The Oskaloosa herald., 1908-02-06
.DEYER|DGE WOULD
FOLLOW GERMANY
(Contiuued from LIST papel
The German Method.

The German Method.
How did Germany make her tariff
ciassifications so much clearer, sim
pier and more accurate than oursy
BY the common-sense plan of having
an expert commission arrange these
classifications. But that was only n
part of the work of the German com
mission. Years ago Germany saw that
only body Of experts could get the
facts and arrange the schedules for
her tariff she saw that the only
work which the Reichstag could do
was the fixing of duties to the items
which the expert commission CLASH
fed and upon the facts which the ex-
pert commission found out and laid
before the Reichstag. So Germany
selected for this work thirty of the
best-fitted men to be found in the En-
pire. This commission consulted
more than 1000 trade and Industrial
experts. 1t investigated every phase
of every industry in the Empire which
might bear upon the train. it careful
ly studied the tariffs of other coun-
tries. 1t gave due weight to Ger
many's export trade. In snort, every
thing that goes into the making of a.
tariff was worked out to the smallest
detail by the German expert commits
sion. 1t spent almost six years at
this work. The facts thus gathered
and the scheduled classiflcations thus
made were laid before the Reichstag,
and the Reichstag then finally fixed
the duties, after its committee, cores
ponding to the Ways and Means Com
mittee of our House of Representa-
tives, had spent ten months in con-
tinuous work examining the recon-
mendations of the commission.
Germany Beating US.
The German Empire, with an areal
nineteen times smaller than the Unit
ed States, and parts of its lands poor
and unproductive, and with a popula-
ton less than two-thirds as great as
ours, nevertheless exports more THANH
one and a half billion dollars worth
of German products, more than two
thirds of which are manufactured ar
ticles, whereas We export $1,717,953,-I
900 worth of products, most of which
are raw material. Only s460,000,000,I
or q per cent, are northumberland |
articles, and Of these, nearly all are
steel, copper and petroleum, requir-
ing so little skilled labor that they
are nearly raw material.
II is her foreign markets that gave
Germany her industrial prosperity.
Indeed, it is her foreign markets
rishieh- enable germany to live. TheI
time is here when foreign markets
for our manufactures are becoming
almost as important to American in
dustry as they are to German indus
try. This one fact alone commands
us to take the same up-to-date scien-
tific steps with our tariff that Ger
many has taken with her tariff. But
far greater facts compel it still more.
For example, the cost to our ninety
millions of people of what they must
buy compels us to make our tariIf,
which SO vitality affects this cost OF
living. with full and true KNOWLEDGE
Of all the facts.
Maximum and Minimum Tariff.
We must have more. foreign trade.
We must open foreign markets to our
live cattle, which are now kept out OF
those markets. Our manufacturersl
ask the same advantages in foreigni
trade that the German government
gets for German manufactures. Amer
lean producers demand that the doors
of other nations which are open to
their rivals shall no longer be closed
to them. We cannot open these doors
by a purely revenue tariff, because
such tarin merely gives other ma
lions trade advantages with us with
out getting from those oIner nations
any trade advantages in return.
We must have a system that gives
have by which we can get for our
producers the same favors that our
rivals get for their producers. Wei
must have a maximum and minimum
tariff, the first to apply to all nations
that will not give our producers spe-
cial favors in their markets, and the
last to apply to those nations that will
give our producers favors in their
markets. BY this plan German pro-
ducers are selling more Germanl
goods abroad than any other nation.
II we consider area, wealth. history
and all other elements of the problem.
German producers are selling more
German goods abroad than any other
five nations in the world put together.
Grand jury In Session.