Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-10-16
criminatelv to FOREIGN competion.


to foreign competition.
The concoctors of the Mills bill, for
example, went so far as to fabricate a
system of ad yalorem duties, whereby
the American market could be flooded
by stealth and fraud with cheap and
flimsy foreign products-so that duties
which on the surface might seem to be
protective could be rendered by under
valuations and other customhouse
frauds the opposite of protective.
And in the face of this record and
purpose the democratic press has the
nerve to pretend that the new tariff leg
islation does not provide sufficiently
for enlarged foreign markets.
The Journal afiirms that no congress
since the adoption of the constitution
of the United States ever did as much
as the present republican congress at
the session just adjourned, in practical,
business-like ways. to open up new and
advantageous foreign markets to
American producers, and especially to
western farmers.
In the first place the tariff measure
which was framed-being the measure
of which the so-called Mckinley bill
was only rough first draft or basis
embodied the policy of reciprocity,
whereby it will be possible in time to
open the markets of the 100000 in
habitants of the Latin American coun-
tries to the flour, preserved meats and
other food prophets of western farm
ers, who will at the same time receive
at lower prices coffee and other pro-
ducts of common consumption in which
they do not compete. 1t is true that
the plan of reciprocity embodied in the
new tariff law is not the best that could
have been devised, and is in fact very
faulty; but with congress in which the
west, and not the solid south, is the
controlling factor, a more effective sys-
TEN of reciprocity, after the general
idea of James G. Blaine, can easily be
devised and enacted. a beginning has
been made, and it is fact of immense
significance to the west
But that is not ALL The new tariff
law provides a carefully drawn system
of drawbacks on imported raw material
where the finished product is exported,
and other provision, calculated to ex
tend the foreign trade of the United
States.
Another most important feature of
the legislation of the present congress,
as the Journal has more than once
pointed ont is that measure providing
quick methods of retaliation upon for
eign nations which maintain unjust
Determinations against the United
States. The prOhibitOry edicts Of the
German, French and English govern
mentS agaisnt the importation of hog
products and live cattle, on the false
pretense that they are diseased, have
unfairly shut the farmers of Iowa and
the west out of the markets of 10000
600 people. The retaliatory legislation
enacted few weeks ago by the repub
lican party provides a method for
bringing these nations to terms, and
the indications are that within a few
months their outrageous prohibitory
edicts will be withdrawn.
The republican party also provided a
few subsidies to American steamships
not as many nor as large as should
have been provided-so as in some
me assure to cOunterbalance the advant-
ages which the enormous government
subsidies have given to English and
German ships.
These are few of the business like
measures enacted by the republican
party with view to opening foreign
markets and especially in the interest
of western farmers. To every one of
these measures-reciprocity, retalia-
ton, subsidies, etc.-the democratic
party has been opposed. In the six
years it did not do one solitary act to
advance American interests in foreign
fields, but all its labor tended to en-
barrass them in the home field.
The republican party has done its
great work within few months of the
moment when it got control of the
government.-SiOur city Journal
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