Arizona republican., 1913-04-08
A New Yellow Peril


 IcsIic's Weekly is furnishing some figures prob ably. calculated impress congress whwen it takes Up the iron and steel schedules of the tariff It fs shown that Japan and China engaging in iron and steel productions: that they have vast sup plies of iron ore, have installed modern plants and that the highest skilled labor those plants is paid st a month. whe in this country the same kind uf skilled labor receives $26o month; that skilled labor in China and Japan receives five six cents day. against $2 day, paid in the United States.
 It $ mentioned that the Chinese have lately ccivcd a large order from the Philippines which there were German and American bidders who, of coarse could not compete against the cheap labor of the Chinese plants. Passing over the improb- ability that the Japanese and Chinese could long maintain such scale of in compcti- ton with the higher scale for skilled labor every where else if indeed there is any in the iron and steel plants of those countries now, what this has do with the tariff. We cannot regulate wages in China and Japan to prevent the ironmasters of those nations from under bidding iron and steel producers in the markets the world By throwing a high enough tariff wall about the Philippines have power do could prevent d repetition of the disaster, described by I.esies. but there would be the of the world open the oriental iron and steel invasion unless every nation should safeguard
  wall In such each nation would isolate itself. for a barrier against China and Japan would be an equal barrier against every other country.
 When the production iron nd steel in the orient becomes great to threaten to overwhem America there will be time enough take against the irruption That can be very quickly. But do think that this oriental fant industry should be allowed become an cusc for the preservation the increase of the present
 If the industry in Japan and China should grow such proportions Lesies fears, a problem would of course, be presented. We could not init the destruction of of the country's great industries could protect it against all world competition to give it the absolute mastery American consumers for the interests of our consumers are of infinitely importance in the aggregate than the interests of any American in dustry
 We would have to protect American labor; enable it maintain the high standard of wages and conditions has attained. same would have to protect the American consumer against the rapacty of monopoly from which he has already suffered much. Such d condition as lies believes is threatened would make necessary the adoption of the progressive principle contained in the following plank of the national progressive patfor.:
 We urge the establishment of a strong federal ad- ministrative commission of high standing. which shall maintain permanent active supervision indus trial corporations engaged in interstate commerce. or such of them as of public importance. doing for them what the government the national banks and what is done for the rail- roads by the interstate commerce commission Such commission must enforce the complete publicity of those corporate transactions which of public interest; attack unfair competition false cap italzation. and special privilege and by continuous trained watchfulness guard and keep equally to all the highways of American commerce.
 The problem could not be solved by the present method of tariff legislation or matter. by method of tariff legislation. but by a combina- of scientific legislation and strong fed eral control exercised impartiay in the interest the producer and the consumer.