Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-02-07
A QUEER PHILOSOPHY
Shaw Fears Surplus Products
VIII Swamp Prosperity.
CONDITION DUE 70 STAND PATTEls
Foreign Nations Retaliate Against
Our Trust Protecting System by
Raising Their Tariff Walls-Reduc-
ton of the Tariff 50 to Abolish
Trust Monopoly the Only solution.

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treasury be i certain q 81 audience
70 SONG extent, 50 his utte.aaces have
- * -o,icei and. when likely 10 do
harm. criticised Il Z speech the other
Gzy :. -he commercial congress g.
Kansas City lie expressed his anxiety
.v.- while We delay i getting access
= expanding foreign markets or sur
Plus O.: p?oiucts WI. -. back upon
u Ike t'ela,-. tide. . The inuaia,!oa
aai swaup.as Of our prosperity which
: now or hast"
I-vAl o. plenty and 2 reduction Of
trust t.gh prices seen = weigh upon
the heart o: Shaw. To- rs only idea Is
u 81. I'D q our products by exporting
them He cannot So rhac reduced
prices vi, lead - greater home cor.
sumption. Shaw Il his economic co-!-
ta-io1s has IL place to- imports. He
wants The paupe- 0: Europe 10 buy.
bu- thinks i is al :.,pe--!nence .o-
HIN u So, = Us. BIZ. fortunately the
SLaw scho.ol % 60, mics "a >corne-i
by -te worlds traders. and reciprocity
O. trade : & cece>si--. except =: such
raw products a. ara needed th2. are
my u2,l-2. products 0: The .:Lp3-r!l :
nation Or tia. ara NOT raised II su.i-
Glen. quantity 20 supply the home ne-
c-->...-s Those necessities. Ike coy
tol. com and wheat, must he bough.
by 'he nation needing than. and pro
tec-ve tariffs play bl. little part in
Their general world distribution
The shaw ccy Is Export. export.
bu- h would prevent imports He
pays 10 attention 70 the fact that Eng
land. the greatest trading nation. is
always iUpor,tn: more than she IS ex
porting and has become the richest
country Il the world by the profits on
this trade No tariff wal! is raised By
her TO prevent free !agress or egress Of
goods or persons except q low tariff
on few articles FOR revenue purposes.
The Shaw school who have not yet
passed through the Kindergarten stage
OF political economy. would raise our
tariff wall still higher by the iupos!-
ton OF maximum rates Of tariff duties
10 force other nations 70 lower their
barriers against our imports.
Shaw would consider tariff for rev.
elue, which would vastly increase our
foreign trade. device Of the evil one
For our people 10 - able TO buy cheap
wooden goods instead OF InerceriZed cot
ton and shoddy from the tari # protect
ed wooden trust would he ru!nous to
producers and CONSUMERS alike. accord
Ing 10 the perverted theories Of shaw
To allow iron and steel and tools and
! agricultural implements and building
material TO BE imported under reduced
duties would strike down the profits Of
those gigantic corporations. the steel
trust. the harvester trust and the lu,n.
Der trust, SO that their Eacrates would
! be unable, without measure OF sci.
sacrifice 70 respond 70 the call Of the
Republican campaign fund collector
for Doodle 70 save the country AID
The party The specter OF gaunt
hunger Of the corporations, II the spells
OF tha trusts are reduced by tariff re-
vis.9-. haU2ts the waking and sleeping
moments OF trust guard.aIs such as
Shaw when they think Of what the
WICKED DEN ocrats would DO 70 the
great protected Interests OF the coun-
- IN. '.I in -
trus- would dissolve. and its luscious
contributions would 10 longer sweeten
the path % the politicians, but it would
be sweeter 70 the people in the form
q cheaper sugar The Standard OIL
trust, which Shaw enormously has de-
clared is not protected by the tariff.
would find It's enormous dividends Of
~ per cent 60 up in smoke incense 70
those who have compelled its profits
To be reasonable Instead OF 10 be plum
dered By H.
And 50 the list Of trusts might be
gone over and the shaw heart riyen By
+ the tales Of woe Of trust rnagnates and
Republican campaign leaders alike, Of
the evil days that will succeed the tat
and prosperous years for the protected
! trusts. The stand patters may stand
aghast at our surplus OF products, but
/ the Consumers will regard such plenty
/ with equanimity as the club that will
beat down monopoly.
| 50 II comes 70 th!s-the Republican
! party has created conditions that It
! fears 70 face, for the tariff taxed PEG
| PIE are unable % pay high trust prices
/ for more goods than they are now con-
suming and foreign nations have raised
| q rival tariff wall against our surplus
products. To reform the tariff would
result In reducing trust profits, and not
10 revise the tariff will prevent our
getting access to expanding foreign
markets"
| What q dilemma for the stand pat.
ters It never seems TO occur TO these
worshpers Of protectionism that 10
lower the tariff Will reduce prices and
thus allow millions Of our people TO
buy more. They prate Of our home
market" but the result Of the trust
| fostering tariff Is 10 limit consumption
! b. high prices and the surplus created
! by the promise Of enormous profits Is
| becoming menace TO the system they