Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-29

ment here and throughout the coun-
try.
Birmingham and the other indus /
trial communities have spoken along
similar lines. but without the sensa-
tional exit Of the staid free trade di-
rectors. Birmingham resolution
calls for the appointment OF business
men to formulate business policies,
particularly deterioration of n gem
eral tariff system. This is recognized
the traditional policy, and against the
intellectuals and large iawyer-element
in public life which support the old
policies
Following the Manchester agitation
the London Spectator, one of the most
solid organs of conservative public
opinion, posted the question, why
not general TARIFF II answered its
own query by declaring: "In our
opinion the time has come when the
government should impose a general
tariff. It went on to say that the
new tariff should fake the form of
general nd valorem duties Of 10 per
cent on all goods entering the coun-
try, the ad valorem being settled by
board Of appraisers without appeal
similar to the American system. When
the war is over. It added, special com
mercial treatment might be given 10
the allied nations such as France TIA
ly and Russia, and to neutrals who
have played the game. this latter APP
parently applying to the United states
in case its policy on the blockade and
armed merchantmen did not become
too onerous for the allies. II declared
that the need Of a general tariff was
now universally admitted; that income
taxes had now reached maximum
and should not be further increased,
and that income taxes had now
reached q maximum aud should not
be further increased, and that India
and Egypt were already applying an
al valorem tariff system.
Lord Cromer a Convert.
Lord Cromer. who applied the ad
valorem tariff 10 Egypt, was one Of
the first Of the important personalities
to endorse the proposal for the same
system In England. AS an old and
convinced free trader he wrote II
should like to say that lEagree gener-
ally with your view expressed in why
not a general tariff | have for long
thought that the government should
have introduced such n tariff at an
early period Of the war. The imposi-
ton of Indirect taxes for revenue pur-
poses is in no way opposed to froe
trade principles"
The free trade element is standing
by its guns, Mr. Hirst of the Econo-
mist being one Of the chief adVocatcs
of the traditional system Mr.. Hirst
is the biographer of Adam smith, the
great pioneer of free trade, and he
resents the apostasy of Manchester
and warns Premier Asquith that a
number Of HIS colleagues are officers
OF the Free Trade Union He adds.
protective taxes should be % use
less during the war. Cd disastrous af-
ter the war, and f3) deeply dishonor-
able to the liberal ministry which pro-
posed them. He expresses the hope
that England will not follow the
fashion of the American politician in
James Russell Lowell's Bigelow Pa
pers:
go free trade through thick and thin,
Because It kind o rouses,
The folks to vote--and keeps US in,
our quiet custom houses.
Aside from the debate of the more
sedate journals. all the others are en-
tering into the tariff discussion. one
recalls the old sayinI: What Nan
chester does today. England does to-
morrow" The Globe discusses. Man
chester; its decline and fan Tho
action Of Manchester was, il says u