The Globe-republican., 1901-07-18
NO TARIFF REVISION.
EPUBLI IN SEN TIM ENT
STRONGLY AGAINST IT.
President Mckinley the Leading
Senators and Congressman Deprecate
Amy Attempt to Tinker with the Duty
Schedule at Next Winters Session

American Protective Tariff League for |
an expression regarding the reopening |
of the tariff question. either by direct |
legislation by the roundabout meth |
cd Of special trade treaties framed for
the benefit OF q 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 F'ifty-seyenth Congress All OF those
letters are identical in tone and tenor
! They are positively adverse to any
scheme Of meddling with the tar1m
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 Dalze1l of PennsyI
vania in interview published after
his return from an extended western
tour.
A New England senator writes.
1t is the old story over again-a Pro
tective TariT secured after long agita-
perity; then a movement the direction
Of free trade in which those wh9 would
foolishiy tempted to join 1t is very dis
a Mississippi Valley congressman of
marked prominence says:
Nine,tenths Of the sentiment in favor of
laissta te1aents OF fact ana. prejadies
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 ra-protectionist and that the
cessity for protection Fad largely dis
appeared. Senator Hanna said:
From al the talks I have had recently
with Pr esd McI<iney an, m, Of the
protection as ever This talk that the
ley tariff law at the suggestion of the
Jaw is a scientific measure and viii last
for years to come The president be
and will not, in my belief, advocate any
proteeting AIneriean industries wherever
IS sfTon dvod of reeiprodif and
. think consider treaties al tsig
country and another If another country
duty which we need badly we shall be
vi to re .sI by opening the tar
thing free of duty. long it does
dustriea The French o reciprocity tra l
Tor some objectionable tariff FEATURES
The trea ties as they stood if ratified .tjt by
knit goods industry in the New England
nj the United states Is able to make ree
Without injgring Amsriean Industries they
viii be made, and gladly
The following vigorous and compre
hensive presentment of the question OF
tariff tinkering is from the pen of Gen
era1 Grosvenor, the Ohio Congressman,
| who has been said to be in peculiar
sense the reflector of the views of
| President Mckinley on the floor of the
house of representatives:
7o mou5s OF representatives. u s. June l:
Sir The Eng grea5 danger to the
| lies in the shortness of their memory
Two things have made this county pros,
with enormous strides toward making
t1so til things are 1irst the Dingiey tapiff
! up to recent period the American peo-
adherence
| to be maintained and that disturbers of
| were to be relegated to the rear The de
| tariff anything whatever other than what
we have now comes altogether from two
/ In all his forms, sen1blances ana phases
about trusts and colnbinat ions. has been
fari reform m that Ws onght t. 9 rep sae
the tariff on certain products in order to
| to get up on an elevation where there is
hole Ell through the structure ana let
ef tae Gf a p 5he the e CT eTe p9
ha sort d Is of gt ho we t ba
| come an anger hole and finally a breach
Sowa ne sa tow: f then ne qld Si5Is
Admittine. that the repeal of the duties
dustry might injure and even destroy
| question of the modificsatfon Of the pres tse
e ,nI tariir system en- w39Id DO more no finan-
IN one month than ali the BENEFITS that
1
| the suggestion has ever dreamed of Let
| a party with political power enough SOL
emnly decide that they will enter upon
| the present tariff law and business will
| stop quickly human life will stop
| when the blood to circulate. By
stop I to cease absolutely
| but the heart will beat more slowly, and
| the blood viii flow in paucity of amount
| and speed
| do not believe that the placing OF our
| products of iron and steel upon the free
| list would break up n single trust or I'M
| pair the value of the stock of the United
| States Steel Company any other of
| the combinations I do believe that 1t
would wfPe out the small manufacturers
and that the great combination would
| control absolutely the markets the
| United States in company with and upon
| a basis of division of profits with the
| trusts now organized abroad. do NOT
| care to discuss this subject now I be-
| lieve the whole matter to be an inspfra-
| ton OF the devii of free trade. and it has
| been seized upon because of the supposed
anxiety Of the people to break down
| trusts and com binatiOnS; but point
| Is that present agitation of a serious
! character backed by force enough to
| make 1t effective of general revision of
| the tariff laws would be absolutely de-
| structfSe OF the present prosperity. There
| is no trouble about the trusts Under our