The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-11
TO REVISE OR
NOT TO REVISE
Tariff Doctors Not Anxious to OPP
crate on the Dingley Law,
Fearing Complications.
One Congressman Says It Will Be
Throwing Sand in the
Running Gear.
The Reciprocity With Canada Issue
The Reciprocity With Canada Issue
Looming Up Large in
the East.

Fron, Tho Journal B,.rea". Room rs. Posi-
Washington, Sept 11.--ReVislon, or no
revision? That is the question that Is
agitating senators and congressman all
over the country. They write their troubles
to their friends here TO revise-to lop
ofr-to clip the claws Of this and that
monster, and thereby roll up a big major
ity for the republican party; were de-
voutly to be wished; but if in revision
there Is to be horrible reaction, q slump
and panic-there's the rub. That is what
inclines some Of the wise heads to cling
to the evils that we have. Speaker Hend-
erson Is among the latest to declare him
self. He says there will be no revision
during the next session. The house may
pass a revision bill, but the senate, he
thinks, will kill 1t. Revision is all very
well, he thinks, a couple Of years from
now.
There Is no getting away from the fact
that tariff revision will form big topic
next December. and this whether the fall
elections are favorable to the republican
party or not. Tariff revision is demanded
by the great public. And although this
great public is slow and laundering, In
tangible and non -getatable, it eventually
gets it's way.
man from the middle west, lis bound to
come, judging from the temper of peo-
pie around here. 1t is only a question
to my mind whether 1t had better come
soon or later. If the people keep on howl
Ing, they will get it sooner than other
wise. But personally 1 think revision
should be postponed for awhile. 1t will
be like throwing sand in the running gear,
when it does come. Business will slow
down, pending the adjustment Of the tariff.
Now, 1 don't want business to slow down.
AT the same time, if it's case of grapple
or drown, we'd better grapple with the
trust issue and revise the tariff
81 have talked with number Of fellow
congressman during this summer. We all
agree that the question will loom up big
next winter. Somebody is going to come
in with a resolution for the appointment
OF a tariff commission, or instructing the
ways and means committee to take the
question up. Then the issue will be
aquarey before us. We shall have to fish
or cut bait. My main hope is that the
people will trust the honest purpose Of
the republican party to handle this ques~
ton and leave it to the good sense and
patriotism of it's leaders, rather than to
the free-trade heretics on the other side
of the fence
- Reciprocity.
Reciprocity is another burning question.
Reciprocity with Cuba is practically a
3oregOne conclusion now and reciprocity
with Canada is to be the next war cry
of the trade expansionists. Canada is a
better and bigger market than Cuba. and
is being peopled with Americans faster
than any other part Of the globe. Farmers
of Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas and other
northern states packing up and going
over the Canadian line to develop the
rich wheat fields. They are making their
presence felt already, but it is not a cir
cumstance to the demand that will come
later for freer trade relations with their
hrnt hnro tlo ooctoo orf t@r,
the Canadians are clamoring for chance
to do business with Boston and New York.
Whether a Canadian commissioner is on
the way here not, the question is be-
ginning to siZzle.
In Boston the matter Is peculiarly i'm
portant Some Of the congressional can
didates are making their platform on
Canadian reciprocity, and that alone. E.
N. Foss, brother Of George Edmund Foss
OF Chicago wants to come to congress,
and practically his sole battle cry is reci-
procity with Canada.
Canada, according to Boston newspa-
pers, has even gone to the extent of quiet
ly threatening that unless the United
States did something within six months
in way of tariff concessions it would pass
q discriminating tariff act.
THE warnings are practically official,
says one paper.
We Miss a Billion.
everybody knows that the United King
dom Is liberal purchaser of the goot
things raised In the United States, bu
few realize the enormous possibilities o
the market still to be developed. Sixty
three per cent of Great Britain's tw,
and a half billions of imports are agri
cultural products, and of this amount tn
United States in 1900 supplied only $513,
100000, leaving a cool billion to be sup
piled by other countries. This country
however, supplies a. far larger percentag
e. OF Great Britain's food stuffs than an
other. Of the total, the United State
sold Great Britain $3.50 per cent in 1900
while France sold 6.54 per cent German
j Sol per cent. Netherlands 4.S6 per cent
Argentina 4.01 I er cent, Russia the sans
Denmark $50, Egypt $751; Belgium Els
Spain 1.66, Asiatic Turkey 1.02, and tween
ty other countries less 'than 1 per cen
each. while from British colonies 2431 De
cent OF the mother countrys provende
was received. w. w. Jermane.