Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-10-11
A TARIFF POLICY THAT
SUITS AMERICANS

They Do Not Propose to Full
Down Their Fences. They
Do Intend to Protect Ameri-
can Labor and Industry.
And They Are Fairly Well
Satified With Results Thus
Far.
We ask our readers to read again
with special attention our para
graphs from an interview given by
w. r. Hearst to an English news
paper yesterday.
The English are in hopeful
mood just now.
They hope that we will let them
manage what we built.
They hope that we will accept
seriously Professor Wilson'S pro-
gramme and make this free trade
country-which would be very
pleasant for free trade England.
In a previous statement Mr..
Hearst had pointed out the fact
that the Americans propose to man
age the American canal without
English supervision.
And in the statement quoted be-
low we make it quite clear that the
people of this country remember
the story of the fox that lost his
tail-and advised the other foxes
to cut their tails off, as it is much
nicer not to have any tail.
The United States finds the bushy
tail of propection for industry and
labor quite useful and comfortable,
and does not propose to chop it off,
simply because England is mutt
lated.
We invite special attention to
our readers again to some para
graphs in Mr. Hearst latest state
ment--these paragraphs express
clearly and in condensed form the
opinions of at least nine-tenths OF
the citizens of this country. And
it is well to have the English learn,
and have politicians in this country
learn, that the Americans will not
experiment with the free trade OF
England, a free trade forced upon
Great Britain by the fact that her
own territory was incapable OF
feeding her own population.
Mr.. Hearst says:
"There are some abuses in the
tariff which need correction, but
for my part believe in a proper
tariff for protection, and / believe
that the growth of the unexampled
prosperity of America has been
largely stimulated by the principle
of protection, in spite of certain
abuses in the SYSTEM"
"Mr. Wilson says that we have
grown to such point of production
that we overflow our own markets
and that we must extend our mark
cts and open up foreign markets to
our produce.
This is quite true; but one
reason that we fill and overflow
our own markets is because legiti-
mate protection has prevented the
product of foreign manufacturers
and foreign cheap labor from in
vading our markets and crowdine
our own manufacturers and our
own laborers out of business. I"
eff we have had such splendidly
prosperous business conditions at
home, it would not be well or wise
to alter too rapidly or too radically
the system under which these
splendidly prosperous business con.
ditions have developed. Further
more, we cannot secure the mark
cts of foreign nations merely by re-
ducing our own tariff wall. We
must reduce the tariff wall of fore
ign nations.
"By demolishing our own tariff
fence we may get out of our own
pasture, but cannot get into the
pasture of foreign nations until we
have demolished their tariff fences.
eff we sacrifice our protective
policy we sacrifice our one oppor-
tunity to lower the tariff bars OF
foreign countries. 1t is only by
reciprocity that the tariff bars of
foreign countries can be lowered.
IF we maintain our protective
fence we can say to foreign count
ries: I'VE will lower our bars to
your products if you will lower
your bars to our products. But il
we have no tariff fences we can
make no such beneficial bargain.
"Mr. Wilson also disapproves OF
American business men, and con-