Show SEE SEEN N an and d NO HEAR EAK aground tie lom NATIONAL CAPITAL by carter field FAMOUS washington correspondent washington to observe strict neutrality i but not to benefit by it Is the rather paradoxical attitude in the he united states department of commerce this applies not only to trade with italy trade with ethiopia was never Import important int but to trade in other parts of the world the thought apparently Is not to take too much advantage of italis occupation with her war by sneaking away a part of her interra international tradel trade the whole thing thin seems rather wb ulous though also very high minded but apparently it does not apply to south america perhaps because washington has always regarded southern american trade as belonging to this country not by divine right nor even by geography but perhaps because of some expected gratitude tor for the monroe doctrine though as a matter of fact that doctrine lias has been resented rather than app appreciated recia ted by our latin american friends for many years now in fact it began to COO cool shortly after washington forced france to withdraw its support from maximilian not long after tile the american civil war so go the best minds interested lu in furthering our international trade began several weeks ago to think about the possibilities in south america now that italy Is very busy in africa in fact it was decided to have n R new dew hend head of the bureau of foreign and domestic bestic commerce and that this new head should be some one capable of taking advantage of this golden opportunity in south sout america As this is written the name of this new ev sales manager for uncle sant sam has not been announced but it has already been discovered by our consuls from panama down to cape horn that great britain apparently had the hie same idea whether it occurred to the best minds in downing street before our brain Tr tasters usters thought of it or wb whether ether having thought or of it the british merely went into action without ii waiting alting for a lot of conferences and on the selection of it a suitable person to direct it Is not only not dot disclosed it is not known but the fact Is sadly admitted in whispers that the british heat beat us to it and the comment Is sadly added as usual not cricket it is rather interesting that the oell clil who disclosed this situation to the writer in discussing what lie he thought this country ought to do in f observing the amenities long iong before he mentioned the I 1 british rill sh said that to expand our trade all oer the life world at the expense of the italian international trade would not be cricket which wilh happens to be a dist distinctly british expression though widely used here just iby why it would not be crl cricket eket to take advantage of italis preoccupation in some parts of the world and not in others Is not clear in the department part ment of commerce there Is a certain theory about it this Is to the general effect that latin american trade belongs naturally to tile united states and that therefore anything we can do to cement it Is justifiable jus tillable at all times whether the nations from which we take it are engaged in a war or not and whether we approve ol of that war or not it may le be that in london the exporters and the government figure the same way on tile the theory that on account of sir francis drake or maybe sir henry glenry morgan latin american trade naturally belongs to bri tain and hence any means of taking it away aay front from some other nation Is justified there Is a widespread suspicion however that cricket floes not interfere with britaina Brit ains commandeering all of italis foreign trade that she can get her ter hands on even durin during g tile the world war some st state lite department underlings underling der lings a recall business as usual which means get all you can was quite a motto lo in the tight little island canadian treaty on the whole hole the administration expects to benefit enormously at the next election by the effects of the Cn nadian reciprocity treaty its political rami ficat fixations ions are legion but no now w that time little hns has been allowed for esti estimating estimation matin its eco economic nolle coll consequences seq bences lets take a look at the political aspects aspect I which were very much in mind at tile lip white house if not at the hie state department while lle the problems were being weighed the alie worst liability to the administration Is 1 the dairy section which will let a much larger volume of canadian milk cream bottere tin and cheese into this country and hence will irritate the dairy farmers of new Un Ing angland gland lind new york WIs wisconsin and minnesota particularly and all other oilier dairy farmers in n general incidentally it was rather odd that there was such a rush to sign the treaty that the ceremonies almost with those attendant upon the hie delivery nt at tile white house of the 1 pound wisconsin cheese drawn by under and blitzen Blit zon and the hie rest in a santa kama clans sleigh which by the way had been intended as a ill high ii light of national cheese weilt the dairy concessions to canada are much worse polli leally