Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-27
NO TARIFF REVISION.
r LICAN SEN TIMEN
STRONGLY AGAINST 1T.
President Mckinley and the Le.dios
Senators snd Congressmen DePrecate
Amy Attempt to Tinker with the Duty
Schedule Next Winters Session.

of the tariff question, either by direct
legislation or by the roundabout meth
cd of special trade treaties framed for
the benefit of few industries and at
the expense of the general body of in
dustries, a number of letters have been
received from conspicuous members of
the Fifty-seventh Congress. All of those
letters are identical in tone and tenor.
They are positively adverse to any
scheme of meddling with the tariff
schedules, now or in the near future.
They tally exactly with the express
sions of Congressman Taylor of Ohio
before the industrial commission, and
of Congressman Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania in an interview published after
his return from an extended western
tour.
A New England senator writes:
It is the old story over again-a Pro
ton and effort, resulting in business pros
perity; then movement in the direction
have reaped the benefit of protection are
foolishly tempted to join 1t is very dis
couraging.
A Mississippi Valley congressman of
marked prominence says:
Nine-tenths of the sentiment in favor of
the Babcock bill is based upon ignorance.
misstatements of fact and prejudice
productive industries.
In a recent interview at Cleveland
Senator Hanna declared that he did
not believe the President ever said to
NJ. Siegfried that he had ceased to be
an ultra-protectionist and that the ne
cessity for protection Lad largely dis
appeared Senator Hanna said:
From all the talks I have had recently
with President Mckinley am of the
na as ne ever Thfs tank that the
next Congress will tinker with the Ding
PRESIDENT is ali nonsense The Dinghy
law is a scientific measure and will last
Tor Tor years to come. The president be
and will not, in my belief, advocate any
changes whatever He sim believes in
1t is necessary. The president, however
is strong advocate of reciprocity, and
would, think, consider treaties along
the line of mutual interest between this
country and another. If another country
duty which we need badly we shall be
willing to reciprocate by opening the tar
if wall a little and giving them some
interfere with the protection of our in
would have been accepted had it not been
for some Objectionable tariff features.
The treaties as they stood, if ratified by
the United States, would have killed the
knit goods industry in the New England
the United States is able to make reci-
procity treaties with foreign countries
Will be made, and gladly
The following vigorous and compre-
hensive presentment of the question OF
tariff tinkering is from the pen of Cen
eral Grosvenor, the Ohio congressman,
who has been said to be in a peculiar
sense the reflector of the views of
President Mckinley on the floor of the
house of representatives:
House of Representatives, U. s., June /
1901. Editor American Economist, New
York--Dear Sir: The great danger to the
future welfare of the American peopie
Two things have made this country pros
porous and rich, and are moving forward
the richest country earth. Those
two things are. first. the Dinsley tariff
up to recent period the A---rican peo-
pie had that We were to he<o steadfast
to be maintained and that disturbers of
the peace and prosperity of the country
snd to for BE feE to the tae The
tariff anything whatever other than what
classes of people. First the free fo tra der
in all his forms. semblances and phases,
about trusts and com a has Been
carried off his feet by the. cry of the
the tarfff on certain products in order to
break up the trusts 1t is a small matter
to get up elevation where there is
hole through the structure and let a
stream of water the size of straw pro-
Ject itself out upon the city below. but
when it is entirely apparent that there is
that sort of a gimlet hole which will be-
come an auger hole and finally a breach
in the wall and that the flood will come
down on the town. then the old Bible
beginning of strife"
Admitting that the repeal of the duties
upon certain products of American in
dustry might in1ure and even destroy
certain -of the trusts. agitation of the
e tns nna on of the
cial injury to the welfare of the country
in one month than all the benefits that
the most enthusiastic rainbow chaser of
the suggestion has ever dreamed of Let
a party with political power enough SOL
EMMY decide that they will enter upon
the present tarin law and business will
stop as quickly as human life will stop
when the blood ceases to circulate BY
but the heart will beat more slowly and
the blood win now in paucfty of amount
and speed
I do not believe that the placing OF our
products of iron and steel upon the free
list would break UP a single trust or int
pair the value of the stock of the United
States Steel Company any other of
the combinations do believe that IL
would wipe out the small manufactures
and that the great combination would
control absolute. y the markets of tha
United States in company with and upon
| n basis of division of profits with the
trusts now orga led abroad. 1 do not
care to discuss this subject now 4 be-
1 lieve the whole matter to be an ins,ira
ton of the devil of free trade, and IT has
anxiety of the people to break dcEn
trusts and combinations. but my point
| is that a present agitation of a serious
make it effective of a general revision of
the tarfn laws would be absolutely de-