Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-17

mar. Blaine Has Said It.
''But there is not section nor a line
in the entire bill that will open market
for another bushel of wheat or another
barrel Of pork"
Who says this ? No less person than
the Hon. James Gillespie Blaine, Score
tary of State and not long ago the idolot
the Republican party and its candidate
for the presidency. BE uses thess precise
words in his letter to Senator Frye, given
10 the press last night. And what bill il
he talking about9 Nothing less than the
sacred protective tariff bill fathersd by
Mr.. Mckinley andput through the House
by Speaker Reed.
There is no mistake about this. The
latter is printed in the news columns OF
the New York Tribune but its editorial
columns may be searched In vain for any
reference to it. The Philadelphia Press,
on the coatrary, praises Mr.. Blaine's
seciprocal free Trade policy, without oom-
batting his statement that there is moth
ing in the Mckinley bill for the farmer.
The Press says;
Beginning with Cuba, by making the re-
peal of duty on its sugar dependent on free
entrance for our provisions and breadstuffs,
We can annex toe trade OF the island. Amerl-
can capital will flow there for its develop
ment and decade will sse Its enterprises
as fully under American control as those OF
the Hawaiian Islands. American vessels
will ply between the island and our ports.
American products will be consumed there
NJ dt1a 90,
trnde laws. will disappear.
heciprocity once begun will spread over
the hemisphere. At Btroko the United
States will step into great trade, equal to
that OF India; and, while sugar will be
cheapened for our consuming millions, the
product of their hands will find new
market. NO other policy has ever been
proposed which so meets the needs OF both
farm and factory. No greater stroke Ia
the worldwide struggle LOT trade has ever
been offered nation. Secretary Blaine
will be remembered for much bus nothing
IN his long career will be more approved ia
tho future than this great policy which he
has outlined and urged.
The Senate will err II 1t negleets this
great opportunity to preserve protection,
reduce the revenue, and extend trade
through reciprocity on sugar and other
articles.
Years ago the GAZETTE showed how
much reciprocity with the little island
Kingdom of Hawaii-with population
not muca exceeding that of the city of
Wilmington-had done for the commerce
and industries Of San Francisco. The
obvious question was put then by this
pAper-It we have been benefited SO
much by the trade of comparatively in-
significant little group of islands in the
Pacific Ocean, how incomparably more
great would he our gain were We to pur-
sue the like liberal policy toward South
American Mr.. Blaine mas come to see
this and, as a corollRry, to tell some hard
truths about the pending legislation for
ME compensation Of campaign fat-fryars.
Ills letter 70 Senator Frye was brought
sut by the new duties imposed by Spain
zpon breadstuffs exported from this
country to Cuba. Two or three days
sgo, Every EVENING called at
tention to the tact that, since
July lst-whether in retaliation or not
does not approximation flour must
sy an import dnty OF over s. per barrel
pouba. Nj. Blaine says that our -four,
oEnting the shipping price in New York
$3.50 per barrel cannot nov be laid
own in the Cuban market under gil. 46,
hat other articles of American growth
re likewise taxed by Spain to the point
prohibition-and he wants the Senate
o do sonething about it. His plan ID 70
shsr free trade in sugar, moiasses, wool,
and other products Of the West In lies
and South America in return for the free
admission by those countries OF the prod
ucts Of our factories and farms. Aad
then he goes on to hlurt ont bluntly the
great truth that the Mckinley bill Of -ra
nothing to the farmer. Oa the contrary,
he says, "our foreign market for bread
stuffs grows narrower" Let us read over
again these words Of the leading Rspub-
loan statesman OF his day
But there is not section nor line il
the entire bill that will open market for
another bushel OF wheat or auothar barrsl
Of pork"
Remember this is the declaration oi
MIR. Blaine; not o; some tarif reform
Democrat; not even Of Mr.. Butterworth
who, though he voted for the McKinIe,
bill, was charged By his fellow Rapuoli
cans with something like alteration o
mind whom he Denounced "my honoret
friend in charge Of the hop brigade, assp
ciated With the cabbage cavalry, endeay
oring to persuade the farmer that hit
highest good is IN oonfning ourselves t
q market where We do not sell now NOR
than tnree-sourths Of what We produce.
s.---
General John O. Fremont, who die,
Sunday afternoon. lived long encu
to become an historical parsonage TO th
many millions Of bis fellow cOunsrylael
too young to Eamsmber tine Mexican wa
and the birth Of the Republican parts
Yet he enjoyed the distinction OF hem
that pArty's fl st presidential candidate
being pitted against James BuchRns
in the campaign Of 1866; the drl
appearance OF the Republican part
in national campaign, the Wtig part