The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1904, Page 28

’ FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOB'ER 23, 1904. PARKE Nominee Says Thi :SOPUS, N. the Y., Oct. tariff issue, 22.—In on Judge er replied to remarks on that sub- | D088 anybody say that we have not | thinking men, | men representing six dis- delegations Which | Rosemount -to-day. | ot pleasant for an out- | gathering.- The air was g the noon hour a cold rs on behalf of the visit- were: Isaac A. Hop- } lem Club, Louis R.| f dependent clubs and Abbott for the Reform | ech replying to the ge Parker said: understand our present et (to the tariff, it is ast and see how on oc- opponents usu- r Hamilton as f the pro- never we now their & f positions. 1k of Hamiiton's re- sfactures as though it on protection. “ Even the e works, the pres- | Massachusetts, port on manufactures justify protective du- | coal, lumber, ifron and s of the Boil, 1 which our present tariff and. without which it could Take out of the tariff every- | nilton did not include in | the alliances of special | < which the tariff represents shattered into fragments, n said that his object was te such manufactures ‘as will r the United States in- THE VAuUE OF CHARCOAL Few People Knnw How Usefal Tt Is in Pre- serving Health and Beauty. everybody knows that char- the safest and most efficient ant and purifier in nature, but its value when taken into tem for the same cleans- is a remedy that the more it the better; it is not a but simply absorbs the purities always present 1 and Intestines and car- out of the system. sweetens the breath after cnrx ng or after eating ther odorous vegetables, tually clears and im- omplexion, it whitens the further acts as a natural nily safe cathartic. s the injurious gases which the stomach and bowels; it i ts the mouth and throat from poison of catarrh. .| s sell charcoal in one probably the best t for the money is ; they powdered I, and other harmiess blet form or rather in pleasant tasting log- | arcoal being mixed with finest use of these lozenges will 1l in a much improved condition general health, better complex- breath and purer blood, € beauty of it is that no possible result from their continued the gontrary, great benefit. physician in speaking of narcoal says: “I ad- arcoal Lozenges to all fr.-rmg from gas in stomach to clear the complex- fy the breath, mouth and 150 believe the liver is great- | ited by the daily use of them; | | st but twenty-five cents a box at tores, ard although in some sense patent preparation, yet I believe I more and better charcoal in Stuart’s | zenges than in any of the arcoal tablets.” CUT PR£55 i’ Dcvclopm? e and Printing,. withstanding my low prices on l' s work I do high-class Developing h get and P ing and am the leader in this class of work on the Coast. DEVELOPING Roll of 6.....10¢ | Roll ot 12....38¢ PRINTING finish. . .30-5¢ \'elox finish ..3¢c-60 USE DAYLIGHT LOADING FILMS —1 carry them in all popular sizes. Popular prices. -Are always de- None better on the market. ndable 2.00 up. CYKO PHOTO APER—Insures beautiful detall and perfect effects. ameras repaired at _moderate prices Try a Conklin Self-Filling Fountain Pen. No finzPrl Does not leak nor sweat. £3.00 u Mail orders prompflv filled. THAT MAN PITTS F. W. PITTS, The Stationer, MARKET Pifth, O N FRANCIECO™ FRENGH SAVINGS BANK | 315 Montgomery Street. Capital paid wp . . . . . $ 600,000 Uividends paid fo depositors . 1,656,226 CHAS. CARPY, President. ARTHUR LEGALLET. Wce-President. LEON BOCQUERAZ, 'Secretary. JOHN GINTY, Asst. Artigues, Chse. Carpy. Laon Kauflman. A Dr. . v E Qot Boz; Leon Bosguerat, s x. Bergerot, J. report of | does | mines and | Ported it to the house, was opposed to ASSAILS TARIFF IN SPEEGH T0 VISITING. S a | dependent of foreign nations for mili- | the Government take care of every- | tary and other essential supplies.’ reached that condition? Does any- thdv contend that the United States is still dependent on foreign nations ror military and other essential sup- plies? Have we not frequently heard the note of alarm in Europe at the Amerijcan invasion of the world's mar- kets by our manufadtured goods and especially those of iron and steel? “In this repért Hamilton gnumerated & number of manufacturing industries as already established in the United States in his time. Among ‘these were {leather, {ron and gteel, copper and | brass, tiles and pottery, wood, paper, | hats, carriages of all kinds, and most articles of personal clothing and housé- hold use. These, he says, ‘have grown ; up and flourished with a