The Washington times., 1909-08-07
NEW LAM TO MAKE
ISLANDERS PROSPER
Representative Hill Says
President and Payne De-
serve Nations Praise.

That the Payne tarin bill. now being
put into effect throughout the country
! as the successor to the Dingley law, Il
+ far from being the kind of law soBA
Of its trainers would ike 10 see on the
/ statute books is indicated by Represen-
/ tative <. J. Hill OF Connecticut, a mem
( Der of the Ways and Means Committee
4 in statement made by him today.
: Mr.. Hill indicates that the enactment
| Of the Payne bill into law is but the
beginning Of a determined movement TO
bring about tariff legislation which shah
/ adhere strictly TO the principle that the
policy OF protection shall be the exact
difference in the cost at home ana
abroad. He admits that in very few in
stances does the Payne law measure uD
to that principle.
Establishes Principle.
The general tariff law known as the
| Payne bill marks clearly and distinctly
/ the establishment OF a principle that
/ the measure Of protection in the future
I shall be the difference in the cost of
/ production at home ami abroad" said
I Mr. Hill today While the principle is
not rigidIy applied d the biz, the ten
/ dency is in that direction The proba-
bilities are that but very few OF the
/ paragraphs have been brought, either
/ up or down, TO that precise point The
/ trouble has been in securing precise in
/ formation TO bring about that result
/ II has been done, however, in a few
/ cases. and the principle has been estab-
| lished, and while in no case have the
/ rates been reduced oel0w the point of
/ protection, ali the circumstances Of the
4 industry being considered, IN a very
/ large number Of iHs5ances marked pro-
/ gress has been made. and for this the
country has TO thank the leadership Of
/ the President and the arduous. constant.
/ and unremitting toll for more than
/ year Of Serene z. Payne. Ia the face Of
/ obstacles and opposition which would
/ have deferred almost any other man in
/ Congress.
But there is another significant fea-
ture Of the work Of this session which
I it viii ts4te7 some time for the country
10 understand and fully appreciate its
benefits. and that is the fact that in
single day and within three minutes
+ time the signature of the President was
attached to two tariff acts under the
operation of which 10000 900 people viii
F be brought into practically free and unre-
+ strlcted trade with each other and
that from Porto Rico "a -cSe Philfppines
/ more than half way around the world
American trade and commerce can 90
4 unrestricted and unVeXed within AMI
protected by the provisions of the gem
eral taTin law Of the United States.
Extension Of Trade.
1T is doubtful whether in all the wars
which England has fought in the last
century there has been one in which
| in its basic motive was not for the ex-
tension OF English trade Her colonies
have al been acquired for that pur-
pose, and yet she finds herself today
hampered in her relations with most 81
them by tariffs against the mother coun-
try Ever since her peace jubilee the ef-
fort of Chamberlain and others OF her
statesmen has been to organize a
1 Greater Britain, with unrestricfe5
/ trade relations between the mother
country and the colonies. and thus FAR
] IL has been failure.
I in single day the United States has
accomplished BY peaceful maaDs what
! Britain has been endeavoring to do for
many years and failed. for all OF the
! United States possessions and terrific
RES. excent the little islands Of Guam
ana Iutula- are in practical free trade
relations with each other
Develop Possibilities Rapidly
with the prosperity which this reIa-
/ ton is certain to bring to the Philip
pine Islands the consumption Of Amsri-
can produces by the seven and = half
million people there is sure to grow with
| leaps and bounds, and with an average
preferential OF about IS Ter cent in ia
vor Of the United States rs against the
rest Of the world We ought TO enter at
once upon the control Of that trade and
develop possibilities there as rapidly as
we have already done in Porto Rico.
President Taft may we'll be pleased
! at the accomplishment of what he SAYS
he has been working ten years To Sc
cure, and the American people within
the next ten years viii realize more
| than they can possibly do now how
much he has done for our industries Ia
! securing 1t. ="