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MUSIC TRADE
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the minds of multitudes. It matters not that certain commodities
have advanced while the tariff on them was reduced last year.
This is a country in which currency and economic questions, like
questions of human rights, must be settled by majorities. Sus-
tained or advancing high prices are the admitted fact in the case.
If the people should be partly or wholly wrong in their diagnosis
of the cause and in their choice of a remedy, there is no appeal
except to the same majority after it has been instructed, it may
be by sad experience.
J. B. SPILLANE, Managing Editor
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NEW YORK,
JULY 9, 1910
EDITORIAL
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REVIEW
HE conflicting trade currents of 1910 bring new perplexities
when wage advances ure attended with rising commodity
prices.
As the political side of every development affecting' the cost
of living has been made prominent in recent months it may now be
expected that the bearing of the prices of cereals and certain manu-
factured products are the issues that will be before the country next
fall and will have widespread attention.
The state of the public mind has been such that the tariff
act of 1909 has been made the scape goat for many of the evils
of which complaint has been loud.
Business, as every man knows in the piano trade or out of it,
has not been nearly up to the expectations of many.
Now, there are all kinds of theories regarding the cause, but,
without doubt, the political affairs of the country have a direct
bearing upon business.
Events have been known to settle political hubbub in a way
that has disconcerted politicians and so-called economists. For
example, the good crops of 1896, which were the beginning of an
era of prosperity for Western farmers, were a great factor in the
defeat of free silver in that year. The misfortunes that came upon
thousands of our people in the panic of 1893, and the few years
following, made them ready to support any policy seductively pre-
sented as a cure for their ills. From hundreds of platforms the
West was told that silver demonetization was responsible for its
misfortunes; that the farmer was a man without a future, and that
dollar wheat would never come again. The crop of 1896 was a
better antidote to that kind of propaganda than all that was said
or written to refute it.
And now, whatever the relation of the tariff to certain com-
modity prices in the United States, it is perfectly evident that the
din of agitation over high prices in the year following the passing
of a new tariff act has connected the latter with the high prices in
HIS country seems to have outgrown the old method of tariff
revision by trading and bickering among Congressmen.
It needs more intelligent and constant action—greater consid-
eration of national interests.
We do not believe that Congress, unassisted by experts, is
competent to follow a straight and defensible course.
There must be a special agency devoted to the country as a
whole to focus information and to make recommendations that will
authoritatively supply issues over which Congressmen eternally
wrangle.
This implies no abatement from protection, but it will take
the tariff out of politics.
The National Tariff Commission Association, which is com-
posed of manufacturers and those connected with other interests, is
most anxious to sec the tariff lifted bodily from the political battle-
ground.
Members of the Association believe it can be done.
The average business man believes that the uncertainty of the
tariff situation has a depressing effect upon trade.
In fact, there are plenty of business men in this country to-day,
including bankers, manufacturers and merchants, who believe that
business is suffering at the present time by reason of tariff un-
certainty.
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EW YORK does not desire a World's Fair.
In other words, that is the opinion of the majority of
Mayor Ciaynor"s Committee, appointed to consider this matter.
Therefore, the project for holding the World's Fair in this
city in 1913 is abandoned.
We do not know that anyone will regret it.
This city docs not feel the need of an advertisement.
Its local pride runs in other directions.
It has always been chilly towards the exposition proposition.
O
N account of the vast amount of technical literature put forth
by this trade newspaper institution it has won an authorita-
tive position, and we desire to emphasize the fact that the Player
Department of The Review is to be maintained on a broader basis
than ever before.
The Review Technical Department is in charge of an expert
who devotes his entire time to technical matters connected with this
institution. Therefore, if there are any questions which readers of
The Review desire to have answered all' that is necessary is to
present them to this publication.
We have now completed another work-upon the player-piano
which will be announced shortly.
T
H E vacation season is well advanced, and naturally business in
the music trade line is feeling the effects of withdrawn
energies and the inactivity of the purchasing masses generally.
Trade, however, in some sections his kept up surprisingly well.
A good many dealers have enjoyed a summer renting season
of satisfactory proportions, and the summer as a whole does not
show decreased business activity more than is noticeable during
the heated term any season.
I
OW prices may get people into the store once, but it requires
more than that to bring them back again and again.
There must be quality to the goods and courtesy from the
salesmen.
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F some men knew half as much as they think they know they
would not have such an exalted opinion of themselves.
MARTYR is a man who lives up to his wife's expectations
of him.