Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-11-19

There is hardly newspaper to ou
table that does not have something to say
about revision of the tariff Republican papers
of this part of the country at least are uniting
in a demand for tariff revision which will fore
stall the Democrats, who might otherwise be
able to make an effective campaign on revis
son platform four years hence.
1t is reasonable to suppose that tariff law
which is ten years old has been outgrown in
many respects during the marvellous material
growth of the country during that period. The
Republican party, however, is somewhat divi-
&ded on the question. Certain sections of the
East consider the law good enough as it is, and
are denominated "stand-patters." Other sec
lions of the East desire that pet industries
shall continue to be protected but that reel pro-
cal relations shall be established with Canada,
whereby our tariff on Canadian farm produce
shall be reduced or removed, and Canadian
tariffs on manufactured articles reduced or re-
moved. This scheme is naturally fuvored by
certain manufacturing centres of the East and
opposed in agricultural communities
There is much the alignment here in
the West the jobbers and miller of Minneapolis,
St Paul and Duluth wishing to remove the
Tar1f wall or DOtn OaraQa ana the united
States, and the farmers wishing to retain it.
To the extent that the matter has been dis
cussed in the agricultural communities of the
West, it has been made to appear that tho
farmers were nd-patters and opposed to any
reduction of the tariff Whatever. The American |
Protective Tariff League, association of
manufacturers who have fattened tariff
protected industries for generation, have been
especially active in opposing reduction of the
tariff on Canadian farm produce, in order thus
10 enlist'the support of the farmers in maintain
ing the law as it is. For years and years. the
farmers has been building up the manufacture
ing centers of the East by his purchase of
American made goods, paying therefor higher
price than necessary in order to develop our {
''infant INDUSTRIES and the farmers have been t
wise i'll doing it for they now have a great
market for farm produce IS
But the time has arrived now when the c
tariff should be reduced to a point where c
foreign competition can enter if prices are ex- v
horbitant. Recently the steel trust sold rails I
in Canada for SO ton less than they sold the
same rails in the United States. This is
wrong, The shipper "pays the freight" in il
the long run, and should to it this tariff is [
reduced to point where foreign competition Ct
can enter when prices unreasonaby high. p
This is only illustrations, but many others S
could be cited. It is notorious fact that e,
harvesting machine companies sell their ma L
chimes cheaper abroad than they do here. The al
farmer and other consumers would be the direct m
beneficiary of general revision of the tariff al
We would not have the farmers of the hi
seventh district thru Mr.. Volstead their repre- pc
relent for one moment their oppo- We
sition to the removal of the duty Canadian tt
wheat but it is we'll for him not to be carried fiji
INTO the camp of the ultra-stand- patters, the 81
favored manufacturers of the East. Revision fl
is no1rling, the president will probably call an
71rS' session of Congress to conz1der 1t, and III
- nnesuta wants to stand untedly with the
president.
AS gentleman who is very close TO Mr.. ST
Volstead put it the other day. "When it b
comes to any serious revision of the tariff, the al
seventh district is not going to block the re- e'
form on account of the tariff on wheat but we in
demand that the giant corporations of the East CO
let go of their pet tariff first" La
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