The Indianapolis journal., 1890-07-23
PARTIAL RECIPROCITY.
MIR. Blaine's Views on the Subject Ardently
Supported by Senator Eugene Hale

Mr. Blaine's Views on the Subject Ardently
Supported by Senator Eugene Hale.
ELLSWORTH, Me-, July Ex-senator
Eugene Hale, one of Mr.. Blaines stanchest
supporters, is at his home here for few
days of much-needed rest. In an interview
on the tariff issue to-day he said:
1T Is the duty of the Republican Senate
to stick to the bill until it is completed and
passed. 1t will not necessarily be the Me-
Kinley, but will retain all its good features.
The Senate did not receive the bill with the
prestige that would have attached to it had
1t been reasonably debated and if an actual
test of the important provisions had been
made in the House. Justice cannot be done
to any important measure in a committee
or in any body without full and free dis
cussion. This the BILL as it came from the
House, did not have. The proposition
which will be debated and passed upon by
the Senate will be one to secure a foOthold
Ill the South and Central American nations
and to get their markets for our goods.
working of the protective system nor is it
inconsistent with a protective tariff.
The fIee-traders are very fond of declar-
claring that the statement made by Mr..
Blaine-and, so far as can be judged by his
messages, approved by the Presldent-in-
volved free trade or reciprocity with the
countries of the old world. This has no
foundation whatever. The protective tar
lit gives its benefits to our labor. which in
the same fields has competitor in the
under paid laborers of European countries,
who manufacture the same things and
stand ready, if they can break down the pro-
tective system. to take control OF our mar
kets and drive out our labor.
The situation in Central and South
America is precisely the opposite. They
furnish the products which we do not sup
ply and which we need. We produce and
manufacture the things they need and
which they cannot produce. Their market
is largely in the hands of Great Britain
and France, and the money which we pay
for their products goes to these countries.
Instead of paying for their products in
money. which goes to Europe, We ought to
or by legislation so fix business relations
between us that their goods will come to us
and our goods go to them.
Taking the question of sugar alone, my
impression is that a movement should now
be made with reference to sugar, not in
volving il with the wool question. Mr..
Blaine is right in saying that if we give to
South America, Cuba and Porto Rico an
open market for sugar without terms being
imposed we shall have no hold on those
countries to induce them to let our prod
ucts freely into their ports. 1 believe it to
be fact that preparations tending to ne
gOtiatiOns with some of those countries
which would have resulted in reciprocity.
fell to the ground in the winter because the
REPRESENTATIVES, vi tuCoC COuutIlcS ulSCON-
cred from the provisions of the Mckinley
bill that they would get the benefit of free
sugar without being asked anything in re-
turn.
when we open the ports of the United
States to the sugar of South America, Cuba
and Porto Rico, the benefits which they
will derive from such policy ought to be
paid for by admitting the breadstutfs of the
West, the agricultural implements manu-
factured all over thecOuntry, the petroleum
of the Middle States. the lumber from
Maine. and the manufacture of cOttons and
woolens. and perhaps few other articles.
The duties laid in Spanish ports upon
American -four alone are so enormous that
the sugar products of theirs ought to be
held where they now are till the enormous
duties which they levy on American flour
shall be wholly or partially removed"
In speaking of the commerce of the
| United States, he said that new day had
dawned upon this country since ship-build-
| ing had been revived.