Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-05-30
HIGH TARIFF
ABSURDlTIE
Eastern Writer Draws Fatal
Parallel Column on the
Post-Intelligencer
RIDICULOUS ARGUMENTS
Cheap American Products
Bother Canadians Notwith-
standing Cheap Labor

One has not long to look for evi.
idences of madness when a tariff bill
is pending in Congress, for it is then
that a species of distemper seiZes
upon certain of our fellow citizens,
through which they lose all sense of
proportion, ignore the law of cause
and effect, and run riot with logic.
The fatal parallel column has been
the undoing of many an indiscreet
sophist, but it remained for the ul-
tra-conservative Post-lntelligencer of
Seattle to demonstrate thus it's own
want of consistency. In a recent is
sue there appeared two columns side
by side, and running nearly the length
of the page, dealing with the tariff
question. In the first column, which
purported to be special" from Vic
toria, B. c., was a review and COM
ment on "the mass of evidence sub
mitted to the Royal Agricultural
commission" In the second column
was a lacrymose protest of The Pa
cific Coast Shippers Association
against a reduction of the tariff.
According to the Canadian account,
"Oregon and Washington eggs, fruit,
and vegetables are driving the mar
ket farmers of British Columbia out
of their own markets in Victoria,
Vancouver and New Westminster" A
man who had had twenty years ex.
perience in Ontario was forced, aftei
four years of effort in British Co.
lumbia, to give up his fight against
American competition. Even the
American hen has entered into the
conspiracy, and is laying down eggs
In Vancouver for thirty-six cents a
dozen, while the local hels are hold
ing out for fifty-five. The suffering
Canadians are waveii ing between a
plan to have the date of deposit
stamped on American eggs, or sim
ply marked "Washington." They dis
trust the dating for fear the Yam
KEGS will post-date them; whereas it
they are stamped washington" it is
hoped that no patriotic Canadian
will care for them.
Meanwhile the Shippers Associa-
ton is making out an equally good
case in the second column against the
h.a
Association, that we cannot COM
pete with the horde of Hindus, Chin
ese and Japanese labor, constituting
over 80 per cent of the common la
Dor on the other side of the bound
ary." And it adds, Even with the
existing tariff British Columbia shin
giles have found a foothold in the
Eastern States because of these con-
ditions, and We feel that our manu-
facturers will either have to go out
Of business or remove to foreign soil"
Very sad. isn't it? Very, very sad!
Whatever is to become of these poor
shingle makers? If they remain on
this side of the boundary they will
be ruined by the pauper labor of
Canada. If they move to the other
side of the line they will be put out
OF business by the pauper labor of
America. Truly, a sad dilemma
Lest there should linger a suspicion
in any quarter that the Shippers AS
sociation had caught the genuine tar
If distemper, it gives voice to this
gem of blown-in-the-bottle, once-an.
infant.always-an-infa logic: "The
consumers and retailers will not be
benefited one cent by the removal of
the duty, because already, in antici-
patton of free trade, an act has been
introduced in the British Columbia
Parliament proposing to double the
royalty on licensed timber"
In other words, our manufacturers
cannot live if the duty is taken off
from lumber; but if it is taken off
the Canadian government, by means
of increased royalties, will keep the
price just as high as it was before
so that the consumer will not be bene
flied, and the lumberman will be driv
en- out of business.
Oh, most hellish device ever con
trived by Satan to torment pulling
infant. Wither shall the poor man
ufacturer flee to escape the diabolica
Vaccinations Of the free traders?
Nor are the Pacific Coast Shippers
Association members the only ones
afflicted with the tariff distemper
The sugar men have it. They de
clare that as soon as sugar goes or
the free list it will be so cheap thai
It will destroy the American grower
and so dear that the consumers will
receive no benefit. 1t is the same
with wool, and with all the various
things that the free traders have hat