Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-17
Jimmy Carroll, Of San Francisco, Knocks
Out Andy Bowen.
TUE COLUMsIAN EXPOSITION.
Secretary Blaine Writes Lengthy
Letter on Reciprocity With
Foreign Countries.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE REooRD-uslos.
RECIPROCITY.
Secretary Blaine Writes Lengthy Letter
on the subject.

| Oh tAiC EuDJtCt.
| BcsToS, September 16th.- In response to
an invitation to the annual banquet of the
| Boot and Shoe CLUB of Boston. Colonel
Clapp, editor of the Journal, has received a
letter from Mr.. Blaine, in which the Secre-
tary of State, referring to portion of the
invitation saying that the members of the
club are in hearty sympathy with his
views regarding the best methods of ex-
tending American trade, regrets that en-
! gagements will not permit him to address
the meeting.
Members of the club, be says, can do q
| great good By counteracting a certain phase
OF New England opinion which he regards
| hurtful to New England interests. New
! England is to receive in the new tariff the
amplest protection tor every manufacturing
! industry within her borders, and il will be,
| in the Judgment of the Secretary of State,
both inexpedient and injurious for the rep
resentatives to disregard a measure which
will promote Western interests.
| Mr.. Blaine referred to letter recently
received from limbs, President of the late
Convention Of Millers at Minneapolis, re-
| ferring to the excessive duties On Ameri-
can -four in Cuba. and stating that the
Americans would be unable to retain any
| part of the Cuban -four trade unless imme-
ediate relief is secure In view of these
facts, says Mr.. Blaine, is it possible that
protectionist Congress can even think of
opening our markets to Cuba's products
free, while allowing great western indus
| try to be absolutely excluded from her
markets by prohibitory tariff?
With reciprocity the West can annually
sell many hundred thousand barrels of
| -four in Cuba and Porto Rico, together with
large mass of other agricultural products.
Without reciprocity she will be driven
| more and more from these markets. Civ
| ing the fullest protection to all Eastern III
terests, as the proposed tariff bill does,
| surely no man of good Judgment certainly
no protectionist of wise forecast, wishes to
expose a Western interest to serious in
! jury, especially when ii IS manifestly easy
TO protect and promote it-manifestly easy,
because at this very time the Boards of
| Trade, Chambers of Commerce and public
| opinion in Havana are demanding recipro-
| cal trade with the United States.
| Certain wise men have asked him, "Can
we sell farm products in South America
when some things are produced there ?"
| Cereals are undoubtedly produced in the
northernmost portions Of South America,
| but wise men will remember that cereals
and sugar do not grow in the same soil,
and sugar countries of South and Gen.
| trail America and the West Indies contain
| forty millions of people, who import the
| largest part of their breadstuffs. Indeed,
the largest portion of the sugar product of
Latin America is at our doors, and we can
greatly enlarge our exchanges there if
| Congress will give US an opportunity for a
reciprocal trade.
| Another class observe that they want
| time to study the system. To this might
reply that the best method of studying the
! &c fo oh ifc
| While studying in the abstract and refusing
to take some object lessons, these gentle
men propose to open our markets to Latin
| American markets free of all charge, with
| out asking the Latin-American countries
| to give US in turn some freedom in their
markets.
| The object lesson before US is the treat
| ment of the sugar question. Shall we
make the Latin-Amercan countries gift
of that trade? When we have studied that
lesson we shall be prepared for second.
| The worst proposition of all is put forth
by those who say. Let us put sugar on the
| free list now, and next year take up the
subject of reciprocity"
If / un erstand their logic, it is to make
sugar free this year without condition, and
next year to ask Spain if she will not
kindly consent to grant US a reciprocal
trade. Holding complete vantage ground
themselves, the proposed policy transfers
| the vantage ground to Spain. Those who
take this ground belong to that class of
careful guardians of property who prepare
a strong lock for the stable after the horse
is gone.
l do hot mean in anything 1 have said
TO imply that reciprocity is only western
interest. 1t will prove beneficial and
profitable both to the farm and shop.
| The many forms by which our business
| interests will be promoted by reciprocity
cannot be known until the active COM
mercial men of the United States have
| developed those forms BIZ investigation
aud experience. We shall not realize the
! full benefit of the policy in day, nor
year; but shall we, therefore, throw away
countless millions of trade in addition to
sixty millions we have already thrown
away, and then ignorantly declare without
il that the system won't work finally?
| There is one fact that should have great
weight, and especially with the protection
lists Every free trader in the Senate voted
against reciprocity, the free trade papers
| throughout the country showing a deter
mined hostility to it. 1t is evident that the
| free trade Senators and free trade papers
! have specific reasons for their course. They
know and feel that with system of reciproc-
| ity established and growing, their policy of
| free trade receives a most serious blow.
] The protectionist who opposes reciprocity
, in the form in which it is now presented
knocks away one of the strongest supports
of his system. The enactment of reciproc-
! ity is the safeguard of protection. Defeat
of reciprocity is the opportunity of free
| trade.