Show PLACING STRESS ON TARIFF Why does docs a man of the preeminence pre eminence of Secretary Secretory of Agriculture Wilson Vilson persist in such rot on the necessity of high tariff as in this statement of his made in Kenton Ohio yesterday A revision of the tariff has lost no man his job no panic has hils followed A further reduction of the tariffs gen generally generally generally would hit the working people first Europe has lower wages than the United States and would wOl d promptly take advantage of lower duties The Tho farmer would lose his cus customers customers and prices of both factory and farm goods would come down Secretary Wilson knows that the American manufacturers have undersold and can undersell the foreigners in their own markets regardless of the small difference in the scale of wages This country is exporting billions of dollars of manufactured goods every decade and could double its exportations if an organized campaign for the close study of foreign markets were inaugurated American machinery and efficiency combined with unequaled natural resources of late years has made this tills country industrially capable of m et ng the competition of the world and it is outrage outrageously outrageously outrageously belittling for men like Secretary Wilson to be constantly in indulging indulging indulging in this political buncombe of Americas inability to resist the brain and brawn of foreign lands without an artificial arbitrary barnor bar barrier barrier rier nor of huge proportions provided by law The Progressives within the Republican party recognize that the infant industries of the United States protected for half a century have grown to be lusty fellows and no longer require an excessive excessively high protective tariff in combination with the powerful assistance of the American trusts |