Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-30
PREMIER BLAINE.
The Secretary of State on the
Reciprocity Plan.
OUR ADVERSE BALANCE OF TRADE.

with South America and Cuba-Both
Parties Charged with CareIessness-
The Remedy Proposed-Speeches by
Mason and Lodge-PolitieaI Notes.
WATERvILLE, Me-, Aug. 30 - About
10, 500 people assembled at a mass-meeting
here last night to listen to an address by
Secretary James e. Blaine After re-
marks by Governor Burleigh, President
Small, of Colby university, introduced
Mr.. Blaine as the Header of the Repub
lican party and famous advocate of an in
seresting and progressive protective tariff"
Hon. W + Mason, of Illinois, followed in
an enthusiastic speech indorsing the prin-
ciples of reciprocal trade. The meeting
closed with an earnest speech by Hon.
Henry Cabot Lodge indorsing the federal
slectlon bill, warning the voters that the
government must protect all its citizens
In the right to vote. Lodges presence was
unexpected and the people greeted him
warmly.
Eulogy on Maine.
Blaine said he was glad to speak in
Wsterville, sine it was there that he was
first nominated for congress, and he well
remembered the qualification with which
he learned that the nomination was unan-
imous. Referring to state affairs, he said
the affairs of no other state in the Union
had been more justly, more wisely, and
more economically administered Names
| succession OF Republican chief magis-
srates had been without spot or blemish.
Word for Congregational Candidate
He then proceeded as follows: The
| election which takes place on the sth of
next month involves in great part the po-
litieal issues now under discussion in the
national field. The decision of Maine
| will have due influence on the other
states, and that decision will be pro-
| nounced in the majorities we shall give
| in our four congressional districts. Each
of these districts is represented by an
able man, in whom the Republican peo-
pie of Maine have confidence. 1 should
regard it as political calamity to the
state if any one of these four should, by
| any possibility, be defeated. In this dis
| trict am sure that Mr.. Milliken has been
| a faithful representative as will be shown
by large majority, and l trust the Re-
publicans in the three other districts are
alive to their duty
Advocating Enlarged Foreign Trade.
In regard to national questions he said:
| Il wish to declare the opinion that the
United States has reached point where
one of its highest duties is to enlarge the
| area of its foreign trade. Under the bene-
| ficent policy of protection we have de-
| veloped volume of manufactures which,
| in many departments. over-runs the de-
| mands of the home market. In the field
/ of agriculture, with the immense pOpu-
latiOn given in IL by agricultural nipple.
ments, we can do far more than produce
breadstuffs and provisions for our own
people; nor would ii be an ambitious des-
tiny for so great a country ours TO
manufacture only what we can consume
| or produce only what we can eat We are
already, in many fabrics and in many pro-
ducts, far beyond that, and our great de-
mand is expansion of trade with coun-
| tries where We can find profitable ex-
| change.
In No Hurry for Annexation.
"We are not seeking annexation of ter
| ritory. Certainly we do not desire it IN
less it should come by the volition of a
people who might ask the priceless boon
Of place under the protection ofthe flag OF
| the Union. feel sure that for long time to
be wisely content with our present area,
and not launch upon any scheme of an
nexation- At the same time / think we
should be uniwisely content if we did
not seek to engage in what the younger
Pitt so well termed annexation of trade
Long Period of Protection.
For nearly thirty years now the
United States has had the advantage of a
protective tariff-by far the longest IN
broken period that its industrial policy
has been in force since the federal gov
eminent was organized. Happily the
great majority of our people, without
strict regard to party lines, believe that
| the results to the American people from the
protective policy hare been incidentally
beneficent, aggregating in quarter of a
century a national and individual wealth
beyond anything ever dreamed of before
in the history OF the world
Benefits Claimed for the Policy.
81 do not mention protection because /
intend to speak in reference thereto be-
fore this audience. / merely wish to pro-
claim its victories. Without protection
the United States would have been poor
indeed after the ravages of the war from
1851 to 1875. With protection every sec
ton has f1ourished and prospered. grown
II.
have been laid with no expectation of de-
veloping industries there have INN any in
stances been great financial and industrial
results. 3" The speaker illustrated this by
the results of the silk duty and said he
could cite other similar cases.
A Plea for Reciprocity.
He then said the reciprocity idea he adj
vocates is not novel or new, and proceed
ed: What mean to speak of briefly is a
system of reciprocity not in conflict with
q protective tariff, but supplementary
thereto, and presenting field of enter
prise that will richly repay the effort and
energy of the American people Take
last year-1S59. In that year our whole
exports to all the countries in the three
continents of Europe, Asia and Africa,
and to Australia, Canada and Hawaii,
amounted in round numbers to 1855 000,-
00O, and our imports from all these coun-
tries amounted, in round numbers, to
k527, 900, 600, showing that from that vast
trade we had balance of $l29 600, 900 in
our favor, equivalent to that amount Of
gold among our people.
Accounting for the Actual Loss
@But when all the accounts were closed,
instead of having sl29, 600 900 in our favor
we had a balance of sl3, 600, 600 against US
from our foreign trade. We must there
fore have lost $40. 000, 600 in our commerce
with the countries outside of those to
which have referred. Where could we
have found such a large adverse balancef
Let me tell you. We lost s41, 900. 900 in
Cuba, from which our imports were s51,-
900 900 and TO which our exports were
only 81, 100000 In the republic of Brazil
we lost S., Co., 600 Our imports from
Brazil were $50, 000, 00O Our exports to
that Oregon and the whole of the Pacific
coast territories were utterly worthless
for agricultural purposes.
Prophecy Is Mighty Onsartin.
Reagan remarked that Webster had