New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
MIR. CHAMBERLAIN'S NEW POLICY.
Education a Greater Factor in National
Success than Protection.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t has occurred to to write few I'M
partial opinions on this subject In case they may
be Of interest to your readers.
AS far as can see, the certain and true thing
IN the whole controversy is that Great Britain Is
keenly suffering at the hands of American and
German competition in industrial activity. All the
rest'that is being said seems to Of f1imsy and
imaginative character, and I fail entirely to see
how tariff save England any more than II
could be said that it has made this country or
Germany. 1t is true that this country has
tariff, and high one and SO has Germany Both
these countries have greatly prospered and to the
detriment of England Is 1t due to protection? II
So # protection is the magic power that has en-
gendered these wonderful results in America and
in Germany. should see it protection) achieving
equally miraculous feats wherever enforced All
know that France has tariff. Italy has a tariff,
and has Greece, to say nothing of Turkey But
and above all, have in China and in Moroc-
the two countries which in regard to protectloh
lead the world and it does not seem necessary to
me to draw the moral that. II protection were the
magic agent which transforms poor country into
a rich one, China and Morocco would now be the
leading powers Of the earth. If. however, the pro-
tective policies of Germany and America are not
the cause of British discomfort what is the cause?
1t would appear to that il another cause could
be found which would answer equally as well Tor
American and German development ana at the
time not force as IN the case OF protectoh'
to admit the absurdity that Morocco and emma
are the leading powers ana HSHlS VI TIC "''A'-'
say then that this second cause would have a
great advantage over the first and some recon-
mendation to be considered as the real one. .,:
In education, in superior education, we rave Silr9
more than probable cause. cause eXtaht IN HgGI
many and America in full force, working It's
wonders and marvels and in the exact degree OF
superiority British education, as IS oeglhhlnS5
to be observed in the superiority of German ara
American industrial methods. whereas China ana
Morocco have tariffs but no education ,ou
And since 1t is SO. can conclude thal SupetlUr
education in America and in Germany wouLn' III tI
ifs no tariffs have had in the long IGn tnl 3
same effect that we now see British trade, ana
the probable effect Of A1r. Cham berlanS PROPOSE
the prosperity of Great Britain VIII De as $50
as if a railway track, declining earnings were were
surrounded by high fence, which it lacked oeIoie
Would that help the dividends one bit? 1T W ouIa
add to the expenses, because it is the county, Try
that imposes the tariff that pays f0r IL IL oio
protected community wants or needs a certain
commodity it must do one of three things 10 10
without pay for it and its duty or prcduce II IL
would need little effort to do the rSt; TOT I5o
second it must have money: but the miro 1t ,t
only achieve in single way, ana enc III ~
protection has the slightest influence, anu l o.
is through being educated to know now 10 lihe w
produce that commodity --- ,rr-D,,ocA
Ell MARQUIS DE LOVE Hf1ftNloH'EA
New-Haven, Conn, June 16 1913