Show 1 t td a President Wilson W ls Base World orld Peace Pace I Ili s sd d Does Dogs r s e ey t re e s on on d I Free Trade Kitchin Says Not and T Tells Why hyl li- li 4 Washington Fet Feb 9 Did Did President in his program of or pence peace outI outlined out- out lined recently in hl his address to Congress Con- Con I gress set down free trade as IS a basis for world peace pence wh when n he said t L The removal remo so o far as pO possible libl of ot ofell r fill ell ll economic barriers and the tho e establishment tab tab- s Jl of or an equality of or trade among nIl the nations consenting to tho peace d associating themselves for its L LJ n maintenance Any number of ot congressmen n tle o Ile c did All Alt of the free trade ad advocates te oca III believe l he dl did i. i Claude Kitchin believes ir e did not Kitchin Democratic leader In the House and chairman of ot F the tho ways Wn'S and means committee whore their origin have z revenue re measures 11 suggestion of the slightest u 1 finds not free tree trade In Wilson's Wilsons words I 1 have read the clause clauso over and andover andover over and I attended every delivered said Kitchin I when it was nas as he meant free I It It is Is' impossible that a 1 trade or an any other narrow specific Ii to restrict an any nation I In n Its Us own fiscal policy polle Ho did not mean that these nations consenting t to o maintain it ft should hamper themselves them them- selves helves in attempts to interfere w with ith Wr each ach other at all in matters o of ini in- in i laws or financial systems to say pay to each other an anything about high tariff or low tariff or free rree trade trado s See Only Oll Open en Door I do not understand him to mean menn that thero there shall bo no favoritism another In the shown shon-n by br one ono nation to matter of ports that there shall be no noI discriminating no economic t I boycotting of ot an any nation by an any other ration nation I understand him to mean I II I i r l fi t J J j u SK R rr Ir a Nr EW REP HEr CLAUDE equal rights for all nations on the theseas theseas seas and tho the open door everywhere to all comers in tho tiro trade of tho the world He could not have havo meant anything cl else h But Dut that is a n far cr cry from free tree trade as the universal economic policy C of the world re regardless ardless of or the of ot tho the several countries concerned If the United States or any oth other r country chooses to have a a tariff which is the same same for all other nations such a Do tariff Is not nn an economic within the tho meaning of the tho words of or the President Neither would a reciprocity agreement bet yeen au any two nations bo lIo such a barrier provided pro each one of them would make the tho same s reciprocal ar arrangement arrangement ar- ar with an any or all other nations na nn- nations who asked for it Otherwise of or course reciprocity would bo ho rn an economic barrier barller not conducive to peaceful ful relations among all the na na- na I do elo not see how ho the tho world can go 10 beyond bond tho the for all equal treatment treatment treat treat- ment b by the nations of each other without interference In domestic policies pol poi Idles in lt Its great and necessary work wort of or tearing down economic barriers rs that malco make for for nr first trade war and th then n as a n cons consequence quence political and military war ar Take Tale for example the caso case of 0 the United Unite States Zloty How could tho the President President Pres Pres- ident and the Senate with their treaty treaty- making power po which the House does I not share make malce free froe roe trade treaties with other nations without abridging the constitutional right and dut duty of I the Congress to levy looy imposts imposts' Thero is not the slightest thou thought ht of or tariff changing chang legislation at tho the present time In Congress on either side Kitchin 1 believes He lIe says the theUn Un Underwood erwood law has served u us well In peace and Is serving us IS as well In war as an any tariff could The Tho Underwood law with Its income tax provision which went Vent into effect on October 3 3 t 1913 yielded us several millions m moro more I o of r revenue between that date dat and the beginning I of or tho the war In to August 1914 than the layn Aldrich Aldrich act act with its t corporation income ta tax tar provision had I yielded In the same length of or time From tho the bc beginning of or the tho war in 1914 1911 until wo io entered the contest last April our tariff law still sUll served In In spite orthe of or the decline In Imports m told d now that we arc in the war ourselves the UnderWood Underwood Under Under- wood act still serves the country county ASWEll aswell as aswell well WE'll a as nn any any- tariff measure could ac according according ac- ac cording to I Kitchin The tariff I it bound to come back bael after tho the war as one of the LI Issues Isue eald Bald Kitchin It Il is not not permanently out of or politics I doubt if it ever will willbe willbe be he for there is no subject more fruitful fruitful fruitful fruit fruit- ful of or discussion and difference of opinion among amon human beings s than tho the question o of ho how best to raise revenue But the Industry of tho the United States will be n II less need of high protective tariff nHo the war than ever e before no tariff high or low Democratic or Republican will he be able to produce more mOle than u lJ fifth of what wo we shall need to run the government economic 11 illy Wo We A will never foyer go o back to to our out war pre conditions Economically Economical Economical- 11 l ly we the vIll will be In the strongest position among the tho nations in the world Our industries will not have hac been InterI Interrupted interrupted inter Inter- I yr or destroyed ed by tho the war and our man power lower available for labor will not ha have teen Leon seriously impaired Wo w o 90 shall simply go 0 on with what we wo haY have c but developed lle on a Do much greater reater scale and plus the tho new ne' enterprises enterprises enter enter- t that at arc are coming to us while many other countries have got ot to go JO through h a long period of repair and reconstruction |