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Ehs Daily Eight.
FRIDAY, JULY Is, 1890.
BLAINE THE TARIFF BILL.

BLAINE ON THE TARIFF BILL.
Mr.. James G. Blaine can always be
trusted to keep a keen eye open on
American industries, and to lose no
opportunity of advancing their inter-
ests. His recent communication to
Senator Fry, on the exactions of the
Spanish duties in the case of Ameri-
can flour. is made the occasion for a
statement concerning the present
tariff bill which is well worth con-
sidering. Mr.. Blaine says:
II do not doubt that in many re-
spects the tariff bill pending in the
Senate is just measure, and that
most of its provisions are in accor-
dance with the wise policy of protec-
tion. But there is not q section or q
line in the entire bill that will open
q market for another bushel of wheat
or another barrel of pork. If sugar
is not placed on the free list without
exacting important trade concessions
in return for it, it shall close the door
of profitable reciprocity against US.
| think you will find some valuable
hints on this subject in thePresidents
brief message of June 8, with as
much practical wisdom as was ever
stated in so short a space.
This conclusion and criticism of
the secretary of state is fortified by a
very thorough epitomizing of the
trade statistics of the United States
and the Latin Americas. In the mat
ter of coffee we have opened our ports
to Brazil to the extent OF 1921, S06, 900
since 1872, and received from her only
S156. 1876, 900 cash for own products.
The 1864, 671 900 balance paid her
she has spent in the European mar
ket. This sugar bill proposes in like
manner to open the ports of
America to the sugar crops of
Cuba and Porto-Rico, Spanish
Islands, while Spain declares pro-
hibitive tariff against American flour
and supplies it from the European
markets. Mr.. Blaine farther says:
The charge against the protective
policy which has injured it most is
that its benefits 60 wholly to the
manufacturer and the capitalist and
not at all to the farmer. You and I
we'll know that this is not true, but
still it is the most plausible and
therefore the most hurtful argument
made by the free traders. Here is an
opportunity where the farmer may be
enefited-primarily, undeniably
benefited. Here is an opportunity for
republican congress to open the
markets of 100000 people to the
products of American farmers. Shall
we seize the opportunity or shall we
throw it away?
Our foreign market for breadstuffs
grows narrower. Great Britain is
exerting every nerve to secure her
bread supply from Idnia, and the
rapid expansion of the wheat area In
Russia gives us powerful competitor
in the markets of Europe. It
becomes US, therefore to use every OPP
portunlty for the extension OF our
market to both of the American con-
tinents. With nearly S600,000 900
worth of sugar seeking our market
every year, we shall prove ourselves
most unskiIled legis ators, if we do
not secure large field for the
sale and consumption of our bread
stuffs and provisions. The late con-
ference of American republics proved
the existence of a common desire for
closer relations. Our congress should
take up the work where the in terDa-
tional conference left it. Our field of
commercial development and progress
lies south of US.
If, as Mr.. Blaine so clearly argues,
for the free admission of Brazil
ian coffee in 1872, we had exacted the
free admission of certain American
products free of duty into Brazil, there
would not have been a drainage of
over six hundred and sixty-four mill
lions gold from this country to meet
the adverse balance of trade. The
republican party has never lost by
listening to the voice of Mr.. Blaine's
wisdom; q wisdom in this instance
fully shared by the president of the
nation.
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