PROTEST FROM BRITISH DOMINIONS.
The new tariff Bill has elicited excited remonstrances from Canadian interests which feel particularly offended by the proposed increase in the duty on lumber. This increase would touch closely the "pocket book" of newspapers which use so much newsprint made by Canadian wood pulp. The Australian Government has also filed with the State Department a memorandum containing a note of warning that further increases in tariffs would divert Australian trade to Great Britain and other countries. Indeed, there is articulate fear of a retaliation by foreign countries if the new Bill should become law. The whole situation indicates that the bene- ficiaries of the Protective principle have overreached them- selves and that there is very grave danger of a: serious reaction against the whole movement. It may be that if the debenture scheme fails to pass the two Houses as part of the Farm Relief Bill, it would be incorporated in the Tariff Bill and force the President to veto the whole measure. These excesses in the whole situation have caused the New York Times to eomment ironically under a heading which borrows the title of Frederick Lonsdale's well-known play Aren't We AU? apon the American frame of mind which produces such a Bill.
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