San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-01-09
MEXICAN RERRocIrY.


ministration is inimical to reciprocal
trade relations with Mexico because
the party of protection is not well
founded. That there is growing
sen timent in favor of reciprocity can
not be questioned. Senior Romero in
a recent speech in New York on the
occasion of banquet to the Spanish
American commercial union placed
the responsibility for this lack of re-
ciprocal trade relations between the
two republics along the Rio Grande
with the United States, and perhaps
justly, so. This country has had onecost-
ly experience with reprocity and at
the time when such treaty was pro-
posed with Mexico, during and after
the Grant administration, there was a
deci ded feeling adverse to any more re-
ations of that kind. Speaking of these
features Mr.. Romero is of the
opinion thatat that time United States
manufacturers were not DESTROYS of
extending their trade as they
were not at that time supplying
the home market. This condition
if existing then does net now exist
and during the past ten years a
very,ss decided drift in the direc-
ton of Mexican reciprocity has been
observable. a. This question was re-
ceiving the deepest attention of the
Garfield administration at the time it
was suspended by the assassin's
bullet. and had that statesman
and chief magistrate lived, with
James G. Blaine as his secre
tary of state, there is no doubt
that trade relations between Mexico
and this country would be on a very
ifferent footing from that which
they present today.
This same question has come to the
front under the administration of
Mr.. Harrison and there is no doubt
that at this time there is a stronger
feeling in favor of reciprocal trade re-
lations with Mexico than ever before.
For this change in the sentiment OF
the country there are reasons. Mex
leo is better known in the United
States today than at any time,
and the relations existing be-
tween the two countries, and
the feeling existing between its peo-
ple..is more cordial than heretofore.
Then again, as our manufacturing
plants grow fostered by protective
policies, our ability to supply an out
side demand leads to the desire for
an outside market, and Mexico being
the nearest is naturally the most de-
sirabIe Not only so: the protection
sentiment of the country is charging
to include in its grasp the idea of an
American trade union. The pan
American congress has done no
little to aid in creating pub
lie sentiment among strong pro-
tsctionists.:,,in favor OF including the
American republics very largely in
our protective policy. 1t is mistake
to suppose that protection is mere
theory. 1t is all active policy capa-
BILE of change and expansion to nit
the best interests of American la Dor
and manufacture. 1t is becoming APP
parent that wise movement toward
trade relations with our Spanish
American slsterhood of republics will
be more to the interest of our people
than a close restriction, and in the
light Of tins TACT this administration
though protective, will be found
favoring more unrestricted trade re-
lations with Mexico.
THE Galveston Tribune has for
gotten the injunction to brotherly
love which should rule the democratic
| household. At least its references
to its democratic contemporary, The
News, are not very brotherly if this
| is specimen.
"The News is in no danger of being
sued for overhead in advocating any
cause in which Galveston is directly
J interested. Too much Galveston
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