The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-07-05
Tariff TON BY
THE PRESIDENT.

The ease with which the Hawaiian
and Mexican reciprocity treaties have
been carried through the Senate has
given our State Department an entirely
new field of activity. By acting in
conjunction with New York interests,
it can coutrive a new reciprocity treaty
at any time providing for the free adj
mission of certain articles agreed upon
St. Domingo, which Grant tried to
annex, has been pitched upon an the
proper sceue of the third experiment III
executive tariff legislation. 1t Is sit"a
ted with especial reference to the con-
veniences demanded by the exig-ncies
requiring more free admission. Just
east of it lies Spanish Port Rico. The
British Bahama Islands are north west.
and Jamaica west by north. Cnba is
west-north west, and the Central and
South American coasts, the Lesser Ali
titles, aud u great number Of inlets DO
longing to the Neither land, Denmark,
France, Spain and Great Britain, etc.
are accessible.
This treaty, like the Mexican, is one
sided in appearance. Tho list of arti-
ticles to be admitted free into st. Do
mingo is SO much longer than that Of
articles to be admitted free into the
United States. that it seems as though
the United States must have got the
best of the bargain, and the Dominicans
must have been asleep. But since we
exported to St. Domingo only Sl,l79.-
200 worth Of domestic merchandise du
ring the fiscal year ended June 30. 1892
3, and since we scarcely hope to
build up very much Of a market among
25O.O 600 people. it is not matter Of
great consequence. except to her treasu
~, whether We gain free entrance fora
long list of our products or o
But short "a is the list Of articles
which We care t, admit free from San
Domingo, it:contains sugar and molas.
90. The sugaris not to be above No. I6
Dutch standards fact to be explained
by the necessities Of our ~refiners, VIII"
need reciprocity treaties in abundance
for the procurement of raw material.
and need the exclusive possession Of
our home market for the sugars which
are ft to put on table for use. San Do
mingo can supply our r%efiners with q
good deal of raw sugxr-how much We
do not know, as the capacity of tho isl
and has never been tested. We i'm por
ted thence in 1882 1921, 049 pounds,
worth $I.l49277, aud enough other mat
tors to make a total importation of 81,
4l7,2l9 ; but the aree. Of the Domini-
can republic is 2O,59l square miles and
of Hayti. at the west end of the island,
about 1000. W. wonld rot like to guar
antee the Dominican origin of all the
sugar we will get free under the treaty,
but enough Of Dominican origin can
doubtless be produced under the quick
ening spur of free entry to make quite
q handsome profit for the NewYork re-
iners.
1t is not to be supposed that our
State Department is drawing mp this
new reciprocity fraud without the
and concurrence Of the Pre-.
sident. Nor, since the failure of the
House of Representatives to assert its
constitutional prerOgatives on occasion
of the Hawaiian and Mexican treaties.
can we hope for much ola protest from
that source. W. shall have to wait for
Democratic President to do justice to
the South in this matter-to stop nego-
treaties for the free admission
of sugar, tobacco, rice and other South
ern prOducts, and to take needed steps
for overtuning those already negotia
led. Bot the Dominica affair strikes
No in a particularly bad light. Hawaii
located off by itself, in the midst ola
great ocean /; Dominica. on the contrary
surrounded by abundant and suitable
aslds for b reproduction of sugar and
tobacco, and by way of her treaty, not
necessarily by way of her coasts. We
receive from those fertile felds all ]
that we can consume Of what we choose
to so receive. +.
QuERIEs.-The Republican orators
Rill have to explain some of thu nnas {