Show national affairs written lor for the park record by 1 r lit kheiri the tariff troubles between the tee united states and france have again served to emphasize the principles on oil which national and international policies are based in the united states and europe in our own country tariffs are assessed against all nations alike they are assessed on the theory that in order to assure the american wage scale and the american standard of living goods coming coining irom from europe must be taxed to a point which will equal the difference between the cost ot of production at home and ad abroad which Is alter after all the difference in the wage scale and the standards ot of living 40 but in europe the tariff question Is approached differently as the recent action ot of france shows there tariffs tire are made not on a broad general basis but tor for bargaining purposes in an effort to got get certain commercial or political advantages from this or that nation hence one nation may be discriminated against and the other favored in the matter of land tariff all al nations are not tr ted alike it Is the old european scheme of bargaining and intriguing for national advantage playing one nation against another 41 40 W the free trade in our own w country therefore who gleefully delare declare c that prance france Is discriminating against america in favor ot of germany lc Is giving us a dose ot of our own medicine show how by their statements that th they ey do not understand the different tariff principles of the two nations As mr mes kerkay in the washington stanwell well put lt IV recently the principle ot of high or low ow tariff is not concerned in the pre stilt sent situation american exporters would have hae po basis tor for complaint lit lf france fixed a high rates ot of tariff applying to everybody fiade can adjust itself to a 1194 auty uty but not liol to unfair I 1 campeti com peti tion A nation iskat libertito liber tylo fix BK as high a duty as she fihe pleases on imports import 4 and america would be abe in t the h e 1 world to j complain against la is b alga 1 the an n this case isi aidt america has been discriminated aga against Alist and virtually shut out ot of a market which at t the same time Is left open to competitor p et aitor nations france has fixed rates on an tile the same commodities foar higher for american made products than for those tb 0 be made in germany england and other countries of a favored status hiatus the right ot of a nation to fix at a high rate ot of duty is not questioned america has pr preached e ached and practiced iced that doctrine I 1 I 1 but the right ot of a 1 nation deliberately to discriminate against e a friendly power in ithe I 1 the hope ot of getting something from that power by agie cing to cease the j discrimination under the conditions I 1 while it may not be a subject of debate Is at least conducive of strong protest prote st from the nation natio which is a victim of fi the Is iduna ituna |