The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-09-06

We Should Be Ready 20 Play h
Same Game.
"The favorite device Of the stand.
pattors 10 construct a maximum aud
minimum tarh. taking the present
rates as the minimum. would only
complicate the situation further That
IS 10 say. any such device, instead OF
giving us a basis on which 10 make
bargains with foreign powers. would
be generally accepted as a declaration
OF tariff warfare and there would be a
prompt and an but unanimous effort
made by the nations Of continental
Europe 70 place prohibitory rates on
the imports Of all our finished prod
ucts-New York Journal Of Com
merce
But that is precisely what other gov
ernments have done. Germany has
marked up her tariffs enormously so
as 10 mark them back again 10 the
former rates-snd O in all cases as
low "a the former rates-when we
shall haYe been ~bulldoEed into mark
Ing down Level and unvarying
tariff for the e-spescial benefit OF Ger
many's competitive exports.
Spain has lately gone into the mark
ing up business with the same end In
view. On the basis OF her marked up
rates Spain now proposes 10 make con
cessions. n II Is understood that
somebody in Washington-the Third
House" Il is sometimes caIled-is
silly enough TO nibble al the bait and
10 seriously contemplate a limited
reciprocity deal with Spain under Sec
ton 3 OF the Dingley Law.
Peanut diekers Of this sort do not
have 10 run the gauntlet Of the Senate.
They can be put in force By proclama-
ton merely.
u Is proposed, ia return for SPANS
splendid generosity IN giving TO Ger
tain American exports OF the uon-com-
petitive sort the benefit Of the tariff
which prevailed prior to the marking
up. thimblerig game. 70 reduce our
tariff rates on Spanish exports Of
arEols. paintings, st%atutary, brandies.
c~hampaEnes. vermuth and stiIi wines.
Thus we shall consent 10 be forced
into giving an easier right Of way into
our market TO at least one product
that will prove seriously competitive.
Next 20 France. Spain is the largest
producer OF sull wines. and she pro
duces these No much cheaper than
France that she is able 10 export large
quantities 10 that country.
still wine production IS an impor-
tant and a growing industry In the
United States. II is one OF the leading
Industries OF the Pacific coast. while
Ia some Of the eastern states Il brings
into operation a million or more acres
Of land. and employs some thousands
81 wage earners and several millions
OF capital
by so much as We increase by lower
duties 0ur purchase Of SPANS cheap
wines we shall decrease the market
for American stin wines and infict
Injury upon American agriculture,
American labor and American capital
Such discrimination against an inn
portant home industry would De open
TO adverse criticism even n adequate
compensation we're given and the deal
was a square deal. but TO sell out the
grape aud wine makers OF a
dozen states for SO paltry a ~considera.
ton rs the marking down OF tariff
schedules previously marked up for
the express purpose cf being marked
down places this country In the pitiful
/ attitude Of the little boy forced By
fear OF the big bully TO swap jack
knivoa insight and unseen.
n we are going TO be bulldoEcd By
foreigners into lowering nj tarin
schedules, let use al least have some
thing Ia bulldoze back with. Let as
follow the European fashion and be
prepared 10 do some marking mp on
our own account. The McCieaFy bill
provides for this. II Is better ON an
accounts to hold TO the level aud I'm.
partial tariff that We now haye-a
tann that treat an products Of all
aations %texcepting Cubal precisely
llike-hut n foreign nations insist
ipon tariff EAT lights, hen the Amer.
can cat should not be without claws
Good Politics and Common Sense.
The decision IN favor OF the stand
sat policy on the tariff question Is
FOOD politics and common sense The
ime for making a breach lu tarn
Ealls ls not yet a. hand. The presl.
lent was elected, IN 1904, on a tariR
platform sound Ia every timber. lie
wcoiyed the largest popular vote, aud
De largest popular majority ever
given ia a candidate Tor once 10 the
worlds history. That tremendous In
iorsement by the people 81 the United
states was m unfailing index OF the