New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-26

hardly transported that grain to the other side
and cold = ss high price until gSld was r HSSSsi
s1sS r.. Sa1s oaspu snG Of the mines hardly
EVOLUTION that began in lszs psfslysed the n.
United States q market that was uhparalielse;d led
Europe had hardly Quoted the revolutionary ats s
turbanoe, when France and England and huss, rs
and half these great nations were paraiysea ~ ~
their industries Now, there are four or hve OF
what you might call the accidents, or the nc,t
# nssS ri. assn, TsaS
3 tariff OF any kind whatever. tAppaas x;r -
the duties, instead Of being what the arm al
yalorem, or II there had been no duties the couh
try would have been prosperous. r,.,or IN tho
Now II you can produce such soine ". II
wS,s d:s;vel ySS 'sS s.ss With
millions nil thrown into the lap Of the people; II YOU
can have every nation in Europe disturbed BY
revolution; II you can have ,o 1nt two Years and
haif then We viii all quit talking tariff and 60
TO supplying the vacuum which thai conuition Oh
things n sbe IN fI p 1884, MS when been
under ddS -" way for ten years. this great war In
Europe came to an end. and 50 did al Ine pros
e1 CS s ali remember what happened in ie57one
az The severest panics and depressions this coun-
try ever encountered. and as long as these sool-
dental props these fortuitous happenings, these
accidental revolutions. discoveries Of gold, famine
On soon AZ they ceased. the prosperity under the
tariff Of ls46 ceased also
We do not want revolutions. We do not want to
have thousands Of men slaughtered by war. IN IN
order TO keep up free-trade tarih and make II
look prosperous, when it is not. daughter ana M.
aoplause.J Give us a protective tarih. and we
can get along without the slaughter or the starva
don of men. We can make ourselves sustaining
with viii s. something beyond for the people that need
help from our abundance.
DAMAGE DONE BY OTHER LOW TARIFFS.
In connection with the tariff Of ls4s'
call your attention historically to TWO
other tariffs In addition to that. Inc
only three tariffs that the United States has ever
had, suddenly lowering duties, were the one made
after the War of 1912, the compromise tarln OIL
1888, and the one in 1916, and every one OF them
led to business prostration in this country wnscn
n .SSaS i e tariff enacted. Applause
to the relief Of the people. daughter The only
tried freetraSe tariff they fell into adversty
nnti n protective tariff came to their relief. Some
people want to let the protective tarin 20 of
would like to see that experiment tried If only
one or two people were to suffer but 1t IS pretty
hard thing to take the dreadful ana terrible
chance Of Frustrating the Industries OF thr oths
to be fed applause When the tarlf Of aotS 20
was enacted there were only twenty millions s OIL
people in the country we now nave six onantsi
according to the census of the United stltes we
only had seven thousand millions OF properly;
We now have sixty-four millions OF people anu =
sixty thousand millions of properly. lhpPiauso.'
Gentlemen. YOU cannot sport with that number
of people and with that mass Of properly. we
cannot experiment, even at TINS ti5e, anu sho
the vast interests, when We could NOT put Ins
country where il stands to-day for Ten pcnl'chua'
years thereafter Applause
THE MEANING OF RECIPROCITY.
Mr. Schurz condemns the effort of Congress 10
secure reciprocity of trade with certain coun-
tries. Uaughter.) The Free-TraderS have always
been telling us that if we would adopt tnelr
theory we would have new era In TINS coun-
try.' On that form of statement will not dliter
from them gaughtcr think we should ona,h nave
to adopt new policy. They looked at Solti
America and they found that we were
receiving from those LITTLE people U the% Tine
Question was Shall We repeal the duty on sugar
and give that to South America. in addition TO TIC
coffee and the hides. and the dye-woods, ana the
rubber, and the other things from South America,
and shall ask those men, II we give them our
markets for the pound, to let us enter theirs t1r
few shings Appl;use e At Hh 9 9o MO- must re-
Sort to free,trade' But would like to ask Mr.
Se iu before this Ohio audience how free trade
d ducts we have been giving Brazil mare,
for their nearly sixty millions OF products, ana
they were taking from us seven, or eight, or piIe
free-trode. How would that help us with Brazil
They have not been buying anything, ana
they do not let anything in free. Thlrty-six
million dollars worth of coffee. fourteen 70
Of hides and great many dye stuils and WOOD OF
that kind all coming into the United states with
out a shilling Of duty; bnt we want to SEND GOWN
wheat, the products Of the West as we'll as OF the
East, and are not satisfied as things We're gong
daughter Well we went on ana awa n1 ,so
found that they feel just as we do-tmt Two
nations dealing with each other must deai as Two
men do with each otter fairly, honestly, llDeraly
so that the advantage shall not always I've on the
nation Applause WE'LL that was reclproclty
1t was not a very complex problem. MT. Schur1
rather intimatcs that IL is strange way OF ect-
ting at things How strangely mysterious reci-
procity is 1t is just rs strange and MYSTERIOUS rs
when a Stark County farmer brings 100 buShe's
of wheat to Canton gets MS money b bor bo%e
Naughter.) That is a mysterious process, imo
very difficult to nnderstsnd Yet ! am sur. sure
that Brazil and all the South American States
understood it the moment II was mentioned. an
sure and speak with great candor when say
that believe that we will make very favorable
arrangement to trade with South America Take
q country like Venezuela of large area, but SINAI MAJ
population, not more than 100000 to 100000
They bring us S10,4OO.000 worth Of products
the the Custom House Only $4,000 Every cen,
of that except $4,000 escapes taxation; We sent
them a good many things, but we do not sent
them one shillng's worth that is not taxed by
them That is not fair. They. admit that it i
not fair, and they are glad and willing TO righ
the matter and place us on reciprocal ground thai
will be to the prosperity of this country and t.
the prosperity Of the other; because trad, thai
Is 90 one-sided as that cannot he continued for
ever i have not seen an approval from any
Free-Trade country of the reciprocity idea tina
has stood the test for three months. WheI
ali. or nearly all, approved. At that time the,
thought it would divide the Protectionists in Con
gress and they urged it very earnestly as Ions
az they thought there would he some division. AZ
long az they conceived that Il was the dividin!
line that might obstruct the Protectionists.
Mr.. Blaine did not finish this paragraph, o
the crowd in the gallery at his left hand be0am