The Calumet news., 1913-04-08

which the country has witnessed with
In the hast generation. While the
whole face and method OF our indus
trial aud commercial life were being
changed beyond recognition The tNrin
schedules have remained what they
were before the change began or have
moved in the direction they were civ
en- when 10 large circumstance ut car
industrial development was what IL Is
today cur task is to squurr them
with the actual Facts. The sooner that
IL done the suoucr We shall oSCapr
from suffering from the facts and the
sooner our men of huSiuess will hr
free 10 thrive 10y the law of nature
uhe nature OF free buSineSsi Instead
OF by the law OF Legislation and arti
fetal arrangement.
How Tariff Has Grown.
We have seen tarn legislation wan.
der very far aiield in our day-vcry far
indeed from the field ~ which our
prosperity might have had Il normal
growth and stimulation No one who
looks the tacts squarely ia the face or
knows anything that lies beneath The
surface OF action can fail Ia perceive e
the principles upon which recent tWir
legislation has been hased. We long
ago passed beyond the modest notion
or protecting" the Industries ot the
country aud tuOved boldly forward 10
the idea that they were entitled tu the
direct patronage ot the government
For II long time-a tine 50 long that
the men now active 10 public policy
hardly remember the conditions that
preceded it-We nave sought ~ our
tariff schedules to give each group ar
manufacturer OF producers what they
themselves thought that they urcdrd
In order Ia maintain practically rN
elusive market as against the rest ut
the world Consciously or unconscious
~ We have built up set ot privileges
and exemptions from comp"lition H.
hind which IT WAS easy hy any. even
the crudcSt. forms ot combination Ia
organize monopoly, until AT last moth
ing Is normal. nothing is obliged 10
stand the tests OF efficiency aud ccona.
my, In oGr world OF big business. but
everything thrivrS hy concerted mr.
rangement. Only new principles ut
action will save us from hna nard
crystallization OF monopoly ana u CON.
plete loss or the iulluences that quick
an enterprise and Keep independent en-
ergy alive
Must Abolish PRIVILEGE.
II Is plain what those principles must
b.. We must abolish everything that
bears even the semhIance OF privilege
~ of auy kind OF artificial advan.nr.
and mt our business mcn and pro
ducers under the stimulation OF con.
stant necessity To be efficient. ecuuom.
zeal and enterprising. masters of com
petltive supremacy. better workers aud
merchants than any in the world.
, Aside from the duties laid upon arti.
cleS which we do not and probably
cannot produce. therefore, and the
duties laid upon iuxurics and merely
| for the sake OF the revenues they Weld
the object OF the tariff duties hence
! forth laid must be effective competi-
tiou. the whetting OF American wits by
contest with the wits of the rest of the
world
II would be unwise to move toward
this end headlong. with reckless haste
or with strokes that cut at the very
roots OF what has grown M among
us by long process and at our own IN.
Nitation II does not alter a thing IN
upset II and break II and deprive it of
IA chance To change. IL DESTROYS II.
We must make changes in our fiscal
laws, III our fiscal system. whose OBJ
Ject II development. more free and
wholesome Development not revolution
OF upset or confusion We must build
up trade. especially foreign trade. We
need tie outlet and the enlarged field
OF energy more than we ever did he
fore we must build M industry as
Wen ana must adopt freedom in the
place of artificial stimulation only "a
Tar rs II will build. not pull down I'm
dealing with the tariff the method by
which this may he done will be n mat
ter OF judgment. exercised item by
item TO some not accustomed to the
eNcltementS aud responsibilities ol
greater freedom our methods may IN
some respects and at some points seem
heroic. but remedies may be heroic
and yet be remedies II is our bust