Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-14 | Page 4 | Germans Approve Tariff Retaliation

Germans Approve Tariff Retaliation Insists United States Will Be at Fault If War Results From New Law. BERLIN". May 13 The dlecusslon of Gorman-Amerlean tariff relations since It became certain the Government would not grant the most favored nation treatment treat-ment to the United States under tho new tariff law shows that the Government s policy Is stronglv t-ndorsed by the i"?er-man i"?er-man people Xo political party and no newspaper has lnlted a continuance of the lasting etatus of trade with Anier-lea Anier-lea Most of the moderate, organs of public opinion Intdst that the policy of former Chancellor Von Caprivl of laying upon American goods tho same duties as on the goods of treaty countries which se-re.l se-re.l n-durtions only by making corresponding corre-sponding reductions OU their Imports from Germany could under no circumstances circum-stances be continued. United States Buys Little- AJbng with SUCh discussions there Is complaint at the fact that the United States buys only about half as DVUCh SB inany buys from the United Btatea This la attributed to the high duties of the American tariff, and It Is asked that the T.'nlted Btatea reduce Its duty to something nearer the Qennan level Whether Germany's new policy towards to-wards the 1 Dlted States will lead to a tariff war is a question dlscuseed In the German press with varying viOWB, according ac-cording as the writers are supporters of the Government or In opposition to It Bone of the opponents of the now tariff law condemn It as likely to lead to a tariff war with the Tnlted States, and the langer of such a result Is widely recognized and tho desire to avoid euch an economic war is general and even Intense. Don't Want a Tariff With Us. Tho agrarians, to whom a stiff bellicose belli-cose purpose Is attributed, protest that thev do not want a tariff with tho Vnitcd States. It Is Insisted here thHt If a t:irlff war follows the fault will not be Germany's, since the German Government Govern-ment eiands ready to make ;i reciprocity treaty with tho Tnlted Statop.