Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-12-22

those who expected him to give encour.
acement to the tariff reform element in
the republican party. He not only
specifically opposes taking the tariff off
the trust made articles as means OF at.
lacking the trusts, but he advocates a
higher tariff than the republican plat
forms have been in the habit of advocat-
ing
AN ADvoc ATE OF HIGHER TARIFF DUTIES.
The republican platform OF 1892,
adopted after the enactment OF the Nc
Kinlev law. declares that "there should
be licvcd duties equal to the difference
tween wages abroad and at home" But
Mr.. Roos cvelt in his recent message
says that there should always be a suffi.
Client rate of duty "to more than cover"
the difference between the labor cost
here and abroad The word ''more"
which Mir. Roosevelt adds as an amend
ment to the mos. extreme policy hereto
fore advocated is very indefinite word.
and can be used by protectionists to
Justify any tariff however high. He has
gone over bag and baggage into the
ultra protectionist camp. and will hence.
forth be "persona grata" with the
great corporate interests that write
tariff laws and then, hiding behind the
bulwark they themselves have raised,
plumber American citizens with high
prices while they sell abroad in COM
petition with the world.
ii any further evidence were necessary
to prove that he is not in the least tinct-
uied WI, IN tariff reform it is to be found
in his recommendation If a tariff COM
mission composed OF practical experts"
who "could approach the subject from a
business standpoint, having in view
both the particular interests affected
and the commercial well-being of the
people as whole" Tariff revision by
experts is only another name for no
tariff revision, because the experts are
men who profit by a high tariff, not
those who suffer from it.
HOW THE "rARIFF EXPERTS" AsE MADE.
In the opinion Of protectionists man
cannot become tariff expert by pur-
chasing protected articles, no matter
how long he may continue at it. but he
can become tariff expert in a very
short time by going into the manufac-
ture OF some article the price OF which is
enhanced by an import duty.
The Commoner takes great pleasure in
commencing the presidents recon.
mendation that anthracite coal be put
upon the free list, but it is advised on
the ground that it will have emo effect
at all save in crises" and the service
which it will render the people in crises |
is qualified by might" If the reduc.
ton will not affect the price Of coal in
ordinary times the protectionists may be
able to forgive the president for making
The recommendation.
His advocacy Of reciprocity, when
taken in connection with his high tariff
views, means that we will not have reci-
procity where it will do foreign nation
my good. and that, consequently, we
,annot get reciprocity ourselves where it
will be OF any advantage to us. There
must be mutually in every trade. and if
We only give concession where that
concession will be no advantage to others.
We cannot expect in return a concession
hat will be profitable to US.
WILL PLEASE THE KINGS OF FINANCE.
The presidents position on the money
question is all that the financiers could
,sk. He does not recommend any
specific legislation, but carefully confines
himself to broad and general statements
which can be construed by the financiers
INTO an Endorsement of anything which
hey may desire to spring upon an un.
'uspecting public.