Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-31
TELLS CONGRESS
TO BE CAUTIOUS
WITH REvISIONS
CONGRESSMAN M'KlNLAY IN
FEAR OF ORIENT
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WARNS AGAINST COMPETITION
OF THE AsIATlcs
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Californian. Cites Dangers of Rivalry
from Eight Hundred Millions
of People on Shores of
the Far East"
IBy Associated Press. ]


today cautioned congress to be slow IN
removing the protective tariff from
articles in which there is likely TO DE
competition with the Orient.
THE competition of Europe need no
longer be feared" he said. The rival
ry to be feared is that of the Orient.
He explained that he meant not
Japan alone, but all Oriental countries
1--WE nnu in the countries surround
ing the Pacific ocean, with their $780,
100000 people," he continued, compel
itors in production and manufacture,
as we'll as consumers. of the products
which we are anxious to dispose OF IN
order to maintain in continued oper-
alton our home industries"
He po ted out that American trade
with China, Japan, Korea, Manchurla
and the islands of the coast OF ASIA is
diminishing. This is due, he claimed,
TO the fact that The competition of
japan in almost every line of manu-
facture is displacing American pro-
ducts.
He told the house of two interviews
he had with Marquis Ito, 1.-THE Glad
stone of Japan
II remember we'll the conclusion Of
our second interview said Mr.. NC
hlnlay. THE Marquis was speaking
of the conclusions of the war with
lion men from the armies in Man
churia and the ships on the sea-, he
said, we are going to train them In
Industrial and productive employment
of every kind
To Learn to Work
owe are going to send our bright
young men into the world to learn
trade and craft and every kind OF
American system, and some day we
will he able to make goods and pro-
ducts so cheap that you people OF
America will buy them, and so we pre-
fer to keep our l.oo at home
II find that the words of the Mar
quis have been more than made good.
Japan has the most paternal govern
ment of any country i'll the world ana
in every possible way e government
is assisting in the promotion of every
form of manufacture trade and COM
merce."
Mr.. McKinlay said he believed the
Payne bill, which admits 100000 tons
of Philippine sugar to the United
States free of duty, is a wise one.
1.-The fears of the sugar producers Of
the United States" he said, are
groundless and will remain so as long
as the United states is compelled TO
import in the neighborhood of 1,O00,-
900 tons of sugar annually"
He assured the house that Philip
pine tobacco cannot compete seriously
in American markets with American
tobacco, and that the fears of Louis
lana rice growers of Philippine COM
petition were unfounded.
IF the Payne bill is made the law
of the land' lie added, sit should Sc
cure to the American manufacturer
the trade of the Philippines. And thus
the market of the Philippine islands,
under the provisions of this bill, would
become a part of the great home mar
ket of the United States"
Intend to Begin Soon
Information that Japan will soon
compete with the United states IN man
ufacturing every character of silk
goods for which raw material is now
imported into this country entered
largely into the consideration of the
silk schedules today by the senate COM
mittee on finance.
The result was a decision not TO
adopt the rates of the Payne bill, which
for the most part provide for the re-
enactment of the Dingley rates IN
stead, a table was prepared fixing spe-
cific duties for every article. These are
intended to equal the compound ratt
now existing, which are a combination
of specific and ad valorem duties.
The facts placed before the commit
tee in regard to the ability of Japan to
used in the United States were start
ling as to the cheapness of the manu-
facture.
If the ad valorem rate is to be con-
tinued, the actual values and the con-
sequent low rate of duty that would be
paid would, in the opinion of the com
mittee, prove a greater menace 10 the
Ae,o ~ n
valuation in European and other ASH
attic countries.
, With continued improvements In Jap
an. it was asserted the cost of manu-
facture would be reduced to a figure
that would prove appalling.
No decision has been reached as to
rates of specific duties necessary to
provide adequate protection, but the
committee was unanimous in the opin
ion that recourse lay in the specific
fomr of duty.
Strike Out Another Clause
Recognizing that Brazil is powerless
to suspend her export tax on coffee, be-
cause the tax is indissolubly linked
with her foreign debt, the senate com
mittee on finance also decided to strike
out of the Payne bill the countervall-
ing duty proposed IA
The members of the committee said
IL the Payne provision were ADOPTED II
would have the effect of placing duty
on coffee imported from Brazil equal 10
the export tax assessed by that coun-
try, and the consumer would DE COM
PEELED to pay the difference in cost. >,
The responsibility of such result
could not be shirlSed, 1t was said, and
congress would have to answer to the
people for this assessment against a
necessity. ~.
Secretary Knox sent to the committee
some confidential data supplied to MIN
bv the Brazilian embassy, in which IT
was shown beyond contradiction that
Brazil, whence most of the coffee used
In the United States is imported. could
not repeal it's export tax, as foreign
loans were secured by that tax.
Incidentally the senate committee IS
seeking information about the alleged
American syndicate credited with hav-
ing 4,OO000O bags of coffee in storage,
to be held for a rise in price, which 1t
is believed would follow the passage
of the Payne bill in its present form.
A member of the committee tonlgnt
said that no fortunes would be made
by the members of such syndicate at
the expense of the American breakfast
table. If the committee could prevent IT.
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