The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-23
Infant Industries Have Grown to Maturity and Need
 No Protection
AMAZING STATEMENT IS
 MADE BY STEEL MAKER
In Spite of Radical Utterances Car neuie Says He Is Still Protection ist, But Believes In Abolish
 ing Unnecessary Duties.

New York. November 22.-tspecial) Andrew Carnegie, who built up the steel corporation and amassed a huge fortune under protective tariff, claims that there is no longer any need of protecting our one-time infant indus tries" which have now grown to lusty maturity; that duties on manufactured articles ought to be greatly reduced. protective duties of steel and oil alto gether abolished and duties for rev enue' increased on imported luxuries consumed by the rich.
 These amazing statements from 8 man supposed to be a dyed -in-the- WOOL protectionist. MT. Carnegie makes in his article. My Experience With and Views Upon the Tariff" which will ap- pear in the December issue of the Century Magazine. to be published No vember 25, in which. after sketching the development of American. protee- tion and relating inside stories of tar if legislation in Congress, he arrays the facts and arguments which con vince him that the day of tariff for protection in America is gone. and that,
 
 ly decreased. abolished in many cases. and duties increased on imported lux uries.
 Still Protectionst.
 In spite of this radical standpoint MT. Carnegie maffseains he is still as much of a protectfonist (where protec- ton is really needed) as he ever was and that he has not changed one iota since he has formed clear and def- mite view in regard to protection. He further states that President Mckinley was of "our school of protectionistss strong for protection where needed. but equally strong in abolishing un- necessary duties" Pointing out that the Mckinley bill, generally considered highly protective, really reduced duties on steel rails beams, structural shapes nails, forgngs, etc, Mir. Carnegie goes on to narrate the part he himself played in making out lists reducing iron and steel duties in connection with the Wilson and other tariff reform bills, and shows how two distinguished dem- ocratic leaders Senators German and Governor Flower, helped to defeat the revolutionary features" of the Wilson bill and yet obtained a thorough and judicious reform reducing duties on iron and steel one-third.
 Change In Tariff Benefits.
 MT. Carnegie says: 't We have already become by far the greatest of all manufacturing nations.
 While the tariff as whole even today has ceased to be primarily beneficial as 8 measure of protection, it has become of vast importance from the standpoint of revenue, and it is to this feature l be- speak the special attention of readers of all parties, for duties upon imports, not for protection, but for needed revenue, should not become party question. Rea- sonable men of all parties may be ex- pected to approve this plan of obtaining revenue.
 'The American tariff, in happy contrast to others, almost exempts the poor and heavily taxes the rich. just as it should; for it is they who have the ability to pay as required by the highest economic au- thority.
 Mir. Carnegie says of future tariff leg islation:
 .The next Congress dealing with the tariff will probably be inclined at first to reduce duties all around, and perhaps to abolish some, but it's first care should sbe to maintain present duties and even in some eases to increase them upon all ar tjcles used almost exclusively by the rich, and this not for protection, but for rev. enue, not drawn from the workers, but from the rich. That is the first and prime duty of Congress.
 ..Its second duty is to reduce duties greatly upon manufactured articles, and to abolish entirely those no longer needed
 No Protection Needed.
 .srbe writer has co-operated in making several reductions, as steel manufacturers became able to bear reductions. Today they need no protection, unless, perhaps, in soine new specialties unknown to the writer because steel is now produced cheaper here than anywhere else, notwlth- standing the higher wages paid per man. Not a ton of steel is produced in the world at as small an outlay for labor as in our country. Our coke coal and iron ores are much cheaper, because more easily obtained and transported, and our output per man is so much greater, owing chiefly to the large standardized orders obtainable only upon our continent; the specialized rolling mills; machinery kept weeks upon uniform shapes without change of rolls and other advantages.
 "The day has passed when any foreign country can seriously affect our steel manufacturers, tariff or no tariff
 "The writer hopes there are today pioneers in several new lines requiring protection which will be generously given, temporarily. The committee should well come such special cases.'
 Tariff on Oil.
 He is as positive on oil as on steel, and concludes his apparently enthusi- astic discussion of the protective and retaliatory oil duty with the state- lnent "The oil producers, like the steel producers, of our country, need no pro- tection from the products of other lands"
 "My Experience With. and Views Upon the Tariff'' most earnestly cham pions tariff for revenue, and from MT.