The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-10-06
SCENTS TRADE WAR
Prominent Pit'sburger Sees
Danger in High Tariff Rates.
Commercial Contest Is Ap-
preaching, Says This Man.
Declares That Revision Must
Be Made; His Reasons.
Has Been to Europe and Knows
Whereof He Speaks.

Pittsburg, Oct 4-"The United
States is threatened with the greatest
commercial war in it's history. / am
satisfied that only immediate revision of
tariff is the solution"
George H. Anderson, directors of the
Chamber of Commerce, who has return
ed home from his visit to Liege, Bel
GUM, where he went to represent the
Chamber of Commerce at the interna-
tional congress which was held there
last month, made this remark on his re-
turn from abroad. Mr. Anderson con-
tinued: lee CON-
''The position of the United States
government on the tariff question is be-
ing discussed very freely and ably in
all parts of Europe. Unless we recede
from our present position and the SEN
ate supports the stand taken by the
president, we will have the greatest
commercial war on our hands after next
March that this country has ever seen.
Germany is leading the fight against
us, but she is being supported ably by
nearly all the other foreign nations. Up
to the present time England has not
passed any retaliatory laws against us,
but the sentiment is gradually veering
that way, and | would not be at all
surprised to see the mother country fall
in line
"When we consider that we annually
export one thousand millions of articles
to the various foreign countries, and
that we have a profit of five or six
hundred millions it can be seen easily
where our wealth is coming from. To
nurse that business and to continue to
dispose of our goods to people across
the water, there must be revision of
the tariff, and that can be done without
sacrificing the justice or equity of our
tariff principles one iota.
"When the Dingley tariff bill was
enacted and the unwise provisions of
the old Wilson measure were replaced
with beneficial ones, an additional 20
per cent was added to the tariff, SO that
if any protests were made that amount
could be dropped, and our tariff bill re-
main at Just about where it should be.
The protest has been made, and the
president now wants the senate to re-
move this extra 90 per cent, which was
placed there for the specific purpose of
being reduced if the necessity arose. If
this should be done this looked for
commercial war could and would be
averted. How far-reaching that war
would prove or how it would affect this
as well as other countries no man can
but it would be reciprocal
measure which would please our foreign
consumers, restore good feeling and
would not prove injurious to the wei
fare of this nation. .ps f
81 was surprised and hurt to find that
many cities did not send delegates to
this great gathering" said MIR. Ander-
son. Indeed, it was most deplorable
that the United States was not better
represented Out of about 500 delegates
that assembled, there were only nine of
them from this country, and of this
number Pittsburg had two. Philadel-
phia, New York, San Francisco, and
New Orleans were also represented, the
other three coming from other sections
of the country.
"While this congress had no lawmak-
ing power or authority, yet | think that
the questions we discussed there are of
such vast moment and Importance that
thew are bound to be taken up later
on and seriously considered by the legis-
lative bodies of all advanced countries.
1t was decided that for time at least
this congress would meet annually, but
the place of meeting for next year has
not been decided on yet"