Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Will the Mistake be Rectitied? [ARTICLE]

Will the Mistake be Rectitied?

“If a mistake has been made,” says the New York Sun of Mr. Gage’s Russian sugar decision, “then the mistake cannot be rectified too speedily or too frankly, and no pride of Individual opinion should be suffered to stand In the way of such rectification." That a mistake was made there would seem no doubt. Our own Internal revenue and legal experts told Mr. Gage plainly that Russia did no more in remitting her internal taxes upon exported sugar than we do in re-

mltting our Internal taxes upon exported spirits and tobaccos, Yet Mr. Gage persisted In his course. That Is action has greatly Injured our trade with Russia is not the only or the worst result. "Behind the dollar marks that figure in the trade statistics," as the Sun well says, "is the inestimable value to us of unvexed relations with the nation that has never been our enemy, never our rival or obstructor, but always and cordially and continuously our helpful friend and well-wisher."