, 1863-09-24
Chicago Qribn1te.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER "A. 1868.


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1868.
THE FREc1pH0cITr TEEATY.
We entreat our contemporaries Of the
Eastern Press 10 spare the Reciprocity
Treaty. In that treaty the interests Of all
the agricultural communities, from Penn
eylyania westward to the thithcrmost point
from which pound Of Western produce
reaches the Atlantic sea-board, arc init
1nately bound up; and whateYer the tra-
ding and manufacturing classes may say
or do. those communities will demand,
and soiu haoe, free and unobstructed use
Of that great channel Of navigation which
nature designed for floating their products
to market. That is secured BY the treaty |
OF which nc speak; and at no time and
in no way will the West, without vigor-
ous and determined struggle, consent to
give it up. The St. Lawrence must and
shall remain tree outlet to the sea- Our
Eastern friends who are yielding to the
clamor that adverse interests are setting |
up, may depend upon that. The West is
IN earnest
We know well where tie outcry with |
which the Reciprocity Treaty is assailed
has its origin, and We have sounded the |
motive that lmpels it. The State OF New
York represented in her canals, IN her
mammoth rai1road corporations, in her |
1ranAit companies and her mercantile class-
es who 1ive by the exchange OF Western
products, is grasping, with qulckened Gu
pidity, after all the business that the West
has to do, and after rates and charges still
greater than those now imposed. I'll
they succeed, # the competition that the
St. Lawrence River now maintains with
the canals Of the Empire State is destroy
ed BY absurd and unjust prohibitions, and
: II the whole tide OF Western traffic, nndera
new Ve1f'on OF the Old oarbar'am, Is turned
through the already over crowded New
York channels, the West will be the recipi-
ent OF a blow from which, until return is
made to common fairness and common
sense She will not recover. She knows that
she cannot trust a monopoly in mat
matter so vital; and for the ben
ett OF that monopoly which is
longing aor higher tfelghts, higher charges
and increased tolls, she will not consent
that quart shall be taken out Of hereyery
hafbushel OF wheat, and an ounce from
each pound OF hermerchandah1e pork. We
do notsay that she Will fight first; but We do
say that if she is to be sacrificed in time
like this, either to State or private inter-
ests, she Will make herself heard in tones
OF indignation, to which the plotters who
are sapping her prosperity By deadly ap
proaches, will be forced to listen.
At the very focus of Northwestern in-
terests, commercial, industrial and marine,
and Intimately acquainted with Western
wants and with the sources Of Western
prosperity, we have had frequent occasion
to VAN the men OF the seaboard that they
must beware, how, in q crisis like the
present, they pursue their advantages at
Western expense. We renew the warning
now; and in doing so we tell them that
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