Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-05-12
WHY NOT STAND PAT2
For What Reason Should There Be
Any Tampering With the
Present Tariff.

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Any Tampering With the
Present Tariff:
Why should there be any tampering
with the present Tariff, as Free Trad
ers are proposing that their should?
1t is working satisfactorily. All the
strenuous efforts that have been made
to create opposition to it in Protect
ionist ranks have ended in failure. 1t
is giving American labor and Ameri-
can capital the degree of Protection
that it was designed to give; it is yield
ing the Government sufficient rev.
enue; the business Of the country Is
adjusted to it; and under it our foreign
trade is making progress unexampled
in the history of the republic. Why
upset these conditions in order to ex-
pertinent with something unknown?
Do the opponents ofthe Dingley law
fully realize what has been accom-
| plished under it and by it since it went
into effect? Since 1897 our manufac-
tured exports have j mped from $277,-
900, 900 to $408, 900, 900 for the fiscal year
of 1903; our agricultural exports from
$6s4, 900, 900 to $s73, 900, 900, and our to-
tai exports from 1850, ,OoO,O0O to ST.
425, 100000 Our imports, in the same
period, have grown from S765, 1000, 900
to 81, OPS, 900, 0OO-pretty effectual evil
dence that the present Tariff is not
shutting out foreign commodities to
any alarming extent-while our total
foreign trade has increased from ST.
100000 to nearly $4,000, 900, 900.
Our experts to every quarter of the
globe, in this interval, have grown
amazingly-to Europe so per cent, to
North America rs per cent, to South
America 80 per cent, to Asia and
Oceanica so per cent, to Africa and
other countries 100 per cent.
Since 1899 there has not been year
that the Dingley law has not produced
ample revenue. In 1900 it yielded
surplus of $50, 900, 900, in 1901 a surplus
of $7S, 900, 900, in 1902 surplus of S91,-
100000, in 1903 surplus of S54 900 600.
and it premises to yield comfortable
surplus during the current fiscal year,
BY means of the revenue that this law
has produced, we have been enabled
not only to pay the ordinary expenses
of Government, but to maintain big
gold reserve-a thing absolutely in
dispensable to the maintenance of the
N nf
silver circulation; to put the new re-
public 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 of
the war with Spain, and at the same
time keep down the national debt. On
June 80, 1908, the close of the last fiscal
year, the net amount of the national
debt was 1926, 900, ,0OO-a debt smaller
than that existing at the end of the
second Cleveland administration.
There is not nation on the globe
that does not view this showing with
pangs of jealously. Great Britain
would willingly barter her birthright,
figuratively speaking, to be able to
make similar showing. Germany,
France and Austria Hungary stand
astounded at the vast results that have
been achieved by the United States
under half decade of "Dingleyism.
Why is it that it is in our own country
alone that persons can be found who
cannot appreciate what has been ac.
complished underlthe present Tariff?
The only apparent explanation is that
there is lesion somewhere in their
mental makeup. Fortunately, these
persons constitute only small minor
ity of the American electorate-New
York Commercial"