Evening star., 1932-08-31

! prices" the Express concludes that 'the
provision will enable the governments
to handle every case on its merits, and
no outside country will have reasonable
ground for objection" The Texas paper
emphasizes the point that "for the first
time Great Britain and the Dominions
were represented on legally acknowl-
edged equality as virtually independent
nations, united by allegiance to COM
mon crown"
Putting regime of protectionism in
the land of Adam Smith, Golden and
John Stuart Mill" says the Hartford
Daily Times. "is, indeed, an experiment.
Very probably it will not prove a hene-
ficial policy, unless through the value
of demonstration of mistake, although,
of course, that should not be accepted
as certain, in advance Of the proof Of
the pudding" The Times adds: I'VE
like to believe that much British opin-
ion is correct in its expectation that the
ultimate effect Of the Ottawa agree
ments and the new tariff policy of the
United Kingdom will be to hasten tariff
reductions everywhere" On the other
hand, the Providence Journal voices the
opinion: so clearly is the policy of
pl rejection affirmed in those pacts that
not even the most ardent free trader
left in the United Kingdom can pos
sibly retain the hope that his govern
ment is merely indulging in COM
mercial experiment. and that the return
road to free trade still lies wholly open.
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Americans should be patient and
hope for the best while waiting for the
results to become evident" advises the
Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail, while
the Kansas City Star, believing that
the British industrial plant has been
built on the basis Of world trade" and
that further interference with that
trade by higher tariffs will work to the
disadvantage of Britain and lower its
standard of living" AYERS: "Unfortu-
nately, the pressure Of special interests
that desire to operate uneconomtcally
at the expense of taxpayers has raised
tariffs all over the world to absurd
heights. This consequent interruption
of trade has helped intensity the de-
preston and lower standards of living
The British Empire seems disposed TO
yield to the same pressure"
"One by one" declares the Baltimore
Evening Sun "thoSe countries which
have been buying American products
have been stirred to indignation and
reprisals. You can't kick GUS
toner in the face and sell him goods"
AAC GNCAllAlS Oull liz CIy
of those who have succeeded in build
ing a tariff wall round about us has
ever been that domestic manufacturers
could not compete against foreign made
goods without lowering the American
standard of living. Let them explain
what is happening to the American
standard Of living now that the coun-
try has curtailed its outlets for surplus
production"
That the new arrangements will work
to the disadvantage Of Great Britain
and its dominions is the opinion Of the
Columbia IS. c. State and the Spo-
kane Spokesman-Revie The SAT-
Lake DeSeret News believes that mo
great damage to United States trade
will be done" while the Pasadena Star
News feels 'it is inconceivable that the
British countries will, or desire to.
limit their trade to themselves. The
Newark Evening News contends that
1T will probably be q long time before
the actual accomplishment can be ac-
curately measured" The Topeka Daily
Capital points out that 1.-The British
government has yet to ratify the pro-
visions protecting Canada against Rus
sian dumping in the English market of
Mheat, lumber and some other articles"
The Cincinnati Times-Star concludes
that "the gains at Ottawa seem to be
more In the psychological than in the
economic sphere" The Chicago Daily
News offers the comment: ''If the
United States and other nations desir-
Gus OF freeing trade for the benefit of
the world will liberalize their own Gus
toms laws and enter into genuine reci-
procity treaties, the medieval notions
renected in the tory agitation for self
ton" 'A "''i "0