The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-06-20
ENGLAND AND THE TARIFF

Mr.. Chamberlain has succeeded IN
securing an Endorsement of his pro
teton ogra by the Comons, HIS
adroitness as a political leader was
shown to good advantage. He o
advantage of an attempt of the Lib
erals to separate him and Balfour'
and by presenting the issue as n OF
retaliation for the benefit of the colo
MES had his whole program Endorsed
by the decisive vote of 252 TO l32.
In TO this time the free trade pol
lev of Great Britain has compelled her
To submit quietly to exclusion from
the trade of any other country. She
co1ld NOT retaliate in kind, and sought
to make good the resulting losses by
military expansion OF her zones OF IN
fuence and trade in Asia and Africa.
That sort OF expansion has nearly
reached its limit. China is the only
field left, and the great cost OF eX-
ploiting that empire is a lettering
influence. Great Britain is driven by
circumstances to reverse her policy,
and the Commons consents that the
Ministry may propose a retaliatory
tariff. AS far as this goes ii is protec-
ton, pure and simple, and when that
line is once taken there can be no
logical rest until the principle is as
universally applied as it is in the
United States. There need be no ap-
plchension of injury to our trade with
Great Britain. Our production Is
needed by her to such an extent that
she cannot avoid taking it. Her coal
and iron mines are becoming so costly
TO operate that no tariff she can i'm
pose can exclude US from her markets.
We have in the metal. fiber and food
products the greatest resources and
the cheapest production in the world.
Ii any country try to build a tariff
wall high enough to exclude US the
injury will be inflicted On the other
side of il, not on ours. This has been
shown in Germany, where exclusions
OF our meat products has been con-
stantly the cause of popular protests
from the people, who want our meat.
Germany has been dancing on first
one foot and then the other as the
tune has varied between that played
b. the m~eat-eaters and the agrarians.
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are ever the most persistent, and their
cry is TO be silenced only by an ad-
equate supply. We live better than the
rest of the world. and produce the
largest surplus over our domestic
consumption. AS for our ibers. the
cotton mills of Lancashire must have
cur cotton. We control the world in
it, production. A British tariff thai
would shut out our cotton and wheai
and meat would produce conditions il
the British Isles that no Ministry
could continue and remain in power
The attitude of England toward Am
erican trade is therefore different from
that toward France or Germany
Neither has food or fbers to spare
Their competition with England is il
manufactured articles only. AS W,
can produce these better and cheape
than either of the Continental coun
tries, a tariff that would shut then
out of the British market would caus
us no anxiety.
American protectionists may wei
be gratihed that their leadership i
acknowledged by the most persisten
free trade country in the world. w
have always admitted that, as protec
ton is good for us. it would not b
bad for any other nation, and by tina
admission we stand. With protection
the active policy of Great Britain
and her colonies, we will always hav
ample margin for reciprocal trade
It's first effect will no doubt be an i'm
provement in our commercial rela
tions with Canada. whose rapid ad
yancement in population and eonsum
ing power is of the greatest interes
to us. The two great commercial ma
tions, with a common language an
common economic wants and ideas
will find no difficulty in mutual pre-
motion of prosperity by a commoI
tariff policy.-S. +. Call.