was given by the Porto Rican tarli
bill. The sugar trust, the sugar an
% tobacco growers, after a fierce con
test. won their point in the principl
e that the bill embodied. Certain "pro
e t~ectionists," who voted against tn
m proposition to levy tariffs on Port
= Rican goods. reconciled their actior
is with their o1d-tIme principle by we
coming the suggestion that Port
lie Rico was not, after all, a foreign tel
TT ritory. Their consistency was there
w by preserved. But the colonies an
ia Cuba may be expected to i'd furthe
lie trouble to the protectionists whe
E. s~vndicates. attracted to them, sha
want the United States for a marke'
lie The recent edict of Russia adde
e. another disturbing factor to the sitt
It, alton. The managers of the stee
re and iron industries have not reco'
ne ered from the blow yet, but the
n threaten. in their daZe, to go back o
d. the principle of a lifetime. Shall tn
IL nation. they ask-note their unsel1sf
lis ness always-run the danger OF diva,
US ing its foreign trade just for the SAX
of benefting a few tobacco and suga
is growers and the sugar trust? Th
g. nroposition is an outrage! Moreoye
he Secretary Gage was not the man the
RI took him for If he could not stretc
re the provisions of the law for the gel
es eral good. But, unfortunately, t
he these directors are opposed, not I'll
- innocent IN hCIPAST
u tbe "home market" but a sugar an
lie, tobacco trust or two, which have ais
hs had the benefits of a long experiene
ID. in looking out for their own int
IN ests. Here at last, then, ensues a
ng instance in which patriots and tt
flag are arrayed on both sides of tt
VS. controversy. VIII they fight it out
lg. The has no objection
vii they compromise on reduced ia
ifs? Again the consumer will I
ng Observation-Disclosures News Ond.
tut John Sherman, the create
bit fnancier In the republican party, r
to pudiated the Philippine policy of b
he party: Benjamin Harrison. the la
lily republican president before McKinle
to repudiated the Philippine policy of b
party: Thomas B. Reed, the most di
of tinguished republican out of offic
ed has repudiated the Philippine poll
ac- of his party. These things might di
res turb the president, but for the fla
st, that Mr.. Hanna is ever nea and keel
,re the finger of destiny pointed iowa,
he the orient.-The Commoner.
IS
ed. Secretary Gage announces tn
he does not propose to use any part
the surplus in the purchase of bono