Show THE MEAT TARIFF The Present Congress Could Should Revise and The people last for lower tariff It was hoped by the progressive elements of both parties that President Taft would heed this great mandate and proceed at once to do something about But he advises further till the tariff board gets ready to But no report is- necessary as to the meat at will not present do something to curb the exactions of meat without postponing all action till next December a year hence the newly elected congress will if the conservatives can have their Yet it is plain that there is a good deal of disappointment throughout country there wasn't in President otherwise excellent a single reference to present cost there been a few words on this with a. in simple that meats be on the does anybody suppose that the beef trust would have advanced prices protest the polls in November was understood the prices went So also was the silence at the White House in December and meat prices went Secretary Wilson- followed the president silence as to the of living but with a multiplicity of words that can and him the of living a grievance against the and it be protected to his eyebrows- by a plutocratic Secretary Wilson does not notice Strangely in legislative department the insurgent republicans appear to have agreed to attack only the wool schedule of the Of this Senator Aldrich said on May is the very citadel of the protective To reduce that is to destroy the whole Taft showed in his speeches why wool tariff It is supported in agreement by western of the herders and by eastern representatives of the Both interests are and both are The New York World believes that there is time enough this session to put progressives of both parties to the test on this We have had a great deal of We have had many Republicans and democrats are on record Will they give the relief in the price of food an obvious and simple remedy for monopolistic oppression or will they address the galleries as in the case of secretary who is- pursuing the or as is now true of the so-called are attempting the James J. Hill of the same He even in absolute free trade between the United States and Canada and makes a sweeping denunciation of the tariff in general when to food said make the status of industry of these two countries greatly different from that the No matter what embargoes may be upon movement of capital and labor are Their mobility neutralizes protective duties between two countries situated as are workingman who should find that he was in either country a wage substantially less than was being paid in the other for the same employment could walk across the boundary and take advantage of the higher 1 There is no tariff on Neither is there any on money or convincing and unanswerable argument for reciprocity has always been and ever must be the experience of the United States The only argument against it were employed with passionate earnestness a century and a quarter ago to prove that what are now the States of Union could not prosper unless they were protected against one the last fiscal year we exported in round numbers worth of food-stuffs and food animals and imported can be more absurd under such circumstances than to maintain a duty of 6 cents per pound on butter and 5 cents per dozen on eggs and 25 cents a bushel on This is not it is mere punishment of the consumer to perpetuate an industrial condition that is as dead as The people of Canada have as much to gain as They must not be treated as suppliants but as Their interests are relatively as great as never was a situation so favorable to agreement as the If we are to levy only such imports as will equalize cost of production here and elsewhere and that is now the universal slogan then there would be free trade between the United States and Canada These are the clear words of one of our greatest financiers one of the clearest headed brainiest men of the world Why cannot all people see the simple fact as he so lucidly explains |