The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-11-27
CARNEGIE SAYS NO TARIFF ON Stiff

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;es of import taxation Not since Mr. Faya iel-
apnae declared that the tariff is the mother Of trusts ~
n such frank admission OF the fact that the tariff n No
deemed necessary by those who have proited most h. '
What purpose Mr. Carnegie has in MAKING HE tt
his time not known, need his motives be questioned
,rton the schedules likely to profit him o. L. nv
avs the Salt Lake Herald However great weight r,ue+
vhat he says because individual American has bee, -
red by tariffs and the steel industry in which heis I'll;
Il factor is object of attack as one of the most
onopoles established with the aid Of tariff legislation
what Of the steel trust also nuberless other ~
4 which parallel its economic history
The significant paragraph of Mr. Carneees contrbt;
reads
"The writer has co-operaed in making reductions
steel manufacturers became able bear reductions TODAY M
the writer because steel produced cheaper here than m
where notwithstanding the higher wages paid Der man Not
ton of steel produced in the world small an OUTLAY for labor
country Our COKE coal and are much ceaner
because easily obtained and transported and our otnt ne
man much greater owing chiefly the large standardized orders
oanable only upon continent the specialized roll mills e
machinery kept weeks upon uniform shapes without change of rolls
and several other advantages.
he day has passed when any foreign country can seriously
affect our steel manufacturers tariff or no tariff The republic has
become of STEEL and this is the age of steel 1t NAV prob
ably found that there exists the small manufacturer of some
speciality steel which still needs protection The
hopes if such there be- the committee will give patient aten
such cases.
time borne by the low prices which products
sold abroad in competition with foreign manufacturers it
been established by every of the steel relating
manufacture yet the Republicans that
ruon of the tariff steel would the ruin industry
and the paralysis of the establishments.
Time when the advocates of tariff argued
the foreigner paid the tax good many people believed
assertion Then it cry for the salvation of the American la
bn from foreign labor competition pauper labor was
called That farce because the protected industries have been
the chief importers Of pauper labor bringing into direct
and perniciou competition with American citizens than any
free trade policy could effect
Bee of these the protected interests abandon all
other pleas and boldly demand tariff that shall protect them enough
guard their monopoly of the market and addition give them
reasonable profit"
That reasonable profit of the Republican campaign
promises Before the ways and committee the interests that
argue the tariff their particular products seem to
think that reasonable profit includes all the people will stand or
more congress be induced to grant it The hearing has de
generated into great grab game which the protection beneh
hae arranging grab everything and leave the consumer and
producer nothing
Mr. Carneges article had no other it would be valuable
because lucid exposition of existing fact by an authority whose
knowledge be queonedStee and iron have always Dee @
sacred white elephants of the protective cult From rig lion
Nelly down Payne Dalze the apostles OF roDDer a S
example of the benefit and of protective duty MI Caese
ays such duty longer necessary that the infant uus5
@ grown to maturity and is able get along without the
ng aid Of the tariff and by inference is fair to assume a '
ame thing true of the hundred and one industries "rcl ns q
AIMED trust proportions and robbng the whole nauoh Dy W
grace OF Republican tariff
In his discussion laird of Sbo says the present al %
YES the rich and bears lightly on poor We beg to diner WIN
an without seeing the text of his argument 1t may DC i ~
F articles consumed used by the rich bear high duues, @
nure to say that the very large proportion OF money
The results directly and indirectly the proveshment o
e producing classes Little duty collected on steel Prouu
F eSsence of high duy such products has ehaoed ny
Ht to charge exobitan prices for steel rails, barOed VIZ
ud Steel and every other article of steel manufacture
es result in excessive of railroad construction II is
g costs and in raising the price Of living every Individual con-
r IN the nation 1t results indirect tax Iol "e P
= steel trust without any commensurate return TO te