The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-10
IFIy0
STAND P AT?
For Reason Should There Be
Any a am perins With the
81 resent Tariff?

u T.sSSEily# should there be any tamper-
ing with the present Tariff, as Free
57raaers are proposing that there
should? It is working satisfactorily.
the strenuous efforts that have
been made to create opposition to it
III II Protectionist ranks have ended in
failure lis giving American labor
S5sansi american capital the degree of
Protection that it was designed TO
give; it is yielding the Government
sufficient revenue; the business Of the
country is adjusted to it; and under
si our foreign trade is making progress
in the history of the re-
public Why upset these conditions
in order to experiment with some
thing unknown?
Dothe opponents Of the Dinsley law
fully realize what has been accom-
gplished under it and by it since it
went into effect? Since 1897 our man,
fractured exports have jumped from
ss277, 100000 to $40S00O,OO0 for the fis-
cal year Of 1908; our agricultural ex-
ports from 1854, 100000 to sS73, 100000,
and our total exports from $780,
sSEOo0,o00.to $1.425,0 100000 Our imports,
lin the same period, have grown from
S765,000,O00 to SLOPE. 900, OO0-pretty
#effectual evidence that the present
Tariff is not shutting out foreign com
modities to any alarming extent
while our total foreign trade has in
creased from S1,s15,0OC,oo0 TO nearly
s2,500,0oO,0OO. Our exports to every
88SSquartero the globe, in this interval,
have grown amaZingly-to Europe
#50%per3cent.. to North America Is per
cent, to South America. 80 per cent,
nc. Asia and Oceanica so per cent, to
Africa and other countries 120 per
cent
Since 500 there has not been year
4 that the Dingley law has not pro-
t1uced ample revenue. In 1900 it
Welded & a surplus of $4,000, 900. in
I901555a surplus of s7S.0Oo,oG0. in 1902
surplus of s91,0a0,0G0, in 1903 a sur
plus of S54e00O,O00, and it promises
TO yield "a comfortable surplus during
ssthe current fiscal year BY means of
the revenue that this law has pro-
!$ttitced, y we have been enabled not on
3 to pay the ordinary expenses of
Government, but to maintain big
gold reservea thing absolutely in
b dispensable to themaintenance of the
integrity of our enormous paper and
silver circulation to put the new re-
publ G OF Cuba on its feet: to restore
peace in the; Philippines; to build Up
our navy: to buy out the old Panama
Canal Company; to defray the cost
sst,f he war with Spain, and at the
6 same time Keep down the National
debt. On June 80. 1908. the close of
& the last fiscal year the net amount
#sof the national debt was 1926, 100000
the end OF the second Cleveland ad-
Z rninistration.
There is not a nation on the globe
that does not view this showing with
pangs of Jealousy Great Britain
would Willingly barter her brthright.
figurativeIy speaking, to be able to
make a similar showing. Germany,
France and Austria Hungary stand
s astCunded at the vast results that
nave been achieved by the United
States under half decade of ding
Ieyisni. Why is it that it is in our
own country alone that persons can
he found who cannot appreciate what
4 has been accomplished under the pres
emit Tariff? The only apparent eX-
PLANTATION is that there is lesion
somewhere in their mental makeup.
i Fortunately, these persons constitute
only u small minority OF the American
= electorate.-New York Commercial