New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1916-06-03
THE TARIFF.
New Iberia, May "a, 1916.

'Nt'c' VI t"e I'tn INST. VIII say mrs
I 1T by the signature, Sub Glitter
J intended it should be understood
that the writer was woman.
Now. while | neither know, MOI
prefer to know all about tn,
tarlk. believe am better posteo
than the average person, because
! have studied the subject in an
unbiased, impcrsOnal way since
the year 1856. For full twenty
years after that date i was con
slant reader of The Congressional
Record. and which supplemented
by the very clear lucid teachings
of Henry Georges works which
l began reading also that same
year, entitlc my opinions on the
subject to consideration, even if
j am yet a Sub Citizen. At any
rate | shall ask no concessions on
that score.
While I use sugar to very
limited extent, I've never had my
self in mind when | spoke of che
poor God has been good to
me. But I've believed since I've
been able to reason that we should
always consider the interest of
the many before the interest of the
few-even if those few happen to
be ourselves.
Yet, according to Mr.. Pharr's
own statements in his first paper
"Who Gets the Tariff" only the
refincries and trusts profit by a
protective tariff on sugar, L
thought he made this fact quite
clear in his first paper and /
heartily concur with him. His
second paper was not so clear. In
decd it seems to me in considering
the subject at large his ideas are
quite hazy and I'm inclined to
believe, if he would get from Mr..
X. S. Mcmahon or Mr.. Ed.
Weeks, Henry Georges Protec-
ton or Free Trade and make a
thorough study of the subject, ne
would be delighted with the
knowledge he would then obtain.
Before these world wars began,
in the spring and summer Of 1914
sugar in New York city, on ac-
count Of the small reduction in
tariff rates fell to four cents
pound. Doing light house keen
ing there at that time, | repeat
eddy bought 3 IL pound packages
Tor IA cents. NEARLY every
thing in the grocery line is sold
IN packages there.)
But. a. soon as the European
confagration broke out it began
to rise and has been rising ever
since, yet the greatest upward
lap it made, if | am not mistak-
-, was Immediately after Con-
eress put it back on the protected
list.
Had the war not begun, it
would have fallen even lower, be- ;
cause we must bear in mind it !
had not yet reached the free list. d
Democracy at one time believed
IN tariff for revenue purposes.
In other words. they looked on it u
10 necessary evil. But, the a
more enlightened of all known 7
political parties to-day, know \
hat the tariff is tax, that robs I,
he many to enrich the. few. We c
never had a more effective tariff d
han we have now in these world :,
vars. One great good and about ii
he only one | see, in this savage d.
European murder-spree, is that it ia
, calculated as nothing else could :
ave done to open the eyes Of the f.
lind to the futility of tariff walls A
nd the interdependence Of the
lation. Truly we need each other
nd by giving much, we receive
luch.
Even the proud, though weak
need. but kindly Mckinley, ones d
be high priest Of the protective
Lriff. before his martyr death. b
to the evils of throttline
'ade at our national boundaries.
nd became an almost out and out &c
zee trader, but he did not call it
' that name-it would have been|
70 humiliating. He called it nj,
eciprocitylll
|osie Thorpe Price.