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Show I TWO WAYS TO DO IT S THE PROPOSED FOREIGN CURE jW 1 " -port TRUST EVILS, K Tariff Reduction Would Make Our jH Country Dumping Ground for the H 8urplui Production of Cheap Labor H In Other Countries. M A common chargo against tho 'M "truata" la that thoy dellbo.-ately M dump their surplus products upon fop fl elgn countries at any price attainable m -while keeping up prices at home. That is probably true of tho trusts, for It Is true of every manufacturing concern, !a big or little, which ever produced a M surplus In this or any country. It Is ijR true of our farmers who securo from (! all railroad companies lowor freights ! on grain and meat destined for export than on that to bo consumed at home, with the avowed Intent to dump our j surplus on other countries. Whero no ' tariff exists freight rates are made to i answer tho purpose. Tho Pacific ,; coast Is and always has been a dump ing ground for overy manufacturer In Amorlca. A St. Louis manufacturer, U If ho has a surplus, will sell It to bo i shipped to this coast, or for export, cheaper than ho would sell It Into tho territory on which ho relies for his main support. So we may assume that the trusts, In this respect, adhere to tho practice which has obtained In all countries since International trade existed or any other trade, for that A matter. Tho main object of produc- m lng a surplus Is to keep labor cm- ployed during periods of depression. In this employers aro tnlluenced partly part-ly by tho dcslro to kcop a trained forco together and to keep their machinery going, and nlso, very largely by feelings feel-ings of humanity. At any rate, the production of surpluses In America docs glvo employment to a vast number of Americans who would othcrwlso be Idle. All nations compete com-pete with each other In tho disposal of surpluses nearly always at less than homo rates. It Is not In any sonso peculiar to tho "trusts." Now thcro aro two ways of dealing ' with surpluses entering from foreign f,5- countries. One way Is to oncourage ' thorn to como In, which speedily shuts up tho homo Industries and tho smaller first of all because no Industry Indus-try can compcto with goods sold nt ' cost or less, and nearly all Interna- - tlonal trado has como to bo In sur- W pluses. That Is tho method which I - free trado Democrats dcslro us to . j adopt, and they aro seoklng to direct ji tho popular projudlco against trusts, it? ' against a trado practlco which existed ai beforo trusts wore heard of and will j( contlnuo to exist after they aro under h control, and would exist Just the samo i If thoy wero blotted out of existence. 'jj Tho other way Is that proposed by German statesmen, and likely to be (r adopted by all Europe to keep sur pluses out by a stiff tariff. That, In J the case of sugar, was proposed by tho J . Brussels sugar conference. It Is like- if -, !y to be applied to all products. Just jf i" now tho American coppor trust has a I surplus which it Is dumping on any I t foreign market which will recolvo It. 1 ' Dut German statesmen won't havo It. Although Germany produces but about one-third the coppor which sho uses, ' nor puoplo aro dotermlned that Ger man mines shall not bo closod down by American coppor sold In those markets mar-kets at less than cost of production. . A commltteo of tho Reichstag has ac cordingly proposed a duty on raw copper, cop-per, which will apparently bo adoptod. 1 Gormany thinks It moro profitable to J kcop her own peoplo employed than to buy cheap American coppor at tho cost of tho Idlonoss of a portion. of her own people. It Is to our Interest that sho should do so. If our trust surpluses sur-pluses aro kept out of foreign countries coun-tries they must bo sold at homo, which ,i will roduco tho price of all coppor In this country. Tho Republican policy i is llko that of Gormany protect our Industries trusts and all against tho Influx of tho surpluses of foreign trusts sold hora at loss than cost. The Domocratlc policy Is to invito these surpluses and closo down our own works. It Is for tho American peoplo to chooso botweon them. San Francisco Fran-cisco Cbronlclo. |