The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-27
REDUCTION Of TARIFF
AND ABOLITION OF STEEL DUTIES
URGED BY CARNEGIE.
WOULD TAX LUxURlES HIGHER
lronmaster Says Infant Industries"
No Longer Are in Need
CT Protection.

New York, Special: An article
from Andrew Carnegie. dealing with
the tariff will appear in the forth
coming December number of the Cen
fury Magazine in which the iron
master takes the position that infant
industries" no longer need protection.
that the steel and other industries
have grown beyond the need of tariff
protection: that duties on luxuries
used by the rich should be maintain
ed. but that those manufactured ar
ticles should be greatly reduced. or
abolished entirely, when no longer
needed
Mr.. Carnegie says:
I'VE have already become by far
the greatest of all manufacturing ma
tions. Our infant industries Of the
past have reached maturity and.
speaking generally, are now quite able
TO protect themselves. The pulling In
FAINT In the nurses arms that Con
gress In 1871. nursed so tenderly will
appear next year before its guardian
as the stalwart champion who has con
quered many fields. thus proving him
self worthy Of the protection bestow-
ed upon him in his youth, and fully
vindicating the protective policy pur-
sued.
while the tariff as a whole. even
to-day, has ceased to be primarily
beneficial as a measure Of protection,
II has become of vast importance
from the standpoint OF revenue. and IL
is TO this feature bespeak the spe-
cial attention of readers OF all parties.
for duties upon imports, not for pro
lection, but for needed revenue. should
not become a party question. Reason
able men of all parties may be expect
ed TO approve this plan Of obtaining
revenue"
After giving tables showing that
the bulk of the tariff duties are col
lected on Injuries used by the rich.
Mr.. Carnegie says:
Thus does the American tariff, in
happy contrast TO others. almost ex-
empt the poor and heavily tax the
rich, Just as IL should. for IL is they
who have the ability 20 pay as re
quired by the highest economic au-
thority"
Further he says:
The infant we have nursed APP
proaches the day when he should be
Weane0 from ldIlH Min anu leu upon
the stronger food OF free competition.
II needs little. If any. more nursing.
but the change should not be made
abruptly. II is better to err upon the
safe side. II we err at all; but he is
the best of protectionists who cor
reefs all faults as they are revealed
and positively declines 10 subject the
Nation to protection in any branch
where 1t is not clearly needed. afford
ing protection always with the resolve
that II shall be temporarily.
in the writer's opinion. the revis-
ion OF the tariff could today safely
and advantageously be made radical
one upon the lines suggested. but IL
Congress, in Difference TO the timid
manufacturer, whom we have always
with u.s., thinks II prudent not to dis
turb his dreams unduly, and only
halves present duties on some articles,
and abolishes them entirely upon 9th
ers-always provided IL guards zeal
ously the present duties upon the lux
uries Of the rich for revenue-the writ
err will be thankful and philosophic as
usual, because one step In the right
direction will have been taken, and
he knows the final step must come
before lony, the sooner the better"