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Show j Wall Street and the Tariff IT WILL be surprising- to miny to find the voice of Wall street raised In favor of lower tariff duties. But the current issue of the Magazine of Wall Street presents an editorial edi-torial which Is as sharply critical of the pending tariff bill as anything that Senator Moses' "sons of wild jackasses" have ever said. ' The editorial begins by asserting that a policy of protection was needed by this country coun-try throughout the early part of its existence; but it adds that times have changed so that protection is not the boon it once was. "We have had free trade on a continental scale, despite the tariff barrier at the boundaries," boun-daries," says the magazine. "Now we require, re-quire, not free trade, but greater freedom of trade abroad. The policy that was good for 100 years will be a handicap in the future. "The new tariff law will be recorded later as an act of follyobstructive to foreign for-eign trade and contrary to manifest destiny." |