Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-26

be good forgetters and it is therefore
about time for some people to use
the old anti-tariff cry to advance their
political interests. But there are two
generations who emember the Will
son-Gorman days-the hard times of
Mr.. Cleveland's last administration
and the improved conditions which
have come and stayed under the Ding
ley law.
The German Tariff.
Germany has adopted discrimi-
mating tariff to take effect next
March. That this new tariff will prob
ably be to the detriment of the United
States is very likely, for that was
largely the purpose Of it's enactment.
Some very earnest low tariff advo-
Gates insist that we should at once
initiate Crockett's historic coon and
come down. modifying our tariff
laws to meet the views of our great
German competitors. The proposition
is that we should make a deal with
Germany agreeing to give her manu-
facturers better rates of access to our
markets than we do to Great Britain.
Just how long Great Britain, would
submit to this discrimination it is easy
to guess. Last year our imports and
exports to and from those two great
countries were as follows:
Exports to Germany. $50. S193,S41,636
Imports from Germany. 1S,13S, 089
Balance in our favor ....$ 75,703,547
"The balance of trade in our favor
on our trade with Great Britain ex-
ceeded both our imports and exports in
our trade with Germany by $36,126,31
Would it be reciprocity to give lower
rates of duty to the nation which buys
$193,S41,636 of us as against the ma
ton which lets most of our goods into
her ports free and which purchased of
us last wear S523,192,320?
Certainly discrimination like this is
not to be called reciprocity.
But it is said that our German
trade will greatly suffer if we do not
make discrimination in favor Of that
country. Perhaps it will. But let us
see just wherein it may suffer. AS 1
have said we exported s193,S41, 636
worth of our products to that country
last year. 1t included copper which
Germany must have and which she
uses in her manufacturing, amounting
to ........ SD, 224,339
Il included raw cotton :. :. S7,392,063
Raw tobacco -. ..... 1859, 4S3
Wood used in manufacture 1,295,201
Lumber ........ 1,S5S, 496
Fertllizers 100000. 2,5ls,6al
SosNA
Total ..... -. ....... $3.50, 252, 496
These things she does not produce
and uses them in her own manufac-
lures. She does not propose to shut
out the raw materials from her own
factories. There are still other like
items in her purchases from US but
this only leaves about S79,0O00O0 that
her new tariff will affect, which is
about five per cent of our exports
"On the other hand our imports
from Germany have been mainly of
goods in competition with our own.
OF her imports from us sixty per cent
were of goods properly classed as raw
materials. Our imports from Germany
have been twenty-five per cent only
of raw materials. If Germany insiste
in charging the United States higher
tariff duties than she does to other
countries it may become necessary to
provide for such discrimination by an
additional duty to be levied against
such country as discriminates against
the United States.
from Germany We have given her
great carrying trade and have been
one of her good customers. Last year
there were imported into the United
States in American ships goods of the
value of $751; ,545,512, but at the same
time we imported in German bottoms
S142,143, 200 worth of goods. After
deducting the raw materials we bought
more competitive goods from Germany
last year than she bought Of us.
The Square Deal.
THE present occupant of the White
House has so deported himself as to
add greatly to the affection and es-
TEEN in which he has been held by
the American people. He showed him
self a true soldier in war and his re-
cent successful efforts in the interest
of peace have not only added immeas-
urably to his renown, but has adj
vanced our country in the respect of
all mankind. 1t is not enough for a