| Show PARTISAN ATTACK miss ida M tarbell who is widely known by reason of her articles on the history bof the standard oil company has begun a series of articles in the american magazine on the tariff in our times the first article appeared in the december number of tho magazine and one is afforded an op to judge of what the character of her discussion Is to be it Is quite evident that she starts into the work say the st joseph gazette in a frame of mind in violent opposition to the principle of protea ton and that unless she modifies her future articles materially her work is to prove a failure since it can be looked upon in no other light than as a partisan attack upon the tariff system miss tarbell asselta that the original view of the held by our loading projectionists protectionists was that it was merely a temporary expedient ent intended first to enable infant industries to establish themselves and second aea me deanto anto ral sethe necessary revenue to pay the operating expenses of the government during the war period in her first article miss tarbell admits that the country was exceedingly prosperous alie operations of the tariff of and declares that hard times followed the determination to lower the schedules she furthermore ther more the bagh prices of war times to the tariff laws then in vogue a statement that is easily disproved by the facts of history nor is she any more exact or liberal hi her estimates of men who were active supporter of the protection principle during the days of the war and prior y the ref cW |
