The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-23
"lnfant Industries No Longer Need Protection Says Head of United States Steel
 Corporation,
WOULD TAX LUXURIES ALONE
Believes Radical Revision Could Be Made Safely Now, But Would Respect Timidity
 of Manufacturers.

New York, Nov. 2o-A notable article from Andrew Carnegie, dealing with the tariff, will appear in the forthcom- ing December number of the Century Magazine, in which the iron master takes the position that Infant indus tries" no longer need protection; that the steel and other industries have now grown beyond the need of tariff protec- ton, that duties on luXuries used by th rich should be maintained. but that those on manufactured articles should be reduced greatly, or abolish entirely when no longer needed
 Mir. Carnegie's article is entitled My Expericnc With and Views Upon the Tariff" He reviews the tariff move' ments down to the present Dngley law and says that conditions have changed SD greatly in the interval that the tariff should now be viewed from Q Il viewpoint He assumes that de' cided majority of American voters arc agreed
 Automatic Economic Principles
 First. That if Is advisable for new countries to encourage capital by pro tective duties, when seen to he neces- sary to develop new industries
 Second, That after full and ex- haustive trials, if success be not finally attained, such protection should cease, except as noted hereunder.
 Third That should the experiment succeed. protection becomes unneces- sary. and should steadily but gradually he abolished, provided that the hom" supply of any article absolutely neces- sary for the national safety shall noj hereby he endangered.
 Infant Industries GrownTp.
 Further on Mr Carnegie says
 We have already become by far the greatest of all manufacturing nations our infant industries of the past have reached maturity, and. speaking gen orally. are now quite able to protect themselves
 'Whle the tariff as q whole even to- day has ceased to be primarily hene- 
 become of vast importance from tho standpoint of revenue, and if Is to this feature hespcak the special attention of readers of all parties, for dutie. upon imports, not for protection, bu for needed revenue. should not become party question. Reasonable men o all parties may be expected to approve this plan of obtaining revenue"
 Exempt the Poor; Tax the Rich.
 After giving tables showing that tn bulk of tariff duties are collected or luxurios used by the rich, Mir Carneg says
 "Thus does the American tariff, Il happy contrast to others, almost ex empt the DOT and heavily tax the rich just as it should. for it s they wh have the ability to pay as required b. the highest economic authority"
 MT Carnegie says of future tarIi legislation.
 ''The next congress dealing with tn tariff will probably he inclined al frs to reduce duties all around and pcrhap to abolish some, but its first car should be 10 maintain present duties and even in some cases it Increase them. upon all articles used almost ex clusivelr by the rich. and this for no protection but for revenue, not draw from the workers but from tho riol That is the 1rRt and prime duty e congress We should not forget tha government expenditures have in creased enormously in recent years an that additional revenue is required
 Roth Reduce md Abolish,
 oIts second duty is to reduce dutie greatly upon manufactured article and ,o abolish entirely those no longe needed
 "rhe writer has co-operated in mak ing several reductions as steel manu faetdrers became able 10 bear roduc tions. To-day they need no protection unless perhaps in some new specialize unknown to the writer, because stet Is now produced cheaper here tha anywhere else, notwithstanding tn higher wages paid per man. .. Th day has passed when any foreig country can seriously affect our ste, manufactures, tariff or no tariff Th republic has become the home of stee and this is the age of steel The write speaks only of the ordinary article and forms of steel as being able stand without protection, He hopt there arc to-day pioneers in severi new lines requiring protection, whic will be generously given temporaril The committee should welcome sue special eases'
 Mr Carnegie says that several ott CT features of the tariff should be care fully looked into more particular Illuminating oils, thread and cutlery.
 Further on he saya'
 The infant we have hursed ar proachcs the day when it shoul be weaned from tariff milk and re upon the stronger food of free con petition. It needs. little. if any nor nourishing, but the change should nc be made abruptly
 Make Haste slowly"
 There is no occasion for haste , for any revolution in coming tari