Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1906-03-02
PAYING TIE COST OF TARIFF WAR.

PAYING COST OF TAI;Iff WAR.
The February days are slipping fast
away and not II republican in congress
has made Il sincere move to avert the
tariff wal which tire at ems to begin with
Germany ut the first OF March.
II is not the eastern manufacturers
nor the Lake Superior copper miners,
nor the Southern cotton growers who
makes good her Warning Of Il ~retalia.
tory tariff on our products. The wheat
growers and the stock raiscrs OF the
middle west and the northwest will be
the victims, They have seen the
trouble impending for more than a year
anG now IT ia ut their doors.
Long before Germany threatened
retaliation against the trade-killing
schedules of the Dingley act there was
friction I'D the admission of American
meats to Germany mark cts. Unusual
rigor i'll enforcement OF inspection laws,
quihblIug complaints OF the quality OF
the meat, and so forth, were beginning
to curtail shipments OF orr meats TO
Germany.
To turr away the trouble and save
our market, the west, at the Reciprocity
Convention in august, served notice
in advance upon the fifty ninth con-
grcss that it wanted the Diugley tariff
,,nsIiIinl - fln ,Enr,.k alba ~ 1Ln
western consumer OF manufactured
goods.
Not a few influential republican
members Of congress attended the con-
ventior and expressed sympathy with
and approval OF the demands which it
voiced. And that was The last III it,
so tas rs they are concerned. Senator
Cullom plainly declared himself in
favor Of "A reciprocity treaty by winch
the markets OF Germany and other
countries Of Continental Europe might
he more freely opened to orr meats and
breadstuiTs.
AZ two thirds u the senate could not
be brought to vote for the ratification OF
such a'treaty, Senator Cullom explained
to the convention that a die terminating
tariff act with the D.ngley rates for the
maximum and rates - per ecu less
for the minimum was the only remedy
whose approval by congress seemed
possible.
And YET Senator Gallons political.
ally. the speaker Of the house, clapped
tho lid on the tariff question us soon as
congress convened and has been
standing on it with both feet wei since.
II Senator Cullom, or any other member
Of the political combination with which
he works in Illinois, las uttered Il
word of prOte"t against this application
Of the gag rule to n question which
vitality concerns their own state OF the
Allegheny Mountains.
Tho only tariff measure that has not
been choked off by gag rule is the
presidents little Philippines bill, which
would admit raw products Of the
;slnnds III con- petition with infant III.
huoli'to " thC hCS1t "h we bIl( TtbI
opposition To that bad measure has
been offered by democrats Of the two
houses. 1t may yet be beaten by the
solid democratic vote in the senatc
re- enforced by the vote Of Il few re-
publican senators.
In tlie mean while, the time is draw,
ing nearer every day when Germany,
new tariff is to 20 INTO effect, and the
best the republicans nave to offer is 4
threat Of rctaliat,ng against her Will
a maximum % per rent heavier thar
the already t~op.heavy Dinglcy rates
What docs it matter to the house!
behind the scenes OF republican actor
il z costly tariff war cnt ues? Western
agricultural interests viii pay the cost
and, in the estimation OF the 70 gentle,
men, those interests never wore any
thing but u coy to be fed in the west
and MIXED in the east.-Sr. Louis RI,
public.