rapidity which | surprises, affording an encouraging as- | surance of succéss'—meaning success in other branches of manufactures. If these branches had grown up and flourished with surprising rapidity 113 | vears ago, what just claim of extrava- | gant government bounties can they ad- | | vance now? “Although Hamilton is - usually ited as the founder of the system, it really began before him. The first | tariff bill wds passed jn 1789. As or- iginally reported, it was a tariff for revenue only. Mr. Madison, who re- protection on’ principle, but he yielded | in some particularg to the advocates of that doctrine, so that his bil} became a | tariff for revenue, with some slight in- cidental protection, the averag® rate of duty being eight and one-half per cent ad valorem. All of our tariffs until 1816 were of this sort and the argument used to support the very moderate pro- tective features was substantially the same as that of Hamiiton already mentioned. It was coupled also with | the argument, on which Hamilton had laid great stress, that the competition of domestic manufacturers would re- duce the prices of goods and prevent anything like monopoly. He did not foresee the combinations of the present Nation's Protected Industries | Passed Beyond the “Infant™ Stage a Century Ago day, organized to do away with com- petition. TARIFF IS ADVANCED. “The war of 1812 and the embargo acts which accompanied it stopped im- portation for the time being, having the effect of ‘a prohibitory tarifft. When the war came to an end and the pro- tected classes were again subjected to the competition which they had before successfully met, they demanded more protection and they got it. The tariff was advanced to 24 1-2 per cent aver- age and then by leaps and bounds until 1827, when it reached 43 per cent. The latter has passed into history as the “History of Abominations.” It was followed by Clay’s compromise tariff of 1833, which reduced duties by a slid- ing scale, extending over a number of years, to 20 per cent. Mr. Clay was at that era, and, indeed, during his whole public life, the stand- ard bearer of the ‘American system’ of tariff protection, and I wish to Fecall some words that he dsed in & debate in the Senate in 1838, justifying his course in advocating this tariff reduc- tion. He said: “‘No one, Mr. President, in the com- mencement of the protective policy, ever supposed that it was to be per- petual. We hoped and belleved that temporary protection extended to our infant manufactures would bring them up and enable them to withstand com- petition with those of Europe. If the protective policy were entirely to cease in 1842 it would have existed twenty- six years from 1816, or -eighteen from 1824, quite as long as at either of these periods its friends supposed might be necessary.’ “Mr. Clay here voiced the prevailing opinion of the country that the pro- tected trades were no longer in a state of infancy. In fact, the infant indus- try argument was”then superseded by the pauper labor argument. It was now contended for the first time that the tariff should he used to compensate the American producer for the higher wages that he i.icd to pay, as compared with his foreign competitors. As this argument has at times done great ser- vice, although now quite threadbare, I will dwell upon it 2 moment. “Inasmuch as the law puts the tariff benefits exclusively in the hands of the capitalist and provides no means for giving the wage-worker his share, the system virtually says: * ‘Let the Government take care of the rich and the rich will take care of the poor.’ “It is a short step then to say: ‘Let ADVERTISEMENTS. DELEGATIONS 1 body,’ a doctrine abhorred of all sound- “Protection did not come to an end, ' however, in 1842. On the contrary, it! was augmented in that year from 20! per cent to 32 per cent average. The next tariff, enacted in 1846, was a re- duction to 22 per -cent—the Walker tar- | iff.. There was a further reduction in 1887, in which the protected classes themselves concurred, to a 20 per cent average. CIVIL WAR REVENUES. “At this point in our history the tariff question ceased temporarily to be an issue in American politics. It dis-' appeared so completely that when the | Republican party was formed no one thought” of reviving it ahd there is £ood reason for believing that it never : would have been revived but for the Civil War, which necessitated the rais- | ing of a.large revenue to meet the ex- traordinary demands upon the treas- | ury. Certain classes availed themselves of this opportunity to seintroduce