The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-10-24
pHn PAN.AMn IdAN OoN0Hnhh
MmAAb HREl phADn,

The Pau-Am rioau Congress, now
prtplded over By Jameh u blhlue, our
secretary vi state, and now Waiting tho
pnunlpal oulnmtTuiHl ana manufaotuf'
lng uitiun OF tho uuittd state, ~ tho
muht Important representative body
lna han over yiaitel unr hnurua,
Who aIu they, And what arc they here
lUrY ILpy rppfehrnt "a country ~ Afea
40 large aa tuv Unlted slatth, with a
population OF over hlty millions OF
puuple, aud lhey ate hure " establish
plubur COMMERCIAL relations With tho
Uullud Atatrn,
lhry want ~ trade with us, provided
Wu wlll rddu with tlrln,
They nave pruuuo,a we cannot IA 10
in tho Untvd States, but winch We
Largely uunaumv, ana They want w soil
un thuhu products aud purchase Our
manufactured products IA retufn,
lhuy baS 10 ua, remove all your tariff
thXth on our products hnd Wb viii To-
move all tault taxeh VA your pl0au0la,
lua intauh OummtlClM reciprocity, OF
~ pau language, Iito tTade
Fee tladu has uubu thugfvat Htpub'
can scare GROW, aud no d0magOgut has
uHru " Win mOre adrUltnrbh, or with
reatof effect, than thay pflu0uO VI pOllti'
Cal JODbuib, James q, Biaiue.
Now, startling, HS " may seem, tlila
same James u, bidlllu ~ IA faYOr OF OK
lUudlug our tlado Win tho Cuntfai aud
ovutu American Republics, by rtm0y
ing Mrlii taxes on Inulr prOuuctb, or
in other words he advocates ff,u trAdu
with country ~ large au tho whole Ot
tho Umtuu states,
10 thlB complexion has HarrlaOn'a
great Premier Guunu at laht; aua now
Wu shall expect thaJ" Tray, blanche aud
o,Sbethuat,' auu all tho little poodle
dUgo vi 30 called Protection, VIII bark
lice tradu with SVuln America, la
BlHuuY
Wll the serene and ponderously
weighted Mcknley fan intO llneY WA
he % wlling 70 Cast aslde that great
plOttcuOus speech which has cUaI him 10
yuaB OF liiu'd Ue5L Effort, aud whose
ornate sentences and rounded perlUd8
makes oven tne Dtbt bpUcllnenB Ut
Blaf'S rhetOrlc appear pale, HAT ana
iuNpiuY
Nov lot us look at this Pan.Amen.
can Congress ana see what II meana TO
uJ,
Under our present robber tarill II Is
Impossible " establish satisfactory
commercial relations with Mexico, with
Bra2ll, with the great continental
iblaud of Australia, VI with the kepuD.
lies vl Central And south Americ. We
have het up u wall OF uXolusiyvntBs aud
barred them Out Of thlB country, aud
they have been dolng business with
Euglaud, France anu Germany.
AN tho trade Of these countries nat.
urally belongs " tho United states.
We could command that trade, N We
had u senslUle tarlil, luStead OF Il Chi.
nusu wall oi exclusion AT present we
cannot compete win eithef England,
France Or Germany for the trade Vt thb
south American continent, The Unit.
Cd states ought W hayo that trade; auu
" is enormous.
Englald munop0lI2es II now.
There ARE lltteen VI these Rrpublics
10 the South OF us, besides tne great
Empire OF Brazil. They ure ~ large as
tho whole United states aud one half
VI Europe. They are our natural,
commercial and business allies. The
t0lal oOmmerct OF these countries IL,
imports S3S0OOOUO, exports over Sl0O,'
UVUUOO. Ot this amount the United
States solu there, last year, Unly aBvut
Si5,UOOO00.
Cnll alone imports yearly over $50,
0UOOOO manufactured goods ana OF
tins amount England sells them over
S20UOO,OOJ ana tho United States only
S3UOOOOO, aud yet England is farther
oil BY 900 miles vi ocean.
Last year VIZ produced about six mil.
llOn bales OF cotton in the United
states, aud yet II is an atrOcIOus TACT
that OF the SB6,OOO0O0 expended by
Central aud South American cOun.
tries for cotton fabrics, $50.
0OOOOQ went TO the merchants and
manufacturers Of England. And vet
~ do TINS, THIS cotton had To cross The
Atlantic twice, once as raw material,
and then again as manufactured pro.
ducts, la the face OF these Statistics
what becomes of the humbug theory Of
Mckinley that Protection Cheapens
ProductsP IL goes glimmering into
that gloom that an indignant
people ought TO speedily aud
permanently consign ali the gang
OF monopollsts aud trust sharks, who
have driven this genius of American
democracy from It's legitimate fields of
conquest, and robbed the wonderful
inventive genius OF the American ar.
tisan Of the best markets of The
word.
The most absurd spectacle In the en-
tire commercial world is our trade
with Brazil. We buy the great bulk
OF her raw products, while she spends
the money We pay her for them In Eng.
land aud France. In 1887 over sou.
OOOUOO OF the products of Brazil were
purchased III the Uult d States Dnring
the same year Brazil purchased S35 OOO-
wv OF manutactnrtd pr0duclB from
England, $l5OOO,OOO from France, ana
only SS,O0OUOO from the United States
With tho protective tariff ohackles
Knocked OIL, the United states
could have sold Brazil the 1886 35OOOOO0
Ot manufactured products aud kept
that money In the United States TO en-.
ploy the American artisan aud rive
Impetus aud force to every business
Cannot the 0btuse and stupid lack.
asses who are shouting Protective tariff
see the absolute need Vt taking The war
tariff of raw material.
With the tariff taken off raw mater.
al and the necessarles OF life, the Unit
ID States can command the entire cou.
.rol Of South American markets.
They are our natural allies ia trade
They are tied 10 us geographically and
)y mutual sympathy.
The narrow minded leaders OF the
Republican party fail to recognize the
treat truth, that what We need now
3 freedom TO compete, rather
han a socalled protection, which
means nothing but exclusion,
IL Is an amazing spectacle, in full
Ilew OF the facts here presented,
hat there Ia found In thla cnnntrv !,