The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-04-10
ROW GET FOREIGN MARKET 81
Situation Shows Failure OF Republican
Policy OF Protection

The New York Journal OF Commerce,
The only financial and business paper
that Is independent OF Wall street
and trust influences, thinks that Amer
lean mills should seek foreign mar
kets. II quotes the opinion Of a man
connected In an executive and prac-
teal way with one OF the largest in
dustries in this country. who said that
only by entering into the competitive
business abroad could IL be hoped to
prevent one OF the most trying. cruel
and disastrous periods that labor has
experienced. The public have not
yet begun to appreciate the severity
OF the labor outlook" he continued.
They hear OF the hundreds of thou
sands OF workmen OF all kinds being
out OF work in the great cities, but
they do not begin to realize the stu
alton and the prospects at the wooden
manufacturing centers. for instance,
throughout New England. What is
needed are foreign markets to act as
regulator or insurance for the home
market"
But how is the American manufac-
turer to overcome the high tariff rates
that foreign countries impose on Amer
lean products in retaliation for our
high tariff duties imposed on their
products? Virtually only the English
markets are open to our wares, and
even the British colonies. such as
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tariff protection to protect their own
manufacturers. Every country but
England has a tariff wall around II and
the United States has the highest tar
IN wall of all, with the possible exceTe
ton OF Russia
To seek foreign markets for our
surplus products under such conditions
Is thankless task, for our manufac-
turers would have TO offer their goods
for a price that with the tariff rates
Of other countries added would be less
than the price the manufacturers of
foreign countries sell for. We can
not compete with England, for her
manufacturers have free raw materials
and lower cost OF living for her work
men, and thus lower wages and cheap
er cost of production than the manu-
facturer of the United States has.
The sad state of affairs that the
Republican policy of protection has
produced, both for the manufacturer
and the workmen. cannot be much bet
tered by the trusts and tarih-protected
Industries selling cheaper abroad than
here, because after all but little in
ternational trade can be accomplished
between those who want to sell and
refuse TO buy. If we want to sell to
foreigners. we must buy Of them as
general proposition. No country
can afford long TO pay gold for foreign
products. except for raw materials
which il resells as finished products.
The protected interests here must
'H6}dT -ile conditions they have created
and nothing but reforming our owr
tariff with free raw materials and
other reductions that will allow oul
workingmen TO live cheaper will force
open foreign markets for our surplus
products.
AS long as the business boom was
on everything was lovely for awhile
but now the breakdown has come VIZ
are helpless under the inelastic work
ings of the Republican policy OF tariff
protection.
The Republicans now propose a tar
in commission to investigate the tar
III abomination, but as that farsee'n
statesman, former Governor Dougla
OF Massachusetts. has lately said:
while this commission will be SLOW
~ prosecuting its investigation tn
tariff trusts will continue TO plunde
the helpless consumers and will rails
campaign fund that will almost II
sure the reelection OF stand-patteT
and defeat the revisionists. Instea
of this program of delay. would hay
president who would call an exit
session of congress TO revise the Ia
III Immediately and radically.
"The proper time to get rid of som
thing bad is right now. Nor do / b
lIeve in compromising with an eV
and In agreeing TO abolish 1t piec
meal-say ten per cent. a year-wh'
II is possible to get rid of ii at ono
If have an liberated tooth tn
should be extracted, / do not wa
Il pulled by installments, so that Il
process will last several hours
several days; | want the agony OF q
separation to be as short as possibl
also want to get relief from the b'
tooth as soon as possible"