the protective system for their own advan- tage and they were successful. The result was the Morrill tariff, or, rather, four successive installments of the Morrill lari!’I& of which Senator Sher- man, in a débate on the tariff bill of | 1872, spoke as follows: i “ ‘Ih must be remembered that the present duties, taken together, are far in excess of what they were before the war and they have been three times largely increased since the passage of the Morrill tariff act of 1861 If the present rates of duty were high enough during and since the war, when home industry was burdened with heavy in- ternal taxes, with stamp dutles, in- come taxes and high rates on raw ma- terials, then surely they are now too high when all these taxes are re- moved. “The views which Senator Sherman here expressed and which many other Republican statesmen entertained gained such ascendancy in the coun- cllg of the party that a plan for the, reviglon of the tarifts was made a distinctive feature of President Ar- ! thur’s administration. With the sanc- tion of a protectionist Congress a com- mission was appointed for this purpose in 1882, consisting, with one exception, ! of the chosen representatives of the protected industries. It spent several months taking testimony and made a report in which it summed up its| conclusion in these words: : ! “‘Barly in its deliberations the com- | misgion became convinced that a sub- stantial reduction of tariff duties is demanded, not by a mere indiscrim- inate popular clamor, but by the best conservative opinion of the countty, including that which has, in former times, heen most strenuous for the preservation of our national indus- trial defenses. Such a reduction of | the existing tariff the commission re- | gards not only as a due recogrition of public sentiment and & measure of justice to consumers, but one con- ducive to the general industrial pros- perity, and which, although it may be temporarily inconvenient, will be legitimately beneficial to the special i®terests affected by such reduction.’ COMMISSION’S BILL Ad “The commission also reported a bill which, it said, would make an average reduction of 20 to 25 per cent in the rates of duty. The protected Interests, which had previously given their con- sent and support to the commission, now suddenly changed front. They went to Washington, killed the com- mission bill and caused Congress to pass another in its place. It was framed in a conference committee™ that is, in secret. It wasmnever con- sidered in detail in either house of Congress. It was passed in one lump. “Instead of reducing duties from 20 to 30 per cent, as the commission had recommended, this bill increased the average rate of dutiable goods from 41.55 ‘per cent to 45.86 per cent. “This was the tariff of - 1883. Not- withstanding the betrayal of public | interests which it involved and the | clandestine manner of its enactment, this tarlff was more moderate than the | subsequent McKinley tariff of 1890 or the Dingley tariff now in force. The | average rate of the former, as shown by the importations of 1892, was 48.71 per cent on dutiable goods. The duti- | able importations of the last fltoa.l‘ year, ending June 30, 1904, were $536,- 940,600, and the duties collected = were $280,904,119, which is an average rate of 53 per cent. “To this condition we have come at last. Befummg with a tariff of 81 per cent 1789, when many of our in- cuu 5% Danderme NOW on sale atall DANDERINE TSR SR mmum.,wmm _ment to do so, == W 7] e \\- oun s:co ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Hamilton said that the iron and steel industry was already-in a flourishing condition in his time. He was willing, nevertheless, to give 7% per cent of | protection to steel. It now has $7 per ton on steel rails, and the ‘steel pool’ sells’ them to Canadians. at $19 per ton, but éxacts $28 from American purchasers. It is enabled by the tar- iff to do this, for without the tariff it would be obliged to sell rails at home for the price:at which they could be imported. American railways are thus compelled . to pay $7 84 per ton more than a fair price—that is, $7 84 more ‘tnm the price at which somebody else ould supply them. “Why ‘do the railways submit to such extortion? Why do they remain quiet? Why, do ‘they not establish roll- ing mill§ and make their own rails? Surely the difference of $7 84 per ton, or 40 per cent, i8 ‘& sufficient induce- I cannot answer. this question, but'if the leaders of the steel rail industry are also the controllers of those railways which are strong enough to defend