Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-16
1MpOsINa oN PopuLAR cREpULI

IMPOSINU ON fOFDLAh GhhDDLIIl'
The reciprocity conference which is to
meet az Chicago this week. though it ap-
pears to be sternly frowned upon by the
administration, will be confronted with
questions Of serious Importance to the
United States, and questions with which
the administration and congress will soon
have to deal. 1t will be impossible for
President Roosevelt and the republican
leaders to keep the tariff question from
coming to the fore. 1t is already pressing,
both at home and abroad. Resentment
against the United States on account Of
the Dingley schedules is fast spreading all
over the world. Our foreign markets
threaten soon to be seriously curtailed. AL
ready imports are enormously increasing
over exports, in consequence of this feel
ing Of resentment, and In spite Of high
duties. Other nations are making more
and more trouble for the manufacturers of
American sewing machines, typewriters,
electrical machinery, leather and shoes and
the farmers and stock growers are being
denied markets for their breadstuffs, fruit
and cattle And here at home
the situation is as grave. These same
exorbitant Dingley schedules are operating
to enormously increase the cost Of living
and to put the added price Of necessities
into the already overiowing pockets of
the protected manufacturers.-World
Herald
The editor of the World Herald can
compress more ignorance and mendacity
into half IL column than any other living
man in America. There is absolutely no
truth in the assertion that the national
reciprocity conference is to be sterny
frowned upon by the administration, al
though President Roosevelt and men,
bers of his cabinet cannot with propriety
either directly or indirectly take part in
its proceedings. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat, the leading republican paper
of the Mississippi valley, prints the fol-
lowing dispatch concerning the presi-
dents attitude with regard to the i'm
pending conventions:
President Roosevelt from his home in
oyster Bay, will watch the proceedings of
the national reciprocity conference. That
the inspiration of the presidents interest
in the general movement is to be launched
here will be felt by the participants in the
conference was evidenced more than a
week ago, when he summoned Alvin H.
Sanders, chairman Of the committee on ar
rangements, to Oyster Bay for a discus
sion.
He wished to- talk of the question at
issue and to urge the Importance of franz
ing policy to carry on the campaign that
will approach the subject of reciprocity
which, in a sense, means tariff revision
in the proper and most practical manner.
The scope of the convention and it's
probable plans were gone over at length in
/ .l.-
welt and Mr. Sanders, and a list of the dele
cations named to attend the Chicago gath
ering. as far as known. was placed in the
hands of the executive for his guidance as
to where the movement is taking root
On his return to Chicago. Mr.. Sanders,
while not wishing to discuss the particu-
| lar phases of the reciprocity question gone
! over with the president, expressed himself
| as thoroughly convinced that such difficult
| ties as the leaders of the movement may
| meet in the course of their campaign will
| be with the legislative rather than the ex-
ecutive branch of the government
On the third page of the same issue
of the World-Herald, that bemoans the
awful condition of the country owing
to the enormous increase of imports
over exports, may be found an exhibit
compiled by the bureau Of statistics Of
the Department of Commerce, which
shows that the exports for the past fiscal
| year are the largest on record. The
growth in the expectation of manufac-
lures is shown to have largely exceeded
the growth in population. Not only is
this country holding its own in the ex-
port of manufactured products, but
America is rapidly outstrlpping all other
countries in the expectation of fabrics
produced In its mills and factories
1t is simply amazing how any intelli-
gent man who has any regard for the
truth can represent the situation at
home as grave in the face of the unex-
ampled and unprecedented prosperity
which the people of America. and espe-
cially those of the west, are now enjoy
! ing. Concede that the cost of living
has increased within the past few years,
the opportunity for employment at good
wages has more than kept pace, and II
the consumer of the products Of the
farm, orchard and cattle range pays
more for what he eats, the agricultural
class are the beneficiaries, as well as the
merchants and manufacturers.
And now we are told that the sugges-