Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-02-28
WOODROW wilson
VIEWS IN
"The New Freedom by Him
Touches on All Public
Problems.


Copyright. 1914 bg Doubleday. Page 8 Co
tThe publication Of new book by
Woodrow Wilson constituted the chief po-
litieai event OF the spring, second only 10
his Inauguration, This book, The New
Freedom" is lust on the press. Follow
Ing are brief extracts from the advance
proofsl
FY<HE tariff question rs not the
4 question TINT 1t was fifteen or
a twenty or thirty years ago. II
used 10 be said by the advocates
of the tariff that il made no difference
even If there were a great wall sep
arating us from the commerce of the
world. because inside the United States
there was so enormous an area of alb
solute free trade that competition
within the country kept prices down to
a normal level. that so long MS one
state could compete with all the others
ia the United states. and all the others
compete with ii. there would be only
that Kind of advantage gained which
is gained by superior brain, superior
economy. the better plant. the better
administration; all of the things that
have made America supreme and kept
prices in America down, because Amer
lean genius was competing with Amer
lean genius | must add that SO long
as that was true there was much TO
be snid IN defense OF the protective
tariff
But the point now Is that the pro.
teetive tariff Inns been taken advantage
OF by some men TO destroy domestic
competition, TO combine all existing
rivals within orr free trade area and
TO make it impossible for new men to
come into the field Under the high
tariff there has been formed network
Of factories which in their connection
dominate the market OF the United
States and establish their own prices:
whereas. therefore. II was once argua
bic that the high tariff did got create
/ the high cost Of living, 1t Is now no
longer arguable that these combina-
tons do not-not by reason Of the tar
iiI. but by reason Of their combination
under the tariff settle what prices
shall be paid. settle how much the
product shall be and settle. moreover,
what shall be the market for labor
The protective" policy, as we hear
it proclaimed today. bears no relation
10 the original doctrine enunciated by
| Webster and Clay. The .'infant indus.
/ tries which those statesmen desired
! to encourage. have grown up and
grown gray. but they have always had
new arguments for special fayors
Their demands have gone far beyond
what they dared ask for in the days OF
Mr. Blaine and Mr. Mckinley, though
both those apostles OF protection were
before they died ready to confess that
the time had even then come TO call n
halt on the claims OF the subsidized in
dustries, William Mckinley before be
died showed symptoms of adjustmgnt
to the new age such as his successors
have not exhibited. You remember
what the utteranccs OF Mr. McKinleys
last month were with regard to the
policy with which his name is partcu-
Early identified. | mean the policy OF
protection You remember how he
Joined in opinion with what Mr. Blaine
before him had said-namely, that we
had devoted the coantry to policy
which, too rlgidly persisted in. was
proving policy Of restriction and that
we must look forward to time that
ought to come very soon when we
should enter into reciprocal relations
of trade with all the countries Of the
world