El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-15
TEXAS DRY FARMING CONGRESS MEETS
THE PERFECTION Of
THE GERMAN
TARIFF
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would find it kingdom, empire or re-
| public. The United States was held
/ back by the great struggle over slavery
/ and the natural difficulties If PIONEER
| ing. GrAAc isc,-aIn haG discovered that
| the age az NAN is - sAe of fr"E Al d
| brass ana steLl. driven 10y ST. an also
was to be the age of machines made of
| flesh and bone, driven by brains The
English machine set up on this model
was a trade machine. 1t extended all
over the world and it brought TO its
! controllers a steadily flowing stream
| of gold But its engineers, who were
| wise enough to care assiduousiy for
their machines of iron and steel and
brass, did not seem to devote similar
| attention to their machines of flesh and
| bone. That was the British mistake.
The German Machine.
About the tine that Bismarck began
| to set his economic machinery in mo-
ton, the Americans, recovered from
civil war, began TO take advantage OF
the possibilities of this newly found
force of organization. But they APP
piled it only 10 money making, and not
to money saving. They Instituted their
machines in banking houses, and care
fully excluded them from the council
chambers of state
Bismarck did all that the British had
done, he did all that the Americans were
doing, and then he ala much more. he
developed around the imperial throne
of Germany a great machine having
four reciprOcating partS-rnihI&rS, po-
lNicaI economic and social-aN con-
tribUtinS and adding daily to the power
and the glory O< the empire That ma
chine .r.ade use OF every German. 1t
had coneTiete control over every man,
and ii made each do the thing which
seemed in the mind OF the stare to be
most necessary for the advancement
OF the military power OF Germany. OF
the political influence OF tho Iohen-
zoilcrns Il the economic welfare OF the
state. ard of the social betterment OF
the German race.
Tariff the Weapon.
For the political, economic ard social
oryani..a-iUa ne used Is ais principal
i'm Element, the tariff He took into the
h,.Hcs the control Of this agency OF
HE and death 10 trade, and so used il
as TO make Tic Zollvei Elm represent
tae highest material Interests OF every
kind and coalition Of men in Germany.
Hc had 40 Tree traders conscience and
no Tariff baIor's lapacity- lie used
intelligence N the study Of the tariII
problem and skill in fits application
FOrJy ears nave passt {, ana now Ger
man. - ne most sUcc, SSfUl lndUstT.5.
community Oh Garth. and, considering
its na-ulaI resources, and oOnSeSted
population. its people suffer less from
poverty JEan 30 TIE people Of any othef
nation. and yet the Germans are filled
with political CiScOnte=t
The German Advance.
When COibe-i, ti.s =. e. minister Of !
Louis XIV. N 1854 revised the French
system Of taAat4Ou the BASIS of tie
theory that the labor OF its people IS
the create - ass; of q state, he laid
the Foundation Tor modern commercial
systems. ara. as bipToduct. he pro-
dUcCd tins doctrine of the protective /
Jariff Crri that time the tariff had
beer Gs10 Only as means o. raising /
revenue, aud had been levied with re-
spcct 70 how much the king happened
to need. II the Two and a hair centuries
since CoIOcTts day the taIiiG question /
has been the chief concern OF fiscal !
LEGISLATION IL every commercial cOun- !
try Ia that 80 years the protective |
tariff has built new EatioEs and mas /
wrecked ola 6.cs: t has encouraged /
manufacturing ana discourage agri- /
culture; il has fattened the farmers |
and starred the manufacturer; it has /
fostcrSG commerce and il has killed /
traaC: il has caUS ed nations 10 go 10 /
war and il has prevented wars-one /.
thing or another according to how, /
when and by whom it has been used. /
Host Scientific Tariff.
Statesmen Of every nation now gen |;
eIally admit that the German tariff I
rolicy, in the selfish interest Of Ger /
pany, IS The most scientifically wrought !
and the most slzilfull: applied tariff I
system YET evolved. The Importance I
OF the German empire among me pa- |,
tions of the world is great, not in the /
ratio OF the strength of its military J
eSta 5lishment, but according to it's in !
duStrial and economic condition. That I
the German empire now is the most !
highly organized Industrial nation of 1
the world. and that it has attained this !
supremacy in only 80 years, cannot be |
explained except by an examination Of |
the German tariff policy.
The Zolverein-the German customs !
union-was formed in 1888 TO put an ;
end TO the restraints laid upon trade !
by the excessive tariffs levied by each
one of the two score German states and |
which practically prohibited general in
ternsl commerce. As it was the first !
purpose OF the Zoliverein TO remove !
restrictions from commerce, it was in
evitable that German fiscal thought
should have inclined toward free thrade
rather than protection BY the time
the German native Industries had began
to recover from the exhaus-
lion u tEe -NdBOieOHlC wars, OODUen
was leading the free trade movement
in England and was affecting the fiscal
politics of all Europe, as Wen as Of
America.
The Revenue Tariffs.
Thus in 1865, when Prussia had gain
ed the supremacy OF Germany and had
excluded Austria from the nation, the
ZollpaTlament in Berlin was controlled !
by the anti-protectiouists. and the tariff |!
revision accomplished at that time.
making the formation of the empire
economically certain, was a tariff for
revenue only Bismarck at that time |
was an earnest advocate of strict
revenue tariff At that time Germany !
was concerned only with the problem !
of freeing its commerce from every |
possible restriction, in order that trade |
might exist, whether its profits were
small or large. Nevertheless, the in
clusion of the German states within a
tariff wall, providing absolute free
trade for domestic commerce end levy !