Arizona republican., 1903-09-27


 The Englishman. on the contrary, re- liglously reads the heavy leaders in his favorfte paper, reads the speeches of his favorite statesmen-the same being ronderous and long-and glances at the dispatches. Nor does the Eng fish newspaper have Q. circulation equal to the American. It is true that a few of the English journals nave a tre- mendous circulation, but it will doubt less surprise MT. Knowles to learn that The Arizona Republican enjoys a cir. culation which is half as large as the circulation of the great London Times. But that's the one trouble with MT. Knowles and nearly all of the Eng lishmen whose attitude toward Ameri- cans is the patroniZing attitude of the superior mortal who is willing to ad- init a few virtues in d backwoods rela- tive-his mind is not open to believing anything that was not taught him in his boyhood. He utterly refuses to ad- init that the American can possibly know as much as he does.
 Unfortunately for MT. Knowles, he merely makes a spectacle of himself in asserting that the proposed Cham berlain-Balfour programme of retalia tory tariffs is not directed mainly against the United States and Ger many. For three years English manu- lecturers have been making an out cry against the American invasion" ." and English statesmen have been forced to heed the demand for protec- tion. When such an intelligent Eng lishman as Mir. Knowles has failed to keep track of the situation it argues his failure to read the news from his home.
 The British Blue Book, just issued, points out that in the last dozen years British exports to America have de- clined $47,500,OO0 a year, and exports to all non-British countries have declined s90, 00O, 900. It shows that while this enormous decline has been taking place, the imports from the United States have increased by leaps and bounds. It shows that there is an eX- cess of SS00,0O0,000 a year in imports over exports; and while as an offset against this excess there must be set s312, GOO, 900 a year income from foreign investments, and s45O,O000O0 a year in earnings iron: the British merchant fleet in foreign trade, there still re- mains a balance of trade against the United Kingdom to the extent of S37.- 500.000 a year. At the meeting of the Canadian Manufacturers association in Toronto q few days ago MT. Cyrus A Birge Of Hamilton, president. pleaded for more protection because United States and German goods are being shipped in and slaughtered on our mar kets. He wanted a fiscal policy of na- tional self-defense"
 In coming down off the fence and taking his position with MT. Chamber lain in favor of retaiiatory tariffs (against the United States and Ger many. of course). MT. Balfour said on thursday:
 He wished to break away from the bonds in which Englishmen had en- tangled themselves Whether a fiscal system which might be suited to a free-trade nation in a world of free traders remains suited to a free-trade nation in a world of protectionists, he did not consider an open question. The only alternative is to do to foreign na- tions what they always do to each other, and instead of appealing to econ onic theories which they wholly disbe- lieve. to use fiscal inducements which they may thoroughly understand.
 In plain English, MT. Balfour now agrees to retaliatory tariff which will enable the British government to say to the United States: Enter into a reciprocity treaty with us or your good and products will be shut out"
 Mr. Knowles complains bitterly that comparisons of the trade conditions in this country and England mean an unfriendly feeling toward England. H takes it for granted that when an American paper tells it's readers that an epoch marking policy nas been adopted by English statesmen and that hereafter America must look upon the growth of d protection party in Eng land. as a menace to protection in the United States, the mere statement of these facts is proof of an nnfriendly spirit toward all things English; that a dispassionate discussion of MT. Chamberlain aims is proof positive of intense hatred for that statesman.
 This is absurd. Observant Americans have long Wondered why British states men failed to see that the salvation of British commerce depended upon Q change in British fiscal policy-the abandonment of free-trade for the prin- ciple of tariffs. Now, in the words of Balfour, Tariff reform is indispensa- ble as a weapon for compelling foreign nations to modify their protection sys- tems.' But MT. Knowles can rest as- sured that Americans generally are too broad to entertain the slightest feeling