The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-26


adopt their theory We would have new era
in this country. On that form OF statemenI
will not differ with them. Laughter l
think we should have new era. Congress
at its last session concluded to adopt new
policy They locked at South America anu
they found we were receiving from tDose
people vast imports and exporting little TO
them. The question was shall we repeal the
duty on sugar and give that to South Amer
lea in addition to coffee ana hides and dye
woods and rubber and other things from
South America and shall we ask these men II
we give you our markets for pound to let Us
enter their markets for few shlllingsI
[Applause.] Oh, no, Mr.. Schurz says, that
won't do at all. You must resort to Tree
trade.
QUESTION FoR FREE TRADERS.
"I would like to ask Mr. Schurz before TINS
Ohio audience how free trade is going 70 iet
us into their markets with our products.
We have been giving Brazil markeS Ioi
their nearly sixty millions vi, products, ana
they were taking from us seven or eight OF
solute free trade. How would that help us
with Brazil? They have not been buying
anything and they do not let anything In
free. Thirty-six million dollars, worth OF
coffee, fourteen to sixteen millions worth OF
rubber, several millions worth of hides, ana
a great many dye stuifs and OTHER wood Oh
that kind, all coming into the United States
without shilling of duty. But we went le
send down there some lumber, some corn
and wheat, products of the West as well as
of the East, and are not satisfied as Things
were going [Laughter.] Well, we went on
and awak ened them TO the necessities Of the
situation, and we found that they feel 1sist
as we do. That we two nations dealing
with each other must deal as two men 90
with each other, fairly, honestly. llbeTally !,
SO that the advantage shall not always be on
| the side of one man or the one nation. lAp-
nlauSp1 We'll. that WAS reclDruclty. IL Is
not very complex problem. MIR. Sehurz
| rather intimates it as a strange way OF get-
| ting at things.
MYSTERIOUS RECIPROCITY,
"How strangely mysterious reciprocity Is !;
| it is Just as mysterious as when Stafke
| County farmer brings hundred bushels OF
| wheat to Canton, gets his money for IL, Buys
| supplies for his family and goes back home
| That is the mysterious process and the very
| difficult one to understand, aud yet L am
sure that Brazil ara all of the South Ameri-
| can States understood 1t the moment II was
mentioned. believe we will make very
| favorable arrangement to trade with South
| America.
Take a country like Venezuela, of large
area but small population, not more than
two and half to three millions. They bring
| us $40, coo, goo worth OF products, but how
much of that is taxed do you suppose at the
| Custom-houSe? Only $500; every cent OF
| that except $4,000 escaped taxation. we
| send them a good many things, but we DO
not send them one shiling's worth that Is
| not taxed by them. That is not fair They
admit it is not fair, and they are glad and
willing to right the matter and place US on
| reciprocal ground that will be the road To
| prosperity OF this country and the road to
| prosperity Of the other, because trade that
| Is so one-sided as that cannot be continued
forever.
| A CFANGE OF OPINION.
"When reciprocity was first sug .esteG, free
| traders all, or nearly all, approved. At that
| time they thought 1t would divide Protec-
| tionists in Congress, and they urged 1t very
earnestly as long as they. thought there
| would be some diviSion-as long as they con-
ceived it was dividing line that might ub-
| struct protectioniSts. But just us soon as
| the fret-traders found that reciprocity could
| not be used to divide the Republican party
they were all against it leheers]. every one OF
them; and now they are repudiating 1t and
| telling you what a humbug it is, and how
| little value there is iu 1t. and how small a
| result there will be TO the people OF this
| country from it. 1t is not wise for free
traders to proclaim its failure at present.
| We are given year in which to try II. Let
us wait the year and see what can be done.
| [Cheers.]
| 81 am not here to boast Oft lam here to
| condemn the course of the fTee-traders,
| who, rs long as it promises to diyffS ,Sa-
| tectiOnists were in favor Of it, but who i :
| SET aydiISb III ZIG NCtitUt tuey uHQ DlOttc-
| tionists Will not divide.
| AN APPEAL FOR M'K1NLEY.
| "Your duty, gentlemen, if may suggest
| it, is TO elect the protectionist to Congress
| [Cheers and cries of "We WILT. That is
| your interest; that is the interest Of every
| district in the country, and l appeal to this
district because of the interest at your door
sill and fireside; l appeal to every man in
| Starke County and in the three other coun-
| ties that make up this district. But you
| have a special reason. This is a very great
| distinction to any man, distinction 10 the
district represented, and distinction 10 the
| man himself to be placed at the head Of the
Committee of Ways and Means and to lead
the House of Representatives. That is
| where Thaddeus Stevens stood during the
! last eight years of his life; that is where
that great citizen of Ohio, lately deceased,
General Robert G. Schenck. stood for six
| years, and that Is where William Mckinley
stands now; and l appeal both to your in
tcrest and your pride to send him back
| again that he may be useful, not merely TO
this district, not to his State alone but TO
the people OF the United States" [Cheers.
at one time during the speech the people
in the gallery, alarmed by cracking sound,
began to make Tor the exit, and there was
nearly panic. Mr.. Blaine and Minister
Phelps, however, succeeded in reassuring
| them, and all returned to their seats, Mr.,
| Blaine, after his address, went to a meeting
briefly. The party left this evening for
| Chicago.
SENATOR SHERMAN AT PITTsBUEG.
| PIrTsBURG, Oct. 25.-Four thousand
people gathered in the City Hall tonight to
listen to an address by Senator John Sher-
| man on the issues of tine campaign. In the
| course Of his speech Senator Sherman said
There can really be but two great parties.
| There are sometimes people who think they
are a little better than their neighbors, who
| go off tG roOst by themselves on some side
issue and call themselves third party.
| have had more experience in political
| life than some Of my hearers, and
l never saw any good come out of a
| third party yet. We are all Republicans OF
all Democrats in the general meaning of the
term. because we are all i'll favor of form
| OF government in which all powers rest
with the people. Therefore, these names
do not signify anything. We must judge oil
| parties precisely as we would judge OF men.
| Of the two parties that now stand before the
| people of the country, one is like heaven
and the other like hades." Laughter and
| cheers
| After reviewing the stormy scenes in the
early part Of the past session, and the i'm
| pOrtant measures passed after the rules had
been adopted, and presenting strong plea
| for soldiers, Senator Sherman took up the
Mckinley bill.a measure, he said,
of product of foreign countries in our
| own country than any tariff bill Of
ancient or modern times. Referring
to an assertion made by some Democratic
orators, who say that we cannot produce
| sugar, the Senator said: 81 am as positive
as am of my existence to-day that within
ten years from this time we will produce
every pound of sugar that is used in this
country. We have put duty on tin plate
| equal To, and little more than the duty on
| sheet iron, and we will manufacture in this
country within five years of this time $780,.
600 tons Of plate tin, and we will make the
tin cup so cheap that nobody will growl bu
| the Democrats"
| AN EMBLEM OF STRENGTH
In conclusion the Senator said: ''1n 1860
in good old Democratic times, our currency
was the meanest ever devised by man. anO
would not pass from one part of the country
to another. Now our money travels all 0vel
the world. Then VIC were thrd-class
power, jeered and laughed at, and when the
war commemorative last legacy of Demo
cratic dministration-kings and emperor:
were watching for the decay and falling tt
pieces of this great republic. The Govern
ment was tottering to its foundations. The
| eyes Of all European countries were watch