Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-05-03
TOLLS EXEMPTION IS
BLOW TO BUSINESS
VIII ONiA BENEFIT TilE SUB-
SInlIlD SHIPPING INDUS
TRY or THE 1. s..
Will HURT MIDDLEWEST
Believes That II VIII BE u Dcnth.
Blow 90 The Manufacturing
Induslfic- IN Middle West.
BY PRESTON LANGwoRTHyJ

CBN PRESTON IANGWORTHYD
The exemption from payment Of
tells would benefit none other than
The subsidized shipping industry OF
the United States O. =. Morgan ct
ED and manufacturers on the Al
lantic coast and Gulf coast and per
haps the consumer on the Pacific
coast, should the middlcman find no
plausible excuse for holding him up.
Again, tho people in the middle west
viii not DE at all benefited by toll
exemption any more than the people
themselves on the Atlantic coast as
lar as concerns the average com.
modify. As q matter Of fact the
manufacturing concerns Of the mid
ole west win quite likely 30 out or
business, why because toll kemp
ton will enable the manufacturer
on the Atlantic coast to ship TO the
Pacific coast and the coast inland
trade at = rate approximately % pei
cent less than that charged the man
UfaCtureT I'm the middle west. Ever.
the manufacturers in western New
York and Pennsylvania win be
hl'GNlN AIhlAA' hHI'h ANAilfF wv 30 ~
owners extend them rate concessions
TO absorb the rail rate to the sea-
board, which is highly improbable.
II sccms hardly possible that trans
continental rail service win be in the
least impaired by water rates. His
tory tells us that the Erie canal is
paIallcdcl by trunk lines and the
ohio river is also, and so with The
Mississippi river from st. Louis 10
New Orleans. Now, the only argu-
mcut remaining against The repeal is
the construction Of the l~Iay-Paunco-
luto treaty.
In 1850 when the United States
W,s IN the throos Of civil war Is
sues and very much weakened
thereby, bullying England forced
upon as the ClaytOn-B ulwer treaty,
which provided IN substance that any
canal constructed across Panama
should be operated as a sort Of part
rership affair between the United
States and England. In 1901 the
Iay-pauucofrtc treaty was entered
into between This country and Great
Britain and the sole consideration,
10y virtue 'l NIlll IsllE ana was III
duccd to rcliHquish any claims she
might have in Panama under the
terms of the Clnyton-Bulwc treaty.
WIS that the United states would
not discriminate as TO rates I'm deal
ing with any Of the powers, and
that shippers IN this country as wcll
us shiu-ownore should not be favored.
There has been M no time any ques-
ton but that our ships engaged in
foreign commerce should pay tolls,
hut j. p. Morgan q co. saw a chance
10 exempt from ton payment tho
merchant marine plying along our
coasts boy q technical construction Of
the lav-paunccfote treaty. President
Wilson has been strongly in favor
Of tho repeal, Why-cvou though hc
states his construction Of the Hay
paunccfotc treaty is the only motive,
1t IS very much doubted IL this Il
altogether true.
Immediately following the passage
Of the bill i'm its present form en-
Cmpting our coastwisc merchant ma
rine from toll payment, England and
Germany entered into a secret agree
mont to rctard and iniurc I'm every
way possible the growth Of our for
cign %shippin9 trade. The report was
circulated throughout Washington