Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-03-28

LONDON, March 2S-The recent re-
volt in Manchester, the home of Coz
den, against the cherished British ira
dition of open markets for the goods
Of all the world, was only the start in
la movement which has gone steadily
forward in the great industrial centers
.of the country, Birmingham, Sheffield,
Edinburgh, Leeds and practically all of
the important trade centers joining in
the move for a straightout tariff law. 1t
is not a political movement, as tariff
controversies in the United States have
been; this is essentially an econom;>
movement, spontaneous in trade adr
and agricultural quarters, with the war
and the feeling againsc competition as
the chief incentive 20 a change.
1T has reached the point." said an
American official who has been closely
studying the movement, that any op-
ponent of tariff is now denounced as
n German sympathizer, so that the ola
Golden men and free traders are oblig-
ed to keep silent for fear of losing their
reputation by being classed as Ger
mans"
All the large commercial cities with
out exception came out definitely for a
tariff law at the recent gathering here
of commercial bodies from all parts of
the kingdom. Manchester. the second |
city in the country, had already shown
its position by retiring its board of di- |
rectors who proposed free trade res
oiution and sought to send free trade
delegates to London so Manchester |
was not represented at the London con-
ference, for the significant reason that |
il. had refused to approve the presence
Of free trade delegates But Birming- |
ham, Sheffield and all the other great
centers were represented in an i'm
p7essive gathering of the men who run
the big industries of the country; a /
gathering of hard-headed business |
men, each one of them looking like the
typical John Bull, and all Of them i'm
bued with the idea that the old tradi-
tons must go and new tariff law tags
its place. The resolutions of these diff |
ferent cities show the varying shades
OF view, but all in the same general d.
rection of a tariff.
Birmingham's resolution asked that
the government inquire into the desira-
bility of fostering and safeguarding
British industries which have suffered
from foreign competition, mainly from
Germany. AS originally drawn, the
Birmingham resolution had boldly US
ed the word protection" and the pro-
gram headed the Birmingham resolu-
ton with the title: Protection and
Development of Industries. But con.
seryatism prevailed on the use of
words-protection bein a new and
strange word in a country of free trade
traditions-an the fostering and
safeguarding" of British industries was
finally hit upon and adopted as
phrase less Earring to the old ideas.
Shefields resolution was even firm
er, and declared. That forthwith there
should be put in hand the necessary in
quiry for raising a very substantial
portion of the revenue by import du-
ties" Sheffield also proposed: That
encouragement, and, if need be, finan-
cial aid must be accorded to the deve.-
opment in these realms of such trades
as are necessary for national safety
and are indispensable to the due de
velopment of other industries which
have hitherto been the monopoly of
alien enemy countries"