AMERICAN POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1216, 26 August 1911, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS.

MORE TARIFF BATTLES. By Tclcgr,iDh-rrc.-5 Association-Copyright Washinpton, August 21. The parties in the American Congress havo already mapped out their proBTiUiunc for the coming winter session. Tariff revision on a greater scalo than ever will be tho battle-cry of the Democrats, but it is not expected that the insurgent Republicans will afford their opponents tho samo support as iu tho session just ended. If so, it is believed that the Democratic tariff revision will again be a failure, without even the uso of tho Presidential veto. SELF-SACRIFICING MERCHANTS, A TELLING TARIFF SPEECH. Tho American House of Representatives says tho "World's Work," has seldom Heard a more irresistible speech than tho one in which tho other dnv Mr. Rodfield ot j,ew- \ork demolished the claims of tho high protectionists with tho cold facts of his eighteen years' experience in selling American goods abroad cheaper than thoy were sold at home:— "-Mr. Charman: In tho year IMS there appeared certain sacred words, familiar to this House, which at tire beginning of what I lmvo to say I desire, to read as tho text of my remarks. These words are:— /"In nil tariff legislation tho truo principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal tho difference between the cost of production at homo and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries—'

—"being tho tariff statement fro tho Republican platform of 190 S. It is a great pity, Mr. Chairman, that these words were printed only in the English language. It is a greity pity they were not translated ir'o Japanese", that they might adorn tho cabs of tho 720 American locomotives on tho Japanese railways for the benefit of tho Japanese engine-driv-ers. It is a great pity they were not translated into Chincso, that those in Manchuria who aro wearing American cottons might know how self-sacrificing the makers were in selling them to them. It is a great pity they were not translated into Javanese, that the machinery my own house has sent to tho Dutch East Indies might tell to the Malays there how beneficent a factor we have been to them. It is a great pity they were not translated into Hindu, that the stokers of tho Calcutta electric light works might know how generous was the American firm that sold them their forced-draft plant. "It is a great pity they were not published in Melbourne, that my acquaintance, there, who bought halt a million dollars' worth of American hardwaTO between New York and San Francisco for sale in Australia, might know how kind those American manufacturers were to him. It is a great pity they aro not printed in Dntch •or German, that my former customers in Antwerp and in Berlin and Dusscldorf might know my generosity. It .is a ead thing that those words should not be sent widely abroad, that the unselfishness -and kindness of our American manufacturers to those outside the limits of our own country might be made more clear than it now is. Bocause, Mr. Chairman, thoso men abroad, many of whom I know, have an idea that the American manufacturers were selling them thoso goods because they could afford to do so, and I must confess that until I saw the'language of this platform I had myself supposed it was quite possible and proper to sell to those countries abroad at a reasonable profit.