The Washington herald., 1909-05-05
NO PROMISE OF REVISION!
Eaitor The washington Hsr.ld.

- - oAA1A4hB 10 ne lHdt TIE DetIlO-
Gratis can have the boidness TO assert
that the Republicans ever promised 10 re-
wise the tariff downward so as TO allow
any goods to ccme into the country which
We can make here 81 any profit. The
very contrary Is the fact. They asserted
a determination TO lift the tariff 50 high
that 20 foreign producer could bring any
goods into this country. unless not At 4
profit
Is this nor as plain as the nose on a
mans face? Hitherto the tariff has been
nigh enough to equa1ize conditions Of pro-
duction and delivery at, say. New York.
then the foreigner and the American
could compste for the trade. and the one
accepting the lowest profit would sell
the goods and build up the trade. This
was the system until lately.
Est under the new plan the tariff goes
on 10 protect tbs profit. and so the for
eigner cannot bring goods any more
How can ne? VIII he bring to New York
a cargo costing $1,000 less than what II
can be produced for in America, and pay
the $4,000 TO our custom house. and then
wait Until the customs officers ascertain
what IS a reasonable profit for him cor
for the American producer) and then pay
that further sum into the customs?
Foreigners know little about our WAYS.
anyway. but no one viii be fool enough
10 come here with a cargo OF goods and
sell them and pay large duty TO equal
lie conditions. and besides these pay ali
the profit there is in the goods into the
United States Treasury. They will know
what We mean when We revise the tariff
this time. and our platform was made
to tel them what we meant, and also 20
tell the truth to the Democratic orators
who s;ill keep wrongly shouting that the
Republicans promised 10 revise the tariff
downward Somebody once asked SEN
etOr Evarts II he believed that the gen
ersl welfare clause authorized Con-
gress 70 appropriate money 20 pay TO the
states 70 aid them in sending their chill
dren 10 school He replied that he did.
DO YOU not suppose that the men who
put that in the Constitution put It in to
be used?"
So with our platform Why Go you
suppose we gave the world notice that we
should protect not only the cost Of the
goods. but also a reasonable profit 20
the American producer. Il we did not
mean to keep out the foreigners goods?
What made you suppose ne would bring
them here Il he had 20 deliver the goods
a.
them, but was 10 pay the profit 70 the
custom-house? He Is not such a fool as
70 do that: and our complaining Demo
Gratis know he Isn't; he VIII stay al home
with his goods where he belongs. ard our
Americans will make Just as good articles
and get the proat. not the foreigner nor
the custom-house.
know this most excellent method OF
protecting American labor and American
Industries Is new. but Il Is open and pub
&c Il was put forth al the last Repub-
Hcan convention, and is the rule for Te-
visings which IS not a rule for revising
downward. but rule for revising FOR
rroft 7 have looked I'D the Republican
platforms. II is true that in IS94 We said.
The measure Of protection should al
ways al least equal the difference in the
cost OF production at home and abroad. -
But IN 1905, for the first time. we added.
Together with a reasonable profiJ 70
American industries" and President Taft
used the words, And embrace a rea-
sonable profit &c the American producer. =
So everybody has had due notice
II a duty now exceeds a reasonable
profit il need not be made any larger. and
may be reduced. for no foreigner VIII
send his goods here II he has 10 pay his
profit 20 our government. while our pro-
ducer makes and keeps his own profit. Il
Is a foolish notion that he viii come any
more.
I wish YOU would publish the extracts
from our conventions which I send you
and call a halt 20 the reproaches which
Democrats are all the time unjustIy heap
ing upon protection Republicans. whc
they mistakenly say promised 10 revise
the tariff downward They promised tC
revise it upward Il necessary to Aneri-
can labor and reasonable American
I.rOfits-and not for foreigners. To mt
surely belongs a reasonable profit
Az AMERICAN PRODUCER