New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-29
OEE THELR REARLNnN-

The critics of the Taft administration
are doing their best 10 be cheerful over
the announcements that the Dominion Of
Canada VIII make sufficient tariff con
cessions 10 entitle its commerce with the
United States 10 the benefits Of the mini
mum tariff schedule They publicly con
graduate The country on the avoidance of
iarin reprisals. Yet secretly, no doubt.
many of them bitterly regret the failure
Of the maNimum-minimum plan 10 pro-
dUce The direful results which they 50
volubly predicted would follow It's enact
ment. 1t Is not little disconcertinC
after one has described the maximum
minimum schedule as a dishonest device
intended 10 make the maximum rate of
duty the normal rate on imports and has
prophesied that its use must inevita.lv
result ia tariff hostilities To find that
every nation in the world has freely ac-
cep,ed our offer of minimum rates and
given us in return treatment as good *
that enjoyed 10y any of our commercial
rivals
II Is asking a good deal Of human
nature 10 bee enthusiastic under such cir
cumstauoes. The comments of our neigh
Dor The New York Times" Oh the Ca
madam settlement betray a courageous Of
Tort 10 make the most Of an obstreper
ous ana contrary outcome Said The
Times yesterday:
The significance Of that fact Tof set
ucineutl lies ina the working of he 30
trclNe feature of the Aldrich tariff
Soh'He' mo maximum tariff The
dNoWed intention 81 the trainers az tho
tariff was that this feature should on
able the lnifCd States 10 force oth.-
countries 10 give 70 Us, under threat. IN,
concessions which were granted ia other
cases only n return cor equivalent ad-
yali'ages.
The "aTowed intention OF The trainers
al the tariff seems 10 have undergone a
material change since "The Times" first
began 10 study their mental operations
II said on April - Of last year when the
minimum maximum plan was under dis
cGssion in Congress.
Every reduction was found % be la
Die 10 bo wiped Out, or actually 40 be r.
placed 10y an advance. through the oper-
au"h al thr ingenious and Penrosc
MAXIMUM ANA minimum rates claus. q"
What thc committee 1.-THE NAYS and
Means Committee of The Housed did was
thls- IL pretended 10 draw "a deed con-
Neylng substantial relief for acknowl-
edged wrongs, then IA "A subordinate and
indirect part OF the instrument il in
serted "A provision meant in nearly all
cases To Withdraw the relief and in some
10 aggraNate tho wrong
The Times" MAS sure a wear ago thar
the real object OF the minimum maxi.
mum device was 10 subject all foreign
imports 10 the maximum duties. Now in
Il only sure that II was 10 be used AS =
club 10 obtain concessions 10 which the
l nlied STATES "as not in equity entitled.
~ argued VeAc;neutiy that The attenDt
10 use such club must fail Now II is
busy explaining WHY the predicted fail
ure did not materialize ana why Euro
ropeau countries yielded 10 pressure on
our part-that pressure consisting sim
ply Of an offer 10 exchange our Lowest
tariff rates for the lowest tariff rates of
other nations. Said The Times" again
yestc-day:
with the European governments this
plan worked fairly successfully. because
they sell 10 us more than thcv buv and
because what they buy OF us is chiefly
either food or raw mu.erials of u-'u,,-
facturr With Canada tho exact r.
N'rse l. iru". she buys more than she
sells, and " Is We who take food and
materials from her. n Was found tber.-
tore. that secretion in her ease Would be
costly.
No statement could be- w'ucr Of the
fact than that the countries uf Eur,ne
sell to NJ more than they buy Tor the
lnsi Ten years ~" have been selling Eu-
rope IN commodities twice a. ,nugh -