The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-08
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THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1903.
AMAZING INCONSISTENCIES.

The speech of Mr.. Chamberlain at
Glasgow, opening the British cam
paign for the protective policy, ap-
proaches more closely to defniteness
and detail than any previous utterance
either Of himself or of Mr.. Balfour.
Mr.. Chamberlain is one of the ablest
men intellectually in the British en-
plre today, and we must suppose that
he has presented his projected policy
in. its most favorable light. We can
not understand how anyone can fail to
detect in an instant, or how Mr.. Cham
berlain himself could have passed over
the amazing inconsistencies involved
in the doctrine which he has now es-
poused.
Like SO many other men, Mr.. Cham
berlain wishes to accept the HAPPY
consequences of his acts while escap-
Ing those less agreeable. What he
presents to the British electors is the
known advantages of a protective
tariff system, while keeping its disad-
Nantages, its burdens, its losses and its
mlstortunes carefully out of sight. He
would carry protection to a certain
point and make the applications of II
In certain fields only, and there draw
the line. If he could do that he would
De the greatest miracle-worker in no.
utlcal history. But he cannot.
Two extracts from his Glasgow 3D.
dress will expose this radical fault in
his logic or his fairness. He calls
Americas tariff "abominable.' and he
speaks truly. How can he helm seeing
that 1t is simply the perfected fruit of
the principle to which he has now
become convert? We know o,,r.
selves how much twaddle there has
peen about infant industries" and
now many promises to remove or lower
tariff duties when Industry was able TO
stand alone without them. No sucb
promise has ever been kept mr. avar
VIII be. When poisonous Mont
springs up from seed that you your
SEN nave planted, you must either cut
II down Or leave it as 1t Is.
Inc protective system appeals to
collective greed. It's beneficiaries doro
not refuse to ADMIT others 70 tboi,,
privileged circle lest the outsiders
combine to take away their advantage
from them. The necessary resuIt 10
legislative favoritism to every indns-
Try that can command the least follow
fVner
ing at the polls; and a tariff that is
atroelous. abominable, the father of i,
1quity and the mother of trusts The
essential point is that there Is no s+on-
ping place along the line Accent vour
protective principle. and all the rest
OF It, down to the bloated trust and
the people robbed and impoverished
1olloWs as matter of course and tho
consequence OF inevitable economic
law When Mr.. Chamberlain proposes
TO impose moderate tariff on a few
commodities, he must know, because
ne is familiar with the history of no
lions and the operation of economic
principles, that, If successful be 10
preparing for his country in the fu-
ture a fall to exactly that level of eco
nomic mistake and misfortune which
ne so strongly reprobates In us
Again, he says that in dealing with
the colonies they would be satisfied
with very moderate preference in
British markets. "They would reserve
10 us the trade we already enjoy, and
would also arrange their toriffs l., A.
future in order not to start industries
IN competition with those already in
existence in the mother country; and
not only would they enable us to re-
tain our trade with them, but thew
would give us preference on MI trade
done with them by our foreign COM