The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-04
FREE FOOD OR
HIGH TARIFF.
Pcnderous Pamphlets Stun the
Public Ear in England.
JOE CHAMBERLAIN'S LATEST
NO SIGNS OF DoDGING THE IS
SUE RAISED.

I have refused to accept the gospel OF
! Golden. and yet. although they ought,
! according TO its dogmas. to be in the
/ last stage of depression and decline,
/ they have grown during the las
twenty years in wealth, population and
trade and in everything that goes to
make up the greatness of a nation"
| That is the keynote of Joseph Cham
/ berlain's manifesto, which Will be pub
1 lished Oct. in the form of a preface
/ 10 shilling pamphlet entitled Mr.
/ Chamberlain's Proposals; What They
1 Mean and What We Shall Gain by
! Them, by G. A. Vince, secretary to
/ Mr.. Chamberlains tariff organization.
/ In view of the vigOrewith which the
\ war of pamphleteers has again come in
vogue in English politics the publisher
/ has appropria tely given Mr.. Chamber
/ lain's pronOuncement deep red covers, !
I in significant contrast with the unde-
/ cided blue-gray Of Premier Balfour's
academic treaties on the financial ques-
/ ton.
Making Aggressive Fight.
! Mr. Chamberlain does not mince mat
| tiers. With aggression he carries the
/ war into the enemy's camp.
Those who maintain" he writes. 'in
a spirit Of blind Obscurantism, the alb
sOlute inspiration of an Anticipated doc
trine win have much to explain"
/ His remarks are addressed to per
/ sons of all political opinions since the
( questions now raised are not neceS-
| sarily matters of party politics, nor in
! deed is it likely that the issues will be
ultimately decided on strictly party
/ lines" He begins by saying:
! 1T is difficult to believe that the re-
suits of the investigation will not con-
/ vince every impartial man of the ne
cessity for some reconstruction of the
| system which has remained stationary
| and unaltered for more than half
lcentury while every other policy has
been modified and adapted to meet
modern requirements
Continuing, Mr.. Chamberlain points
| out that the property Of the working
| classes has increased in greater pro-
portion in the protected countries than
in the United Kingdom, and says:
Golden Berated.
Free trade if it had ever existed.
| might have secured for US all that It's
! promoters promised, but free imports
without free trade have brought us
/ face TO face with problems which never
1 entered into CObden's calculations. We
know that the idea Of a united empire
did not appeal TO him, and that he re-
/ garded colonies as an encumbrance 10
] be got rid of as soon as possible. The
! little Englanders who follow his lead
/ are not likely to be moved by any con-
sideratiOn arising out Of our new found
/ pride and faith in our distant ktns-
men. But what would Golden have
/ said if he had fOreseen that the trades
unions whose existence he deprecated
/ would be successful in protecting labor
] in a score of ways, tending to increase
| the rate Of wages and to raise the
standard of living would Golden, as
J the representative Of the manufactur-
ing class, still have maintained that
while the manufacturer was artificially
prevented from obtaining labor at the
/ lowest rate he ought to rest content
when the products of foreign labor. I'M
/ trammeled by any regulations and leg
islatiOn to which he has to submit,
Undersell him in his own market? Cob
| den's scheme was at least consistent.
1t was free labor as Wei as free i'm
ports; but free imports combined with
protected labor, is neither consistent
/ nor profitable to any of the parties con-
Cerned."
Exports Stationary.
Mr.. Chamberlain holds that the con-
1 soling theory that other countries are
/ running themselves by b0unties and
important duties hardly comedies with
! the fact that British exports have been
/ practically stationary for twelve years
! while those Of other countries have in
progress continues for a few years
longer they will have left us far be-
hind"
/ Dealing with the colonies desire for
! better commercial treatment, Mr..
| Chamberlain said:
1T is no answer to offer them an
| imperial council, which they have al
| ready refused. IF we reject their pro-
pOsals for reciprocity we shall be in
| great danger of losing out present
trade with them, as well as the pros
poets of its future expansion. It is en-
| tIrely owing to the growth Of our col
/ Onial trade that the actual and heavy
decline in our imports to foreign pro-
/ tected countries has been concealed in
our general returns. Do the stern adj
/ vocates Of unrestricted imports con-
slider it satisfactory that we should
have nothing to bargain with and con-
tinue to be grateful for such crumbs as
fall from the rich mans table in the
shape. at the best of the most favored
nation clause, which only gives US the
/ benefits Of arrangements previously
made with sole reference to the inter
! estS Of other persons. and i'm respect
whereto we had never been consulted?
! Is it not childish TO ignore the fact that
| by bargaining. on equal terms other ma
tions have been able to promote their
I special interests and that if we also
! had in our hands weapons of retalia-
( ton, we should probably De able 10
bring the world much nearer a uni
veTsal free trade system than it has
( ever been since Cobden's timer Our
/ free food friends vii have 10 be a little
more definite and more accurate.
Blessing or Curse.
They have to explain why the trans
I fer Of taxation, say from tea to bread.
would be disastrous. though it bene-
/ fitted our industries and restored Their,
( to something like the relative position
! which they enjoyed twenty years ago.
( They viii have to decide once for all
! whether foreign bounties are a bless
/ ing or a curse whether dumping is
i a philanthropic operation, whereby for
/ eigners are endeavoring to secure the
! welfare of this country or an insidi-
Gus attempt to ruin our industries ana
I obtain our markets for themselves.
/ They viii not be allowed to evade this
question by the cheap device Of abus-
\ ing their ornaments"
Dealing passiOnately with the accu-
sation that his policy is intended TO re-
duce the workman and his family to
starvation" Mr.. Chamberlain writes:
Let them ut least admit that, right
I h or wrongly. this policy is propounded
I in the interests Of the masses OF the
/ people. Of the poor much more than OF
! The rich. and that those who are re-
! sponsible for il have earned by strenu-
I Gus endeavor in the past the RIGHT 10
resent the charge of neglecting the in