The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-22
PROTECTIONISTS
WANT THE EARTH
Old Cry Raised by the Highly
Favored Ones.
LEAGUE ISSUES AN ADDRESS
RECIPROCITY IDEA DECLARED
UNSOUND.

ntEW YORK, Jan. 21-The nineteenth
~ annual meeting of the American
Protective Tariff league was held
today The report Of the secretary
showed a membership of SIS in twenty
two different states
The election If officers resulted as
follows: President. Charles i. Moore.
New York: first vice president. Colonel
a. C. Payne, New York. second vice
president, Joseph T. Thropp, Massa-
chusetts: treasurer and general secre-
tary. Wilbur T. Wakemsn, New York
In the board of managers D. ". Ferry
OF Michigan succeeded Senator Francis
=. Warren Of Wyoming.
The following executive committee
was elected: William Barbour, New
Jersey. chairman Frank 81. Cheney,
Connecticut. Governor Franklin Nun
ply. New Jersey: David l. Einstein.
New York and William T. Draper
Massachusetts.
Address Issued.
The tariff league unanimously adopt
cd an address "to the protectionists OF
the United States" The address says:
1T may be that considerations of
sentiment or even Of party eXpediency
seem to party managers wiser guides in
some particular emergency than rigid
adherence to the national policy of pro
lection. tt may be that q party or
ganizat ton can take that view and act
on it without injury to itself. but such
q course can no more be pursued L.
an organization dedicated TO the cause
of protection than an individual can
depart from the line of rectitude in
order to benefit others.
Home Market Cry.
with imports q a billion dollars for
1903. being S26.000.0G0 above the high
est mark previously reached and with
exports amounting to S1.4S465S, 12I,
nearly SCI. 900 900 greater than the to-
tai for any preceding year, We are un-
able to perceive the necessity FOR the
abandonment OF protection in order
that our foreign trade may he in-
creased. With "a foreign trade aggre-
eating two and q half billions of dol
lars and steadily growing, it would
seem that we are already getting a
fair share Of world traffic. But e
must not be forgotten that our internal
trade reaches thirty billions Of dollars
Yearly. To this care and preservation
OF the great home market, with its
trade OF thirty billions. protection
stands especially committed.
Reciprocity Unsound.
an annual meeting assembled. we re
affirm tie position taken by lhr tariff
league adopted on Jan. Is, 1903 and
declare:
THAT reciprocity in competitive
products is unsoUnd in principle, per-
nicious in practice and condemned by
experience. IT is contrary alike to the
rational policy of protection. to the
fair treatment Of domestic producers
and to friendly relations with foreign
countries.
ut is neither ethical nor economy,
since # seeks to benefit some industries
by the sacrifice Of others. Reciprocity
in competitive products is the policy
of favOritism. It tends TO array in
Gustry against industry. section
against section at home, and to To-
meut commercial retaliation and plant
entagonism abroad. The true Ameri-
can policy is the protection of all the
opportunities and possibilities OF the
American market FOR American enter
prises. and fair, equal trade treatment
for all other countries