The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26

ity of trade with certain countries
Free traders have always been telling US
that if we would adopt their theory, we
would have new era in this country On
that form CT the statement I will not differ
with them. Laughter, l think we
should have a new era. Congress at its
last session concluded to adopt new
policy They looked at South America
and they found we were receiving from
those people vast imports and exporting
little to then. This question WAS shame.
We put a duty on sugar and give that to
South America, in addition to coffee and
hides, and dye woods, and rubber, and
other things sfrom South America. And
shall we ask these men II we give them our
markets for pound to let US enter theirs
for few shillingss Applause. oh no!
Mr.. Schurz says that won't DO at
all. You must resort yourself to
free trads. But 1 would like to ask Mr..
Schurz before this Ohio audience how free
is going to let us into their markets with
our products We have been giving Bra
I'll a market for nearly sixty millions of
their products. and they were taking from
US seven or eight or nine millions. Now
suppose we declare absolute free trade.
How would that help US with Brazil
They have not been buying anything, and
they do not let anything in free. Thirty
SIX million dollars worth of coffee,
fourteen to sixteen millions of rubber,
several millions of hides and q great many
dye stufTS and woods OF that kind all co L.
ing to the United S ates without shilling
OF duty, but we want 20 send down there
some flour, some lumber, some corn and
wheat products of the west as well as of
the east, and are not satisfied as things
were going. TLaughteri. Well, we went
and awakened them to the necessities of
the situation and we found they felt just as
we do-that two nations dealing with each
other must deal as two men with each
ther-fairly, honestly, literally, so that
the advantage shall not always be on the
side of one man or nation, Applause.
| Well, that was reciprocity. 1t is not very
complex problem. Mr.. Schurz rather init
mates that it is a strange way OF getting at
things. How strangely mysterious recip-
rocity Is! 1t is just as strange and mystic
rlous as when a Starke county farmer
brings hundred bushels of wheat to Can
ton, gets his money for it, buys supplies for
his family and goes back home. Laugh
ter. That is a mysterious process and
very difficult to understand. Yet | am sure
Brazil and all the South American states
understood 1t the moment it, was
mentioned. l believe we will
make very favorable arrangement
to trade with South America, a country
like Venezuela, of large area but SINAI
population, not more than 100000 to 3,
U000 GOO. They bring us Sl0000,000 worth
of products. But how much of that is
taxed do you suppose at house. Only S.
GOO. Every cent of that, except $1,000
escapes taxation. We send them a goot
many things, but we do not send them one
shiling's worth that is not taxed by them
That is not fair. They admit that it is no
fair, and they are glad and willing to righ
the matter and place us on reciprocal
, ground that will be to the prosperity o
this country and the prosperity of thu
other, because trade that is so one sided al
, that cannot be continued forever.
when reciprocity was first suggested
the free traders all, or nearly all, approved
!, it. At that time they thought it would eli
, vide the protectionists in Congress, ant
they urged it very earnestly so long as the,
t thought there would be some division, S
long as they conceived it was a dividing
line that might obstruct the protectionists
! Just as soon as the free traders found tina
: reciprocity could not DO used to divide tn
Republican party, they were against il
+ Echeers every one of them, and now the
are repudiaJing it and telling you what
humbug. it island HOY little value there
S in it, and how small n result Their
3 will be to the people of thi
/ country from it. 1t is not wis
for the free trrders to proclaim
yea
in which to try it. Let us wait year an
4 see what can be done. Cheers. ] al
4 not here to boast of it: am here to cor
4 denim the course of the free traders WHIT
r so long as it promised to be success an
a the protectionists were in favor of 1t ais
4 favored it, but who are set against it th
e moment they find protectionists will NJ
;, divide. Cheers.
t Your duty, gentlemen, if 1 may sug
\ 10 inn s
e TO Congress. Cheers and cries c
I'VE will."l That is your interest; th;
= is the interest of every district in TT
d country. appeal to this district becau:
n of the interest at your doors aud tiresides
4. l appeal to every man in Stark county an
/ the three other counties that make up tn
district But you have a special reasG
u 1t is very great distinction to any man,
U distinction to the district represented, an
y distinction to the man himself to |
= placed at the head of the committee c
l ways and means and to lead the House
10 Representatives. GCheers. That is whe
d Thaddeus Stevens stood the last eigl
years Of his life; that is whe
s. that great citizen of Ohio, lately decease
,s General Robert @. Schenck, stood for s
a years. and that is where William McKi
ID ley stands now. Uproarious cheering] Al
To | appeal boJh to your interest and to yol
" pride to send him ba * again, that he ms
!: be useful, not merely to this district, not
a, his state alone, but to the people of Il
"a United States
# At one time during the speech the pc
At pie in the gallery, alarmed at a crackil
e. sound, began to make for the pit and the
was nearly panic Mr.. Blaine and Mi
ID lister Phelps. however. succeeded in I
at assuring them, and they all returned
ne their seats. Mr.. Blaine, alter his adore:
D. went to the meeting at the Academy
Music and spoke very briefly. The par
in left this evening for Chicago.