The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-14
FINE TRIBUTE TO
 SOUTHERN WOMEN
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 ----~>~-------~~>--~---- ----------------------- than have the Americans, that this is the Aldrich method of revising.
 Having figured out this much the Germans set to studying the maximum and minimum provision. They realize that any country against which these maximum rates are imposed will be hopelessly left out of the American market. But they are convinced, on examination, that these maxima will never be applied as against Germany; that they can't be applied, and that MT. Aldrich and his committee don't expect them to be.
 For the Germans say that to apply these antagonistic maximum rates against Germany would inhict hard ship on America which would bring protest the administration could not neglect Take the single item of coal tar dyes. No matter what the rate on these, the American manufacturers of textiles must have them. They arc not to be had anywhere else. Nobody can make them as the Germans can, and with out tn em the textile industry would be stranded To raise the duty on them 25 per cent would be to do a serious injury to the textile business in this country, and to threaten it's large and growing foreign trade.
 
 CTS of cotton goods, for instance hay ing the benefit of cheap labor and cheap dyes and the world price of cotton, would enjoy advantages which the American manufacturer could not over look. The American home market would not be affected because the tar if takes care of 1t, but foreign trade, not only in these articles but in many more things, would be ruined if the GaF xua nt criu hnr fn get into this market with the wide range of manufacturers materials they send here.
 Throughout the whole chemical schedule this case of the coal tar dyes can be duplicated many times. The American manufacturers business in many cases depends on getting certain things from Germany. It's no use try ing to punish Germany when it hurts the American manufacturer still worse, say these Germans. And so they an- ticipate that even if the Aldrich max ina are meant in good faith, they will be found in experience to have sadly overdone the thing, and to have de- feated their own purpose.
 New England's Grab Game.
 It is really worth attention how New England gets away with the best of everything in Washington. This isn't said anent tariff schedules or anything of that sort. The New England habit of raising the tariff in lieu of other products is so well understood that 1t doesn't need elucidation. Likewise the New England way of electing and re- electing people to Congress until they become, by right of seniority and long evity, the bosses of legislation is per fectly understood in most other parts of the country.
 The catter- -cornered streets in Wash ington are called avenues. They are in theory the most dignihed and splen-. did thoroughfares of the city. The great, fashionable, wealthy avenues Of residence in the city are credited to New England. They are named after New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachus- etts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Maine doesn't get recognition. Penn sylvania draws the famous Appian Way of Washington, as Senator Hoar or somebody called 1t, which is the most famous and in many ways the least attractive of them all. The rest of the states are represented by minor avenues, largely operated in the in- terest of real estate promoters. The names of the states, indeed, have so fallen into disrepute because of this condition that they are not regarded as fetching appellations for real estate propositions.
 When the Georgia people in Wash ington, a year or two ago, observing that they didn't have any avenue, de- manded that pretty suburban high way which had been christened Bright wood be changed to Georgia avenue, there was great protest against it. The people didn't want to be named after state, and they told Congress so. Congress went right ahead and changed the name to Georgia avenue. and now the people are getting even by continuing the use of the old name in utter disregard of the law.
 But New England-New England grabbed off all the best avenues be- fore anybody saw 1t. There isn't self respecting ulti-millionaire in town who doesn't live on an avenue of New England.