The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-08-23

| has written another letter to the sena-
tor from Maine, in which he explains
| his first declaration as to reciprocity !:
aud the senior senator from Maine (Mr.
Hale) has seen proper 10 explain the
meaning of the secretary of state az TO
this new idea on the part of our pro-
lection friends The article from the
senator from Maine (Mr. llale) goes
on to state that reciprocity must obtain
alone with South America. That SEN
| ator and Mr.. Blaine fully recognize the
tact that if reciprocity is TO obtain with
all the countries of the world, that
means free trade pure and simple,
because il il mere question OF com
mercial barter as to what we shall give
and they shall take, and the principle
of reciprocity is tho principle of free
| trade.
TO escape that conclusion, which is
deadly to the present position of the
republican party IN the United States,
the senator from Maine (Mr. Hale)
goes on to cOniine the meaning of the
secretary of state to South America and
states that the South American com
monwealths or states will take from us
our agricultural products and give us
in return their semi.tropical products,
but that England is our great rival and
reciprocity cannot obtain with England
for tho reason that her manufactured
goods will come III direct competition
with the manufactured goods of the
United States.
Mr.. President. nearly three-fourths
of the exports of agricultural products
| from this country go to Great Britain,
and | propose TO show from the EcOr-
Omist, the highest authority in the
republican party in the shape OF a
journal i'm this country, that the South
American states, instead of being in a
condition for reciprocity, are to-day
becoming our great rivals in the agri-
cultural products necessary to human
life.
THE PROPOSED TRADE WITH SOUTH
AMERICA.
Says the Economist:
The following is from an article by
Van Buren Denslow in the last Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper:
I" SIS il true, as ascertained by al
attache of the state department on
behalf of Mr.. Blaine, that by trading
the duties on sugar and on carpet
wools' for u special discriminatIve rate
of duty on our exports, lower than IL
given to any other nation. we could
obtain n market for from $50, 600, ,00C
to 800, 900, 600 in breadstuffs and pro.
visions, the flour and corn, cornmeal
bacon, hams, lard and preserved meats
of all kinds produced in this country
and numerous articles of American
manufactured Mr.. w. f.. Curtis, who
was appointed by Mr.. Blaine to report
on the subject says:
"'Chili has already driven the floui
of the United States off the west coast
of South America, and now suppliel
Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. The Cal.
ifornia millers are also beginning tC
feel the competition of Chill at Panams
and along The west coast OF Contra
America, and unless cheaper ireIght'
are offered from San Francisco south
ward we shall lose a large and lucra.
tive market.
1.-the Argentine Republic was al
) importer of breadstuds few years
since, but the agricultural development
of the pampus is 30 rapid and exten
sive that the present product not onl!
supplies the local demand, but furnish
es an annual surplus valued at $14, 900,
600 for export. The same is true o
Uruguay, which has also become al
exporter of wheat and -four within tn,
last two or three years and has al
enormous productive capacity nov
being rapidly developed by Italian
immigrants. The time is not far dis
tant when these three countries will
, deprive the United states of the create
portion of its flour market in the Wes
Indies and South America, and will
enter into active competition with u
in Europe
obviously, if we can sell bread
stuffs TO such countries, we can, wit
like facility, sell them IN India, Russi
and Hungary.
''ln the same report the writer ell
lightens us thus concerning our mark
cts in South America for preserves
!, meats. He says:
"The same countries, Argentine, Uru
quay and Chill, are also large prOdnc
, ers of sheep and cattle, and while Chi
will supply the west coast with beef an
: mutton, the Argentine Republic an
: Uruguay will eventually have q seriOu
effect upon our European trade, beiu
| able from their peculiar advantages L
underbid the beef producers of th
United States anywhere in the world
= Already refrigerator ships are sailin
nearly every day from the river Plat
loaded with dressed beef and mutto
for England and Germany ,and packin
houses are being erected on an extcn
sive scale under all $S, 900 900 subsid
from the Argentine government.
"The jerked beef supply of BraZ
] and the West Indies has long been fur
nished bylArgentine ana Uruguay an
the expectations to Europe alread
l amounts to millions of dollars annual,
. . The River Platte Valley Is mor
TO be feared than India, Russia q
] Australia as a competitor in breadstufl
D and provisions.
"There is scarcely spot in the Rive
Platte country comprising Argentine
8 Uruguay and Paraguay, more than 81
I miles distant from u navigable rivel
Y and our advantages in this respe,
4 would not be greater than theirs
D ocean steamers could load at Piitsburs
Y Kansas City ur st. Paul"
Now, says the Economist, commen
) ing upon this:
Finally, in carrying out this pro
= gramme, it is necessary 10 believe tn,
all South America treaties with 0the
t countries than the United States, guar
' anieeing to them equality "with til
= most favored mation," are to be repeal
0 ed in order that Il special discrimin,
ton may be made in our favor.
: Did one delegate from these states
d the Pan American congress SO much &
u intimate that any such discriminatin
= rates i'm favor OF the United States al
= possible2
Q To make such treaty would be
, obliterate the precedents afforded by
j whole century of progress, and to slid
o straight back into that mediRvalisl
8 which Adam Smith condemned. tn
1 burden of the argument OF the "Wealt
D of Nations is not directed, rs FIRE
I traders recklessly assert, against pro
D tective duties, but against treatit
i which give q lower rate of duties to on
Z nation than TO another. For thes
treaties, DIR. Smith had no words
{ indignation adequate TO express h
J. adherence. Since he wrote, All
y largely through the influence of b
i writings. they have passed into tot'
L disuse.
o And is il now proposed that Il
II United States shall undertake the pre-
q paganda for tho revival of tins defun
/, and utterly obsolete System of discrim
Il nation; and this, too, in order that "
o NAV make the effort to sell packe
II meats TO meat packers and breadstuf
s to the exporters OT grain!