Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-02

reports, savings banks, intsrnations
trade balances and the general proper
tV of our people.
Already we begin TO hear from abroa
and from our custom houses that tn
prohibitory effect upon Importation i'm
puted 10 the act is not justified. Import
at the port of New York for the frs
three weeks OF November were nearl
per cent. greater than for the sam
period in 1889, and 20 per cent. create
than in the same period of 1888, and 81
far from being an act 10 limit exports
confidently believe that under it we sbal
secure larger and more profitable partic-
! ipation in foreign trade than we hav,
ever enjoyed. and that we shall receive
a proportionate participation in the ocear
| carrying trade Of the world. The criti-
cIsms of the bill that have coEe TO u:
| from foreign sources may we'll be rejected
for repugnancy. If these critics really
believe that the adoption by us of free
trade policy or of the tariff rates, having
reference solely to revenues would dimin-
| ism the participation OF their own coun-
tries in the commerce OF the world. their
advocacy and promotion to speech and
| other forms of organized effort OF this
movement among our people in rare
exhibition of unselhshness in trade, and
on the other hand, if they sincerely be-
lieVe that the adoption OF O
! PROTECTIVE TARIFF POLICY
| by this country lnsures to their profits
and our hurt, it is noticeably strange
they should LEAD the outcry against the
authors of u policy so helpful TO their
countrymen and crown with their fervor
who would snatch from them a substan-
IN nf a u nj no la nd
already inadequate to their necessities.
There is no disposition among any of our
people to promote prohibitory or retalia-
tory legislation. Our policies ere
adopted, not to the hurt OF others, but
to secure for ourselves those advantages
that fairly grew out of our favored posi-
tiou as nation. Our form of govern
ment, with its incident of universal SUI
frage, makes it imperative that We shall
save our working people from the agl-
tatiou AMI ustresses which scaut work
and wages that have no margin for COM
fort always beget. But after all this is
done il will be found that our markets
are open to friendly commerclnl ex-
changes of enormous value TO the other
great powers. From the time of my in
durton into Office the duty of the using
OF every power and influence given by
law to the executive department for the
development of larger markets for our
products, especially our farm products,
has been kept constantly in mind and
no effort has been or will be spared 20
promote that end. We are under no
disndy antages in any foreign market,
except that we pay our workmen and
workwomeu better wages than are paid
elsewhere-better abstrnctly ana better
relatively TO the necessaries of life. DO
not doubt that very largely increased
foreign trade is accessible 10 US without
bartering for either our home market for
such p oducts of the farm and shop as
our own people tan supply or the wages
of our working people. In many CT the
products of wood and iron, and in meats
and breadsiufs, we have advantages
that only need better facilities of inter-
course and transportation to secure for
them large foreign markets.
THE RECIPROCITY CLAUSE
of the tariff act wisely and effectively
opens the way TO secure q large recipro-
cal trade in exchange for the free ed-
mission to our ports Of certain products.
The right of Ind pendent nations to
make special reciprocal trades conces-
sons is well established, and does not
impair either the bounty due 10 other
powers or what Is known as ''ths
favored nation clause SO generally
found in commercial treaties. What is
given TO one for an adequate considera-
ton cannot be claimed by another freely.
The state of the revenues WAS such that
we could dispense with any import duties
npon coffee, teas. hides and lower grades
of sugar and molasses, that the large
4 rttfs 49,,
ducing and exporting these articles by
placing them on the free list entitled us
to return in the way of customs conces-
sious upon articles exported by US TO |
them was so obvious that to have gratui- |
tuously abandoned the oppor tunlty to en-
large our trade would have been an un-
pardonable error. There were but two |
METHODS obtaining control of question |
open to congress-,o place eli of these |
articles upon dutiable lists, subject to |
such treaty agreements as could be Sc |
cured, or to place them all presently |
upon the free list, but subject the re-
imposition of specified duties IL the |
from which we received them |
should refuse TO give to us suitable re-
ciJrocai benefits. This latter method [ |
think possesses great advantages. lex
press in advance of the con-
sent Of congress to reciprocity ar
affecting these products
which must otherwise have been delayed
and unascertained until each treaty was
ratified by the senate and necessary leg
islation enacted by congress. Experience
has shown that some treaties looking to
reciprocal trade have failed to secure o
two-third vote in the senate for ratiiica-
ton, aud others which have passed thGt
stage have for years awaited the con-
of the house aud senate In such |
of our revenue laws as
we're necessary to give effect to their
provisions. We now have the concur
renee of both houses IN advance in @
distinct ana definite offer OF free entry to
our ports of specific articles. The execu-
i've is not required TO deal in conjecture
,s to what congress will accept; indeed,
his reciprocity provision is more than an
,ffer. Our part OF the bargain is CON-
1lete. Delivery has been made, and
when the countries from which we re-
,eive sugar, coffee, tea and hides have
placed on their free lists such of our
products rs shall be agreed upon as an
equivalent for our concession, procla-
nation OF that fact completes the trans.
lotion, ana In the meantime our own
people have free sugar, tea, coffee d