Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-19
Monday, September 10, 1921.
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE


improved when the doctors disagree
some are so cynical as to assert that
they are We're the cynicism genery
ally believed the doctors would have
no octasion for existence. however.
The protection doctors disagree, vi
oIcntly. as 10 the need of an embargo
to protect the American dye manu-
facturer and they are not saying nice
things about the patient, either. The
patient, the manufacturers of dyes in
this country assert that they will be
unable TO cope with the Germans I'M
der the present tariff, that the latter
have large Quantities Of dyes all
made UP with q view to recovering
the world market at any cost, that
they are able to do this if permitted
TO send in their goods, which owing
to the rate of exchange as well as to
other reasons may be sold at prices
sure to ruin the American makers
They ask the country TO recall what
happened when war was declared,
when 1t seemed impossible for the al
lies to meet and counteract the use
of the poison gases. Those who then
accomplished the seemingly impos-
sible are now but asking to have the
life of their enterprise spared. They
point to England, France and Italy
which by embargoes are keeping out
the German dyes and they are seek
ting to have the embargo now in our
emergency tariff continued.
This claim is supported by the sec
retaries of our war and navy depart
ments and the President is under
stood to favor continuance of the en-
other hand the manufacturers Of
goods which have to bear the burden
of the higher prices for dyes especi-
ally those selling their goods in for
eign markets, claim that the embargo
Is unwarranted, that the maintenance
of an industry on which to rely for
war purposes is bunkum; that the
manner in which the Chemical Foun-
dation got possession of the valuable
patents is "a transaction the effront-
cry and brazenness of which are un-
surpassed in the annals Of American
history" Representative Frear de-
ciared in the debate that not one fact
had been presented Showing the diff
ference in the cost Of production or
any reason why there should be an
embargo offered at this time"
have seldom resorted to embargo as
means of protection but if, as said
on what appears to be good authori-
ty, Germany has in store a large
quantity Of dyes with which she pro-
poses to break" the American man
ufactnrers the condition is unusual
and it may be necessary to meet it
with unusual measure
a continuance of the embargo I'M
der the emergency tariff for time
might meet this problem OF Ger
many's present stock. Others of the
allies appear to think so, having
adopted the embargo policy. And
after our experience with the Ger
man dye makers during the war We
may well feel that little extortion
from their American competitors is
preferable to having the Germans
capture our market; what they would
do with it, how they would milk II,
ought to be evident. The House hav-
ing voted 10 strike out the embargo
provision, and the Emergency tariff
being about to expire by limitation
and permanent tariff legislation some
distance in the future. the interval in
which the Germans may take the ad-
vantage they desire is not a pleasant
one for the American dye makers to
contemplate. Their relief would have
to come through joint resolution
continuing the control Of the war
board over the dye impor.ations