The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-03-16
PRESENT TARIFF STATUS.
Vel directed Revision Necessary Tor
Relief of American
Consumers.

The passage by the German reichstas
OF Emperor Williams special tariff bills
postpones for year and four months
the tariff war which Germany had an
nounced her intention To begin upon
our products on the LIST OF March.
These bills authorize the German
government TO go on until June 80, 1907,
admitting our products at the same tariff
rates which Germany assesses upon i'm
ports from countries with which she has
reciprocity treaties. The arrangement
says the ST. Louis Republic. leaves our
commercial relations with Germany 40
the same unsatisfactory and threaten
ing condition which called forth tn
protest and the warning OF the reciproc.
lily convention In August
We maintain undated the Dingley
tariff boycott on German trade and Ger
many only postpones her threat OF re
taliation until another and final session
OF the present congress shall have been
held and new congress has come into
being.
REIMBURSEMENT, for mutual benefit. OF
our commercial relations with Ger
many, and with other nations which
stand toward us in the same position as
Germany. was rendered impossible in
the present session by the narrow, self.
ish and stiff-necked opposition OF Ding.
ley standpatters in the senate, and by
pact between the president and ths
speaker 10 choke of tariff discussion
in the house.
In the short session OF next winter
the Republican congress will do no bet
ter than IL has already done Relief
can come only from the Sixtieth con-
gress, 10 be elected in November OF
this year. The issue SO sharply
raised between the interests repre-
sented in the reciprocity convention
and the standpatters in Washington
Will necessarily. therefore. be fought
out at the polls in the election OF the
new congress
During the campaign Democrats
will OF course. aggressively attack
the trade killing excesses OF the Ding
ley schedules, pledging themselves &c
initiate and support such reciprocity
arrangements as will open wide the
ports OF foreign nations 10 American
products and extend American mar
kets in every quarter where demand
Exists for our goods.
Moderate and well-directed tariff re
vision TO relieve the American con
sumner OF the onerous tribute now paid
10 specially protected interests. and to
rurb the monopoly taxing powers o'
the great industrial trusts is likely
also. to be prominent in Damocratic
platforms and in Democratic discus
sion between now and the November
elections.
The protective system was not built
In q day. and IL cannot be tore dowr
in a year. nor. perhaps. in n decade
Discriminating duties and export
bounties by other nations may make
IT necessary TO approach with circum.
spection the complicated task OF cut
ting out robberies Of the Dingley act:
but the task must be performed. and
the Democratic party is ready 10 un
dertake IT,
One point In the tariff discussions
Of the year may be accepted as set
tied in advance II Is that Democrats
of the west and south. while advocat
ing wise and conservative tariff re-
vision, will not consent to the remov.
al OF the tariff from their raw ma
terials OF manufacture so long as the
tariff taxes them heavily on the goods
and wares made from those materi