Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-09-20
RECIPROCITY.

GAplhuulOCJ icbJcT AEOh SUBWAY
Blaine was received here last night:
To Colonel W. w. Clapp, editor Boston Jour-
nal. Boston, MHss.:
BAR HARBoR Me-, Sept. lA-My Dear Sir: I
Atm In r, CO It OF your favor asking inc II
can attend the annual banquet OF the Boot
and shoe Club of Boston In October. You
add that the members IRE en- hearty SYM
patty with my views regarding the b. 81
method OF extending American trade, and
wou be glad to have ma address them"
regret 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 e ad to hear that the members Of the
club are'intcrested in system OF reciprocal
trade with Lntin-Amcrlca. They can do
great good by coun tcractlng certain phase
OF New England opinion entertained at
home as we'll rs In Washington-at 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 AIN plest protection for every
manufacturing industry within her borders,
both great and small, and IL VIII, In my
judgment. be both inexpedient and injuri.
Gus for Representatives to disregard o
measure which will pre- mote Western inter-
ests.
have lately received n letter from Mr. j.
+. lmIs cf 81. Louis, u leading representa-.
tive of flour interests and president OF the
late invention Of millers at Minneapolis.
Speaking for the grain anl flour interests
OF that great section MIR. limbs says that
"adyices OF recent date from Cuba state
that the duties now collected on American
flour ure ut q higher rate than was first sup.
posed to be the case" And he adds: ~ re.
spcctful!y submit that the American miller
will be unable to retain any part OF The
Cuban flour trade unless immediate rslief Is
secured" In view of these facts Is 1t posi-.
BILE that protectionist Congress can even
think of opening our markets to Cuba's
products free. while allowing great West.
ern industry to be absolutely exclu led from
her markets by II prohiDitory tariff? With
reciproc ity the West can equally sell many
hundred thousand barrels of Hour In the
markets of CuUa and Porto Rico together
with a large mnss of other ayr cultural
products. Without reciprocity she Will be
driven more and more from these markets."
Giving the fu lest protection to oil East
ern interests as the proposed Tarif bill
does, surely no man OF good judgment, GER
tainly no prDtectionist Of wise forecast,
wishes 10 EXPOSE q Western interest to ser-
Gus injury especially when II Il manifestly
easy to protect It and promote it-manifest.
ly easy, because at this very time the boards
OF trade, the chambers OF commerce and
the public opinion In Havana are demand
ing reciprocal trade with the United etates.
Iselect Cuba and Porto Rico for examples,
because In certain quarters 1t ha' 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 ut least give the Spanish Islands an
opportunity to speak for themselves.
Certain wise men ask: ''IIow can We sell
farm products in South America when the
same things are pre- duced there" Cereals
are undoubtedly grown In the southernmost
portions OF South America, but the wise
men will remember that cereals and sugar
do not grow In the Same soil, or that the
sugar countries of South and Central Amer.
lea and the West India islands contain A.
600 900 of people who import the largest part
OF their breadstuffs. Indeed, the largest
part of the sugar product Of Latin America
is ut our doors and we can greatly enlarge
our exchanges there II Congress will give
us the oppC rtunity for reciprocal trade.
Another class observe that they want time
TO study the system. To this l might reply
that the best method of studying system Is
to observe It's practical workings. While
studying In the abstract and refusing to take
some eject lessons, these gentlemen pro-
pose to open our market to Latin America
products free of ull 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 gilt of that trade! When We havo
studied that lesson we shall be prepared for
the second.
The woi st proposit on OF all Is put forth by
those who say: "Let us put sugar on the
free list now and next year we Will take up
the subject Of reciprocity" II l nderstand
their logic. II Is to make sugar free this year
without condition and next year 10 ask
Spain II she will not kindly consent to grant
us reciprocal trade. Holding the complete
vantage ground themselves, the proposed
policy transfers the vantage ground to
Spain. Instead of granting favor TO Spain
to-day, we are to ask her for u favor to- NOR
row. those who take this ground Belong to
that class of care nj guardians of property
who prepare u very strong lCck for the
stable bfler the horse Is gone.
lido not mean In any thing have said to
imply that r. clprocliy is only Western In.
terest. As remarked in u note to Senator
Frye, II will prove beneficial and 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 n better market than we now have
for the product of leather from the United
states The many forms In which our busl-
ness interests will be promoted by reciproc-
i.y can not be 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 day or year, but
shall we therefore throw away countless
millions OF trade. In addition TO the sixty
millions we have already thrown away. and
then ignorantly declare without trial that
"the system won't work.
Finally, there Is one fact that should have
great weight with protectionlstS. Every
free trader In the Senate voted against the
reciprocity proposition. The free trade
papers throughout the country are showing
determined hostility to Il. II Is evident
that the free trade Senators and the free
trade papers have specific reason for their
nnt,rae They knnR and feel that with q sYs.