themlelvu against extortion, the mystery is ex'phlned. In such a case the profits go into the pockets of ‘the controllers of the railways in their ‘capacity .of steel producers, while the ther shareholders of the railways and mnnew public my the difference, tariff -iends itself to this sort of ' grab_game and if the men who com- mmii large capital do not avail them= | selyes of their opportunity they are mot go. ghrewd as they are generally sup- Doilfl to be. OBJECTS TO UNJUST LAWS. “I cherish no grudges against men ‘because they are rich, nor do I greatly blame them for taking the profits which unjust laws throw in their way, but I protest against the unjust laws. I pto-; give are large | test against the men who make them nopheleuu and who ‘stand pat’ whenever mbody mpntnnpmormdflrthm “What happened under the low tar- mammmr hmz unmmmt On the contrary, Senator Morriil of Vermont, the father of the Morrill tariffs of the war period, said in a public debate that the year 1860, which fell within this period, was ‘one of the most prosper- ous in our history.’ This is also the testimony of Professor Taussig in his tariff history of the Unitéd States, not alone as to the year 1860, but as to that period generally. The same authority tells us that our cotton spinning in- dustry never, grew more rapidly or | prospered more than under the Walker tariff of 1846. CALIFORNIA BORAX. “A few years ago a large deposit of borax was found in California. The owners of it forthwith advertised that they could producé borax at such low rates as to undersell the world, which was a fact. They went to Washing- ton and expressly on the ground of their ability to undersell foreigners they got a duty of 5 cents per pound on borax. They then began to sell borax in England at rates far below Anvmz’nsmms. BAD BLOOD ALhed troutle & 'l teh e was cavered with B LT A i Could 1 R pieay Ly E‘i‘n“;‘.:.‘ Ave., hn;’on oity. N. ¥ Best For = m;‘,.,,,, remove. 1 "%éfi'fii .mul— Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 6o muu.m .interest of the whole people. And it what they charged to American pur- chasers and are doing so now. ““Well, what of it,’ our opponénts may ask. An answer is supplied by the tariff commission of 1883, whose words I have quoted. They sald that a re- duction of duties was due as ‘a measure of justice to consumers.” “A duty which does not raise the price of the article to the consumer fails of its object and is, therefore, needless for purposes of protection. *If |, it does artificially raise the price, then the consumer pays the difference, which, as Hamilton said, is the same thing as a bounty to the producer. These bounties are piling up mountain high. They are pald by the people. INCREASED COST OF LIVING. “It is true, as all know, that all ex- cessive tariff rates have caused serious injury to the great body of the people. It has increased the cost of living and added to the price of nearly everything that the people must buy. This is known to all men and they cry out against it. And’ their cry should ~ be heeded. But it has been so long a part of ‘the policy of the country that its reformation must be prudently under- | taken, so as to prevent an immediate revolution in existing conditions. “The Democratie platform points outl the true method when it demands ‘a| revision and a gradual reduction of the | tariff by the.friends of the masses and | for the common weal and nof by the friepds of its abuses, its extortions and discriminations.’ “I pointed out in'my response to the notification committee how a gradual reduction of the customs duties may be| accomplished without distarbing busi- ! ness conditions and I adhere to the! methods suggested. But the work} should be undertaken at once in the can only be undertaken by the Demo- cratic party. The Republican party | will not attempt it.. It-only such a revision as the friends of\ the tariff wish. As they do not wish any ' revision downward, there will be none in that direction while that party can prevent it. Any other revision will not relieve the masses. And it'is to their relief that Congress and the President should hasten.” ——————— Have You Visited The new store of Rathjen Company, 139 Mason street? Choicest groceries and wines at lowest prices. Prompt service. Phons South 893. ADVERTISEMENTS. True Art "Is Not Measured by | DOLLARS and CENTS — WE HAVE JEWEL- RY AT LOW PRICES WHICH IS QUITE AS WELL, DESIGN- ED AS THE MORE COSTLY PIECES Bohm-Bristol Co. Jewelers and Scrofula Muitsprmtnown < mmhlhmk, eutln.out eruptions, in- sore ears, elcrhadwaflgdism. Hood’s