Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-27
GIVE THE NEW POLICY AN HONEST TRIAL.


Capital Journal which it evidently regards pOsers,
when it asks:
eoodsi il So why % dos. approve ff encourages dssi
% Does % S salem , know "a n"V prmoa on n@uUoper to,
70 the support OF any other candidate than Democrat for an important
Democrat =" ~
In reply we might ask if the Oregonian believes so
strongly in home industries that it would impose tax
all classes of people in order to support them? So its
belief is greater than ours, we must admit The tariff
is tax and can be construed anything ese and
the OregOnan has always advocated its reduction to the
level of mere producing tax except during
political campaigns All parties have favored revision
downward ever since the Mark Hanna Mckinley regime
went out of power. 1t was this demand of western
republicans led by BrstOw Norris, Cummins LaFOette
and Others who voiced the republican sentiment of their
states that paved the way for the progressive bolt and
led to the retirement of all the old hightar leaders of
the party in congress. The 0regonan in sympathy
with the movement and President Taft opposed only
the method of revision advocating tariff commission
In place OF having the work done directly by congress-
The Oregonian knows that there is no longer any
reason for taxing every family in the United States for
the benefit OF few sugar planters in Louisiana. The
present war conditions show that when foreign imports
OF sugar cut off the amount produced in this country
is mmaterial and the price has scared upward This
tariff tax acts in measure like war blockade tending
to keep foreign imports out and giving home producers
an opportunity to overcharge home consumers
AS to lumber, western product we fear no foreign
competition at home because supply of timber isl
easy of and mills are of the largest and best
and no pauper Labor country has lumber for export
Our principal competitor British Columbia can only
meet us IN competition in the foreign markets and there
our import tariff cannot protect The 0regOnan says
unfairly that the reduction of the tariff on lumber has
closed the Oregon mills and if its statement were true
and its logic sound it would follow that British Columbia
mills are working overtime to supply the increased
demand upon them when the fact is that the mills across
the Canadian line are more inactive than ours The
lumber industry of British Columbia is in worse con-
dluon OF stagnation than in Oregon fact which the
fOrtand paper Will not attempt TO denv Has Americana
free trade killed the lumber industry of Canada?
AS TO WOOL another Oregon product there is little to
say since the market quotations speak for it. II is
subject which papers like the Oregonian do not care to
discuss and we have no disposition to rub it in Free
WOOL SIMPLY meant larger demand from the American
mlls which will now be enabled to make real woolen
coth instead OF "shoddy" the latter product being
necessity which was the outgrowth of highly protected
WOOL great deal of foreign grown wool is needed in
The manufacture of certain fabrics and the almost
prohhltve tariff duty worked to restrict the operation
OF our home factories, handicap which has been
removed to the advantage alike of the mil-owner and
the w0ol-grOwer W
Some 9o per cent of our hops are sold abroad nc iS
an our surplus OF wheat and in the foreign markers
must meet the foreign product on an equal footing hence
the ansurdy OF evng import duty ON such products
AS to eggs-well hen can lay no more eggs in China
Lnan N America and the food that best tend to proc
on oI eggs should cost the Chnaman more than doas
the american AZ is true that cargo of Chinese eoos
was shipped to the Northwest but there ;s no eeSSl
reason to believe that the exneriment vii, ~ go1o
repeated Chinese eggs-and thev must ha lahelod
would be about as popular here as rats and most f
other Chinese edlbes are in this country
The whole subject of the tariff rests ON tha ,,lt;