The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-02
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
HIGH TARIFF GONE TO SEED.

From the Philadelphia Times
The German tariff which has Just been officially pub
lshed Is collection Of monsrousy high duties such as has
recently been put law by any to impede
the trade of the world While be framed in the
agraran interest and may be regarded part OF the en-
perors deal with that gentry in order to secure their ap
prova for the canal bills the increases by no means con-
fined to agricultural products The rates in the agricultural
schedules in many almost prohibory as on many
kinds of grain horses and other live animals meat, meat
products and sugar
II is impossible how America hope TO sell farm
produce Germany after this bill shall be passed Articles
still sold there will be those that present raised in
Germany in inadequate What shall find its way
into the country will cost the people who already heavily
taxed such exofban price that consumption will be ma
tcrially curtailed.
But the aerarans against whom the free trade papers of
Berlin pleased rail and spend their fury are not the
only people who have had hand in the framing Of this bill
The manufacturers who feeling American trade rivalry
and who have been free advocate commercial alliances
against the United States also behind the tariff bill The
duties kinds of machinery more than doubled
the rates running up 81 hundredwegt The duties on
quadrupled Leather and shoes to such
rates that the American product which has lately
made rapid and alarming Roadway in the German market
will hereafter meet serious obstacle il it is not entirely
barred out Manufactured tobacco wood manufactures all
kinds of iron and steel implements will have to immense
into treasury if they future entry
into the kaiser's realm
Whoever has had part in arranging this carnival of
proteconsm is responsible for urging policy which will
inevitably lead tariff and international unpleasant
ness II the American neople did not live in glass house
and on, oent With The r,;nelev Ia,v were not respon-
sibe for stirring up sentiment in favor of European tariffs
conceived in spirit of sefdefense should be warranted
in maxine reoresen,atons 10 Germany on the subject of
outrageous schedules AS is this of the Ger
should NOT he allowed n mass ,,nnnoticed
s an omen attack non the commercial neace and TRANQUIL
I;tv of tbe vorld
FROM THE CORN BELT
From Chicago Inter Ocean.
The crops throughout the corn belt at this time may be
CLASSIFIED as follows Those that the long drouth has rrepar
ably ruined those that have been greatly injured and those
that have escaped all harm AS the beneficial effects of re-
cent ranfa are making themselves felt the farmers are
discovering that the volume Of the crops ruined and badly
damaged is diminishing while that of the crops practically
unscathed is increasing
Rain came too ate N save the corn in come localities and
there are vast tracts over which the crop total failure
but the loss as compared with the crop in general small
There will he tremendous salvage in the damaged corn as
the rains have rendered most Of il available for fodder In
many localities where the very worst was feared however
the Weld will be up to the average
No figures exoept those based upon observations taken