The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-19
Foolish Business Plan.


offered them in return for like conces
sions. Here is what the Quebec
Chronicle says in part.
Under the Wilson tariff revision
the dominion receives free that for
which Laurier and his friends were
prepared to make this country an ad-
junct of the United States. And
Canada preserves her fiscal freedom.
If she finds that the expectation of an
article is injurious to the country,
then she can simply put up the bars
on this side. That is what was done
by the liberals IN this province IN tne
case of the expectation of pulpwood.
1t has proved satisfactory in that in
stance and no doubt ii will in others. T"
Every word of this is true, and
those farmers of the United States
who voted against protection last
November. are now beginning to
find it out for themselves, when it is
too late.
Various other developments are al
so tending to make the people of the
United States wish they could retrace
their political steps. The southern
sugar planters are squirming, as are
the wool growers of the Western
States and other parts of the country,
to say nothing of the manufacturers
in all directions.
Laborers are not yet feeling the eff
fects of tariff smashing but when
mill owners are forced to meet the
cheap labor of the Old World, and
cut down wages according, it will be
realized just what protection has
meant for the prosperity of the
whole country.
The political effect of these discov-
cries and of democratic dissension
over the tariff is already beginning
to make itself manifest in variety
of ways.
One of the most significant and far
reaching of these is a spirited attack
upon President Wilson by William
Randolph Hearst who supported him
in the campaign. his present ground
of opposition being the determine
ton of the administration to open our
markets to so many products of the
cheap labor of the Old World.
After arraigning the President for
aping the federalsts of the early
days of the republic and abandoning
the example of Thomas Jefferson and
every other president of the United
States from that time to this in max
ing speech from the throne" to
Congress, Mr.. Hearst in his American
quotes Mr.. Wilson's statement that
he relies upon the London Times for
news of the world, and continues as
follows:
MANY thoughtful citizens will be
led to ponder on how far Mr. Will
sons attitude toward the American
protective tariff is influenced by his
federalistic frame of mind and his
English sources of information.
"Mr Wilson's opposition to the
protective principle is not inherently
or essentially democratic.
Jefferson, the founder of the
Democratic party, recognized the
principle of protection and advocated
discriminating duties in favor of
American shipping and reciprocity
treaties in favor of American trade.
Mr. Wilson is fundamentally OPP
posed to the principle of protection,
and his idea of radical, ruthless tariff
reduction is but an expression of the
English free trade theories of Golden
and Mill
"Mr Wilson is an English free
trader
He may obscure his utterances,
but he cannot conceal his acts.
"Mr. Wilson's political economy is
the political economy of another ma.
ton and of another age.
at is the political economy of a ma
ton that is passing and of an age
that is past
mir Wilson's theories are the the
cries of books, and of British books,
but of British books that are no long
er believed by the patriotic and prac-
teal and progressive Englishmen of
today"
After showing what protection has
done for the upbuiiding of the United
States, and what might have been ac-
complished under reciprocity, Mr..
Hearst continues:
"The realization that this country
is the greatest country in the world
and the appreciation of the causes
which have made il the greatest
country in the world are almost uni
versal throughout the world, except
among the few remaining federalists
of the United States of America.
IF there is to be tariff modification
the modern American policy should
be the original democratic policy of
reciprocity and discriminating duties
in favor of American products, Amer.
lean manufactures, American com
merce and American trade.
''In our tariff we have weapon
with which we can withstand the
tariff weapons of other nations, but
We must not abandon our weapon un-
til other nations are ready to abandon
theirs.
I'm the reduction of our tariff,
through reciprocity, we have a meth
cd by which we can compel the de
duction of the tariff OF other nations,
but of what value will be a policy OF
reciprocity which does not go into
effect until after our tariff reductions
have been made?
THE Canadians scornfully rejected
our proposals of reciprocity.
Are We In return to give them the
full advantage of reciprocity without
securing any reciprocal advantages
for ourselves?
Il am loath to criticise the policy
Of the Democratic party or Of any
man whom I labored to elect, but