Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1890-09-25
HE IS FOR RECIPROCITY.
MR.. BLAINE WRITES ANOTHER
LETTER ON THE QUESTION.

10 APhuAHb f'hyf ACCONuluk 10
Views, Such Policy Would he of Ad-
vantage to the Wost Free Trade
Touched Upon.
Boston dispatch: The following let
ter dated at Bar Harbor, Maine, is given
out for publication:
''Col. w. w. Clapp, Editor Boston
Journal-MY Dear Sir: am In receipt
OF your favor asking me II can attend
the annual banquet OF the Boot and
Shoe club OF Boston In October. You
add that the members are in hearty
sympathy with my views regarding the
best method OF extending American
trade, and would be glad to have me
address thcm.'
81 regret that my engagements will
not permit me to accept the invitation,
but you will please thank the club for
the compliment they pay me. ] am
glad TO hear that tho members OF the
club are Interested in system OF re-
ciprocal trade with Latin America
They can do great good by counteract-
ing certain phase of New England
opinion, entertained at home as we'll as
in Westinghouse opinion which
must regard as In the highest degree
unwlsc and hurtful to New England
interests. New England is to receive
In the new tariff the amplest protection
for every manufacturing industry with
in her borders, both great and small,
and It will, in my judgment be both in.
cXpedlent and injurious for her repre-
sentativcs to disregard measure
which will promote Western interests.
Il have lately received letter from
Mr.. j. Il. limbs of St. Louis, a leading
preventative of the -four interests and
president OF the late convention OF
millers at Minneapolis. Speaking for
the grain and Touring interest of that
great section Mr.. limbs says that ad-
vices of recent date from Cuba state
that the duties now collected on Ameri-
can flour are at higher rate than was
first supposed to be the case.' And he
adds; Il respectfully submit that the
American miller will be unable to re-
tain any part OF the Cuban -four trade
unless Immediate relief Is secured
SIN view Of these facts Is 1t possible
that protectionist Congress can even
think Of opening our markets to Cuba's
products free while allowing great
Western interest to be absolutely ex.
cluded from her market by prohibi
tory tariff? With reciprocity the West
can annually sell many hundred thous
anu VI uOuI tnC VI
Cuba and Porto Rico, together with 9
large mass OF other agricultural pro
ducts. Without reciprocity she will bC
driven more and more from those mar
kets.
''Giving the fullest protection to al
Eastern interests, as the proposed tariff
does, surely no man OF good judgment,
certainly no protectionist OF wise fore
,tytahnd fn nv WnofnrO N.
terest to serious injury especially when
It Is manifestly easy to protect and pro-
very time the boards ot'trade, the cham
bers OF commerce, and public opinion
In Havana are demanding reciprocal
trade with the United States. | select
Cuba and Port Rico for examples be-
cause In certain quarters IL has been
said that, while we might secure reel
procy with some little countries In South
| America, VIC could do nothing with the
| Spanish islands. Let us at least give the
| Spanish islands an opportunity to speak
| for themselves.
Certain wise men ask: How can We
| sell farm products in South Americi
when the Same things are produced
| there? Cereals are undoubtedly growr
| I'm the sonthernmost parts Of Soutl
| America, but the wise men will remem
| Der that cereals and sugar do not grow
| in the same soil. and that the suga
| countries Of South and Central Amerlc;
| and the West India Islands contain 40,
| 900, OO0 Of people. who import the larg
| est portion of their breadsJuffs. Indeed
| the largest part of the sugar product o
all Latin America Is at our doors, ant
| we can greatly enlarna onr exchange.
there II Congress will give us the op
portunity for reciprocal trade.
lido not mean, In anything / have said
to imply that reciprocity Is only
Western interest AS / remarked In |
note to senator Frye, It will prove bene
fetal and profitable both to the farm
and the shop. What, for instance, couiC
be more natural or more just than tina
In giving free market in the UniteC
States to hides from the Argen
tine Republic we should ask the Argen
tine Republic to give better marke
than we now have for the product o.
leather from the United States? TIL
many forms In which our business in
forests will be promoted by reciprocit
cannot be known until the active com
mercial men OF the United States shal
have developed those forms by invest
CATION and experience. We shall no
realize the full benefit of the policy !
day or year, but shall we therefor
throw away countless millions OF trade
In addition to the SEQ, 600, 900 we hav
already thrown away, and then ie
norantly declare, without trial that th
system won't work?
Finally, there Is one fact tina
should have great weight, especial
with the protectionists. Every free
trader in the Senate voted against th
reciprocity provision. The freo-trad
papers throughout the country al
showing determined hostility TO 4
1t Is evident that the free-trad
Senators and the free-trade papel
have specific reason for the
course. They know and feel that, wit
a system OF reciprocity established an
growing, their policy OF free trade r.
ceives most serious blow. The pr'
tectionist who opposes reciprocity
the form in which It Is now presentC
knocks away one OF the strongest SUI
ports OF his system. The enactment
, reciprocity Is the safeguard OF prote
tions The defeat OF reciprocity is u
opportunity OF free trade.
N "Yours very respectfully,
''JAAIEs q. BLAINE
WHY ehould we open our hearts