Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-19
ENGLAND'S PROPOSED TARIFF

The latest dispatches from England state that after
the war she is to abandon free trade and adopt regulated
tariff to fit conditions arising during the She is to
arrange her tariff there will be rate for her friends
during the war; her alieh; another for friendly neutas
another for unfrendy neutras and still another for her
enemies She will find she has undertaken big JOB II
she tries to punish the balance of the world for not taking
sides with her. She may place a tariff on American
products that will shut them out of her markets if she so
chooses but she will have the bill to pay in enhanced
prices For instance she put high tariff on wheat
but when she does she will have to pay what the trade Oh
the world fixes the market price plus such tal1f as Se
adds to it. She place tariff on steel products but
she will have to pay the price of steel In the worlds
markets plus such tariff as she adds to them Inc IDEA
that the foreigner be made to pay the tariff was eX-
poded long ago The consumer pays everything whether
it is part of the cost of manufacture the freight or
fictitious value added by tariff or any other laws
1t is probable she will undertake to carry out her
threat for if she does she will face serious troubles at
home that will endanger the government
Besides if she undertakes to discriminate as to the
nations she will deal with she will drive such nations as
are on her black list into combination against her. More
than that England is carrying natlon her SHIPS are on
every sea- and freightng the worlds commerce was the
work that made her the richest nation on earth She
cannot discriminate against any country ana expect to
get that countrys carrying business Indeed when the
war is over she will have found that much of her carry
ing trade has been lost to her forever
The United States has been her best customer but she
will always be such. American capital lett the oceans
for others for the that the newneSs OF the co
try and its lmitabe demands for Improvement ana eX
plotaton made other investments far profitable
than the ocean carrying trade Her forests and elds hef
mines and agricultural resources and the transportation
systems necessary for their development Offered far
more attractive fields for investment where the returns
were larger This is being changed. The country is
pretty well supplied with railroads, and water powers
have been harnessed mines opened and factories estab
shed until that field can no longer furnish employment
for all the counys capital The result is that idle money
again turns to the place for profitable investment
The last report of the Secretary of Commerce shows that
in the last year the American tonnage engaged in foreign
trade has more than doubled with 73O ships added in that
time and an increase of tonnage from about one million
seventy-ive thousand to above 21900OQ tons.
At the same time every shpyard in the country busy
turning out ships and within few years the United
States instead of hiring her goods hauled to market Will
not only haul her own but will be competitor OF England
as we'll for this trade.
The history of the American marine with her clipper
ships that set new pace for the world shows what
Americans can do in this way and gives promise of re-
lief from dependence others in reaching the worlds
markets with their products This country will not lose
any sleep over any tariff England may levy for as the
good state of Oregon declares in her motto, she flies
with her wings