The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-09-26
RECIPROCITY.

| Secretary Blaine Writes Another Letter o..
| the Subject of Reciprocity Matters That
Interest Western People.
BosroN, Sept 1.-THE following self
explanatory letter from Secretary
Blaine was received here last night:
! To Colonel W. W. Clapp, editor Bos ton Jour.
| nal. Boston, Mass:
BAR HARnoR Me-, Sept. ls-My Dear Sir: I
am In r-ceot OF your favor asking me 10
can attend the annual banquet OF the Boot
| and shoe Club Of Boston In OctGber. You
add that the members sre en- hearty SYM
patty with nv views regarding the be st
\ method OF extending American trade, and
| YOU d be glad to have M address them"
greet that my engagements will not permit
me to accent the invitation. but you will
| please thank the club for the compliment
| they pay me-
| am q ad to hear that the members of the
club are interested in 81 stem OF reciprocal
trade with Latin-America They can do
great good by counteracting q certain phase
/ OF New England opinion entertained at
| home as well as In Washing conan opinion
| which must regard as in the highest de-
gree unwise and hurtful to New England
| interests. New England Is to receive in the
/ new tariff the amplest protection for every
| manufacturing industry within her borders,
| both great and small, and IL will, In my
| Judgment. be both inexpedient and iniuri- |
y
measure which will pr mote Western inter
eats
Ihave lately received letter from Mr. J.
| F. limbs Of 81. Louis, leading representa-.
/ tive of flour interests and president of tho
| late convention Of miIlers at Minneapolis.
| Speaking for the grain AMI -four interests
! OF that great section Mr. LIMBS says that
''advices OF recent date from Cuba state
! that the duties now collected on American
-four are at a higher rate than was first sup
! posed to be the case" And he adds: II re-
/ specially submit that the American miller
will be unable to retain any part of the
| Cuban flour trade unles, immediate rslief is
secured" In view of these facts Is it posi-.
| BILE that protectionist Congress can even
| think of opening our markets to Cuba's
| products free, while allowing a great West
! ern industry to be absolutely exclu led from
her markets by prohioitor tariff? With
reciprocity the West can equally sell many
! hundred thousand barrels of flour in the
| markets of Cuba and Porto Rico together
| with u large mass of other agricultural
products Without reciprocity she will be
| driven more and more fro IN these markets."
J Giving the fu lest protection TO all EIst-
l ern interests as the proposed Ta'ff bill
| does. surely no man of good Judgment, GER
/ tainly no prItectonist of wise forecast,
| wishes TO expose a Western interest to seri-
| Gus injury. especially when It Il manifestly
| easy to protect IL and promote it-manifest-
/ ~ easy, because at tnls very time the DOaru9
| Of trade, the chambers of commerce and
| the public opinion in Havana are d"mand-
| ing reciprocal trade with the United states.
select Cuba and Porto Rico for examples,
/ because in certain quarters IL has been said
that while We might secure reciprocity with
some little countries In South Amer ca, we
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 America when the
same things are produced thereT' Cereals
are undoubtedly grown In the southernmost
] portions of south America, but the wise
men will remember thst cereals and sugar
| do not grow in the same soil, or that the
sugar countries of South and Central Amer
I lea and the West India Islands contain 49,
| 900, goo of people who import the largest part
Of their breadstuffs. Indeed, the largest
part of the sugar product Of Latin America
is at our doors and we can greatly enlarge
our exchanges there II Congress will give
US the opportunity for reciprocal trade
Another class serve that they want time
to study the system. To this / IN ght reply
that the best method of studying u system Is
to observe its practical workings While
studying in the abstract and refusing to take
some object lessons, these gentlemen pro-
pose to open our market to Latin America
products free of all charges without asking
Latin America to give US In turn some free
dom in their markets The object lesson
Immediately before US is the treatment of
sugar questions. Shall We make Latin
America a gilt of that trade? When ne have
studied that lesson we shall be prepared for
the second i
The worst proposit on of all is put forth by
those who say: LET US put sugar IN the
free lis: now and next year we viii take up
the subject of reciprocity" II / unG stand
their logic. Ii is to make sugar free this year
without condition and next year to ask
Spain If she will not dly consent to grant
us reciprocal trade. Holding the complete
vantage ground themselves, the proposed
policy transfers the vantage ground to
Spain. Instead of granting { iavor to Spain
to-day, we are to ask her for a favor to- NOR
row. those who take this ground belong to
that class of care III guardians of property
who prepare very strong lCck for the
stable aft er the horse is gone.
lido not mean in any thing i have said to
imply that ciprocity is only Western in
terest. As remarked in a note to Senator
Frye, 1t will p-ove beneficial aud profitable
both to the farm and the shop. What. for
instance. could be more natural or more Just
than that giving free market in the United
States TO hides from the Argentine Republic, |
we should ask the Argentine Republic to
give US better market than we now have |
for the product of leather from the United
states The many forms in which our bust
ness interests will be promoted by reciproc-
i;y can not b. known until the active COM
mercial men of the United States shall have
developed those forms by Investigation and
experience We shall not realize the full
benefit OF the policy in a day or a year, but
shall We therefore throw away countless
millions of trade, in addition to the sixty |
millions we have already thrown away. and |
then iRnorsntly declare without trial that |
"the system won't work.?
Finally. there is one fact that should hal |
great weight with protectionists- Even |
free trader In the Senate voted against the |
reciprocity propos tion- The free trade |
papers throughout the country are showing |
determined hostility to It. II Is evident |
that the free trade Senators and the free |
trade papers have specific reason for their |
course. They know and feel that with a sys- |
tenn Of reciprocity established and growing |
their policy of free trade would receive q |
most serious blow. The protet Zionist who |
opposes reciprocity In the form In which it |
Is now presented knocks away one of the |
strongest supports Of his system The en- |
actment of reciprocity Is the safeguard of |
protection. The defeat of recTproci y is the |
opportunity Of free trade Yours very re.
spectfully, JAMES G. ELAINE.
banquet to Ohcers.
STOCKHOLM Sept IA dinner was
given last night by the city Of Stock
holm to the officers attached to the |