New Ulm review., 1907-05-22


only way we can secure any elaborate
reciprocity now is through tariff re-
vision of some sort. This probably
may take the form of a maximum and
minimum system. If it does, we should,
in my opinion, adopt the idea which
Germany is now enforcing against us.
That is to say, minimum duty rates
should be reasonable protective tar
if, affording full protection to Ameri-
can workmen and American manu-
facturers without imposing any hard
ships on the consumer. The maximum
rate of duty then would become purely
punitive. That is to say, it would be
applied to punish nations which do
not give US the benefit of their lowest
rate of duty. In this way we should
have satisfactory reciprocity by con-
gressional action. Congress would
fix all tariff rates, both high and low,
as is it's duty under the constitution.
There would be no continuing disturb
ance of prices. The application of
maximum or minimum rates would be
an executive act. The president would
have to decide when any foreign
nation did net give us the benefit of
it's lowest rates of duty. He would
not be called upon to fix rates or to
employ experts to take testimony on
the cost of production, but would act
in a ministerial capacity, and this
double tariff would operate on all
nations alike.
Sam Langum, secretary of the state
senate Gov. johnson vetoed the In
dian pension bill, which passed the
legislature, more because of senti-
mental reasons than anything else,
and I am inclined to think that he
acted wisely. The bill provided for a
pension for all who had been taken
prisoners during the Indian outbreak
in 1862 or who had rendered efficient
aid. tbs estimated that it would have
cost the state Sl00, 900 per year, and no
doubt many would have come under
it's provisions who had in no way
earned this stipend, in fact the less
worthy probably the more pressing
the claim. That is what vetees are
for, the protection of people against
themselves as it we're. 1t is strange,
but it is true, that the calm Judgment
of one man, after due and careful de-
liberation, is sometimes better than
that of many men who are sometimes
carried away by their own and each
others impulses. It seems rather hard
for one man to set himself up against
the many, but the trainers of our con-
stitution, national and state, were no
doubt wise in making this provision.
New York Evening Post-It may be
treason to say it, but the fact seems
to be that in the English market,
which is open to the competition of the
world, prices cannot advance so
rapidly as in our own favored land OF
tariffs and trusts. Our present method
Of manufacturing prosperity is to
have the federal government, through
the Dingley tariff, bind the consumer
hand and foot, and then invite the
trusts to rifle the victims pockets, not
overlooking the scarf pin and other
valuables. Meanwhile our president
extols the square deal and proves to
you that there is no possible connec-
tion between the tariff and the trusts.
The result is prosperity the
trusts and the campaign committee
but the process is undeniably expen-
sive. How long the gold output is
likely to go on increasing is as diff
cult to answer as the further query
how long are the trusts to enjoy their
present license to pick our pockets.
Gov. Odell of New York-To be
merely a party man without regard to
| the principles espoused by that party
is not to be patriotic. I am believer
in independence, when the object
sought is betterment of government,
and while I strongly advise every
young man to become affiliated with
some party, do not advise him to be
so narrow in his conception of the
franchise duties Of citizenship as blind
ly 10 follow leaders, whose motives
may be selfish and whose aims are not
for the best interests of the country.
Rev. William Quayle, an Episcopa.
clergyman of Chicago regard Chris
tian Science as a department of aber
rant psychology, a disease peculiar
to the brain. The thing I am mos
frequently asked to account for is why