Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we should sell anywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions and thereby make a greater demand for home labor. The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem.
Commercial wars are unprofitable.
A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why would they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad. Then, too, we have inadequate steamship service. New lines of steamers have already been put in commission between the Pacific coast ports of the United States and those on the western coast of Mexico and South and Central America. These should be followed up with direct steamship lines between the eastern coast of the United States and South American ports.