than iliin the lumber section although h actually opec ni nants ants ct of the innizer were more v vocal cal tile reason Is eliat every do bestic dairyman Is on the same side of the datry dairy controversy ile he wants all tile the protection he be can get iron from foreign competition whereas the lumber am industry Is into two groups with best opinion being to the effect that the stronger group as far as votes are concerned favors abolishing all restrictions against canadian lumber and shingles perhaps the best evidence Is that the group favoring no tariff on lumberson lumb lumber erwon won every fight in congress until the very last then the tariff group won but only by combining with the oil copper and coal groups in a log rolling operation which resulted in the imposition of the so called excise import taxes that really are tariff schedules lumber tariff actually the interests favoring a higher tariff against canadian lumber are not politically important save in the extreme pacific northwest midwestern lumber interests which might be supposed to be allied actually are not for the simple reason that in the days before they thought there would eer bo be a lumber tariff they bought huge tracts of forest land in canada I 1 lumber one among the assets of the treaty politically Is fruit canadas willingness to take our oranges prunes apricots peaches pea clies and ral raisins sills just makes the difference between good times and bad in highly important areas in california incidentally the orange schedule appeases florida overcoming it Is hoped her anger against tile the administration for the cuban reciprocity treaty chich let in early fruits and vegetables that com pete with floridian products florida of course Is not important politically not certainly cena when a i presidential identical ident ial lal election Is being considered but never dever forget california I 1 not because she elected woodrow wilson in 1016 but because her 22 electoral votes are absolutely essential to any G 0 P hope so far outlined of ending the new deal and retiring franklin D roosevelt from the white house not even henry 11 pletcher can count enough electoral votes to put a republican in the white house while AAA checks keep flow lowing ing wl without thou t california figuring on lodge massachusetts democrats are figuring that henry cabot lodge grandson of the famous statesman who broke the heart of tile lie world in ills his fight against woodrow wilson on tile the league of nations will be the 0 0 P candidate cand idale for senator next year they are so sure of this that they are a already shaping individual political plans to fit in nath that picture incidentally they are not particularly happy about this situation despite ills his youth they are not discounting young lodges ability ns as a vote getter on the contrary they point out that lie lias has all the alie advantages of a great mime and none of tile the liabilities the famous massachusetts senator as a matter of fact had accumulated a lot of enemies before his death in his last race for the senate lie he barely pulled tb rough at ills last national republican convention that at cleveland far from being the dominating figure lie he had been D at t such gatherings for nearly a generation lie was rather obviously sidetracked in fact that sidetracking led to animosities which rose to plague william M butler at the time republican national chairman and representative on the ground of president ilent coolidge when butler later ran for the senate against david 1 I walsh none of these old feuds are believed to ling cpr on however by 1 daino P ill q c bats interested in holding a sen alte seat and some of them in a inning that seat scat for Ibern cs they do not expect y young oung lodge to lose any republican votes on account of them democratic fears moreover massachusetts has eight republican members of the house more than any other state ut at present ex except capt michigan new jersey new york and pennsylvania arid and more than such historically republican states as california illinois and ohio so their fear Is that with evidences aces 61 such left as the rhode island election and that massachusetts lias has backslidden back on the new deal oung boung lodge with nothing against him may poll the full re ile pub publican liLan vote the tremendous majority ot of GOV GOT james M curacy in n 11 1931 does not reassure them thy they point to the fact that curley was strong enough to nominate its ills own candidate for in mayor a of worcester over the silling mayor but then the republicans won the office on No november ember 5 all of might point to the logic that the massachusetts democrats would be glad to let senator marcus A coolidge have a especially pec ally lally ns they could count ou on him to contribute handsomely to a campaign fund might pull other carldel dates through w whether hether it saved jilin him or not but human ambitious ambitions run contrary to that notion ever since jt it became fairly certain that curley would seek and reelection election re as governor passing vp up the chance to come to the lie united states senate there have been lightning DID rods put pill up by other democrats copyright service |