The Globe-republican., 1902-02-27
LET THE LAW ALONE
UNCOMPRO Missing ATTITUDE OF
ORTHODOX PROTECTIONISTS
Tarin Revision Would n DepIorable
EIunder, While General Reciprocity Is
characterized Blind Leap Certain
on Free Trade Ground.

of tariff revision and reciprocity is |
plainly defined in the preamble and |
resolutions as reported by special |
committee appointed by President |
Moore at the regular annual meeting |
OF the league ON Thursday January
10, 1902 The committee consisted of
Messrs- F. s. Witherbee. John A.
S1eicher, George J. Seabury and t. T.
CowIes. and the resolutions are as fol-
lows:
Whereas, At a time when the entire
civilized world is fixing its attention
upon the extraordinary condition OF
prosperity prevailing in the United
States as a direct result of the econom-
ic policy for which this organization
stands, and when our foreign and do
mestic commerce and trade have in
creased to a degree far beyond pre-
vious human experience in this or
any other country. Be it
Resolved, That the American Pro-
tective Tariff League earnestly pro-
tests against the insidious attacks upon
the principle and policy of protection
to American labor and industry that
have made themselves manifest in a
marked and unusual degree within the
past year. If there ever was time
when the principle and policy of pro-
lection had justly earned public con-
ddence and approval, and had demon
strated its value as an agency for the
highest material welfare of the coun-
try, that time is now AS the recog-
nized representatives of that principle
and policy we protest against the COW
ert assaults upon protection that are
being made in the name of tariff re-
vision and reciprocity, and urge that
the friends of protection throughout
the country should more than ever
show the faith that is in them by
vigorous and unceasing resistance to
all efforts to unsettIe in any way
discredit the policy for which We have
stood and shall continue to stand
To seriously agitate the question of
tariff revision at this time is i'll advised
and mischievous, while to deliberately
enter upon the readjustment of the
schedules of the Dingley law would
be a legislative blunder certain to be
productive of deplorable consequences
to all industries and all trade.
g Reciprocity is the handmaiden of
protection only when devised and ex-
ecuted in absolute harmony with the
principles and equities of protection;
when conceived in accordance with the
Republican national platform of 1900
viz, in articles which do not our
selves produce;' when carried out on
the line laid down by the late PreSi-
dent Mckinley in his speech at Buff
falo, Sept 5, 1901, by sensible trade
arrangements which will not interrupt
should take from our customers such of
their products use without
harm to our industries and labor
Reciprocity in any other form or on
any other basis would be dangerous
experiment, a breach of faith on the
part of the government toward those
who rely upon the measure of protec-
ton guaranteed by the Ding1ey law i
| long step in the direction of unre-
stricted competition by foreign pro-
duction, a leap in the dark which will
| land us squarely on free trade ground
On the subjects of the restoration of
| the American merchant marine, the
| creation of a department of commerce
and the construction of an iSthmian
| canal the resolutions are as follows:
| Resolved, That present and future
commercial interests imperatively de-
| mand in justice to immense vol
| ume of export and import trade, and as
/ a means of further stimulating and
| increasing that trade, the creation OF
| an American built merchant marine.
| not alone for the transport annually
| of over $1,000 100000 of our varied
/ products, but to prevent the annual
| export in gold of $500, OGO, 900 in trans
| portation charges, and to restore to
| our country the maritime independ-
| ence and supremacy which it enjoyed
| prior to 1861; furthermore (see history
| of the war with SPAIN, to provide an
| adequate system of transports in time
| of war
Resolved, That the erection of a
/ department of commerce as an ad-
/ junct to the executive branch of the
| Federal government is imperativeIy
| demanded in behalf OF trade COM
| merce and industry.
Resolved, That the early construc-
| ton of isthmian canal, supplement-
| ed by cable communication with our
| Pacific possessions and with the coun-
| tries of the far east, is indispensable
/ to our commercial supremacy
| Wanted, Profit Farmers.
| Henry T. Oxnard is largely interest