Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-30

to the census OF the United States, we
had only $7,O00,OOO,0OO Of property.
We now have 64,0OO,OOO people and
60,o0o,00o,000 Of property. Gentle
men, you cannot sport with that number
OF people and that mass Of property.
We cannot experiment at this time and
hazard vast interests when we could not
put the country where it stands today
for ten penitential years thereafter. Mr..
Schurz condemns the effort of congress
to secure reciprocity Of trade with GER
tain countries. Free traders have al
ways been telling us that il we would
adopt their theory we would have new
era in the country. On that form OF
statement will not differ with them. I
think we should have new era. Con-
gress at its last session concluded to
adopt new policy. They looked at
South America and they found that we
were receiving from those people vast i'm
ports and exporting little to them. The
question was, shall we repeal the duty
on sugar and give that to South America
in addition to coffee, hides and dye,
woods and rubber, and other things from
South America, and shall we ask them,
if we give you our markets for pound
to let us enter yours for few shillings?
'Oh, no. Mr.. Schurz says, that won't do
at all. You must resort to free trade
But I would like to ask Mr.. Schurz, be-
fore this Ohio audience, how free trade
is going to let us into their markets with
our products? We have been giving
Brazil market for nearly $60,0O0,000
of their products and they were taking
from us 100000 or $s,0OO,OO0 or 3d.
100000. Now, suppose we declare alb
solute free trade. How would that help
us with Brazils They have not been
buying anything and they do not let
anything in free. Thirty-six million
dollars worth of coffee, $14,OOO,00O to
SIG, 100000 of rubber, several millions
OF hides and great many dye stuffs all
coming into the United States without a
shilling of duty. But we want to send
down there some -four, some lumber,
some corn and wheat, products of the
west as we'll as the east, and they are not
satisfied with the way things are going
Well, we went on and awakened them to
the necessity of the situation and we
found that they feel just as we do-that
two nations dealing with each other must
deal as two men do with each other
fairly, honestly, iberally-so that the
advantage shall not always be on the
side of one man or nation. Well that
was reciprocity. 1t is not very COM
pick problem. Mr.. Schurz rather init
mates, as a strange way Of getting at
things, how strangely mysterious reci-
prooity is. It is just as strange and
mysterious as when a Starke county
farmer brings 100 bushels of wheat to
Canton, gets his money for it, buys sup
plies for his family and goes back home.
That is the mysterious process and very
difficult to understand. Yet T am sure
that Brazil and all the South American
states understood it the moment it was
mentioned. I believe that we will make
a very favorable agreement to trade with
South America. Take country like
Venezuela, of large area but small pop
ulation-- not more than 100000 to g.
100000. They bring us $1O,4OO,OOO
worth of products. But how much of
that is taxed, do you suppose, at the
custom houre? Only $4,000. Every
cent of that except $4,000 escapes taxa
ton. We send them good many things
but we do not send them one shilling's
worth that is not taxed. That is not
fair. They admit that it is not fair and
are glad and willing to right the matter
and place us on reciprocal ground that
will be to the prosperity of this country
and the prosperity of the other because
trades so one-sided as that cannot be
continued forever. When reciprocity
was first suggested the free traders, all,
or nearly all, approved it. At that time
they thought it would divide the protec-
tionists in congress, and they urged il
very earnestly SO long as they thought
there would be some division, SO long as
they conceived that it was a dividing
line that might obstruct the protection
lists. Just as soon as the free traders
found that reciprocity could not be used
to divide the republican party, they were
all against it, every one of them, and
now they are repudiating it and telling
you what humbug it is and how little
value there is in it, and how small the
result will be to the people of this coun-
try with it. 1t is not wise for free
traders to proclaim it failure at pres
emit. We are given year in which to
try it. Let us wait year and see what
can be done. am not here to boast of
it. am here to condemn the course OF
free traders who, SO long as it promised
to divide the protectionists. were in favor