The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-17
BLAINE SPEAKS OUT.
A Letter to a Boston Editor Of
Consuming Interest
TO ALL PR0TECTlONlSTS.
He Says Reciprocity IL n Direct BLOW
to tho Theories Of FREQ Traders.
Fallacics OF the Opposition
Shown Up In Great Shape.

Bosros, Sept. lO.Irhe following lsl,e
from Mr.. Blaine has been made public
BAR HAnBon, MAINE, Sept. l5, 1890.
Col. ". ". clapp, Editor Iioslon Journal, Boston.
MY DEAR SIR:-1 um in receipt o
your fa-or askiug II | can attend tht
annual banquet Of tho Boot and Sho.
Club OF Boston in October. You add
that the members are 'in hearty syupa.
thy with my views regarding tho beat
method OF extending American trade,
and would be glad 10 have me- address
them."
| regret that my engagements will not
permit the to accept tho Invitation.
Your club can do great good by coun.
!eracl!ny a certain phass OF New Eug.
land opinion. entertained at homs US
we'll aa iu Washington, an opinion
which ! must regard as In the hishes.
degree unwise and hurttul to New
England interests. New England Is to
receive. in the new tariff the ampiest
protection for every manufacturing In.
dustry within her borders, both great
and small, and 1t will, iu my Judgment,
be both Aine1pedient and Injurious for
her representatives to Disregard meas.
ure which will promote Western inter.
ests. At this very time the boards Of
Trade, the Chambers Of Commerce and
public opinion IN uavana are demand.
lug reciprocal tsads with the United
States.
Certain wise men ask: How can we
sell farm products in South America
when the same things arc produced
there? Cereals are undoubtedly grown
in the sonthernuost parts Of South
America, but the wise men will remsm.
Der that the cereals and sugar do not
grow in the came soil, and the sugar
Of South and Central America
aud the West India islands contain
10 600, 600 people who import the isreesl
part of their breadstuHs.
Another Glass observe that they want
time to study the system. The object
lesson Immediately before US is the trent.
ment OF the eugar question. Shall We
make Lat!n America a gilt OF that trade ?
When We have studied that lesson we
shall be prepared for the second.
The worst proposition Of all is put for.
ward by those who say: "Let US put
sugar on the free list now, and next year
We will take up the subject OF reclpro-
city,"
II understand their logic it is to
make sugar free this year without condi.
tlon, and next year to ask Spain If she
will not kindly consent to grant US re-.
ciprocal trade. Holding the complete
vantage ground ourselves, the proposed
policy trantters the vantage ground to
Spain.
Finally there is ono fact that should
have great weight, aud especially with
protcctiopista. Every free trader in the !
Senate voted against the reciprocity pro.
vision. The free trade papers through |
out the country arc showing determined
hostility to 1t. They know and feel !
that with a system OF reciprocity estab.
lished and growing, their policy Of free
trade receives most serious blow. The
enactment Of reciprocity is the SAFE
guard OF protection. The defeat OF re.
:iprocity is the opportunity Of free
.rade. Yours very respectfully,
JAMES r, Rt4Jsr