, 1890-10-30
SPOKANE REVIEW. THURSDAY OCTOBER


zee that experiment used II only one or
.wo people were to suffer but II Is a
pretty hard thing to take the dreadful
md terrible chance OF prostrating the
Industries of the country when there are
"a, ,0y0, 900 TO mouths to be fed. [Ap-
plause.
When the tariff of 1S46 was enacted,
there were only 10000, oOo people In the
country. We now have 64,OoO,OO -Four
years after the tariff was enacted, &C.
states, we only had 100000, 600 OF
property. We have now $1,000, 600 of
people and $50, 900, ,0000Oo Of property.
Gentlemen, you cannot trihe with that
numb Der of people and with that mass of
property. We can not experiment AT
this time, and hazard vast interests,
when we could not put the country
where II stands to- day Tor many peni-
tential years thereafter. lApplause.I
RHCIPRoClTY.
Mr.. Schurz condemns the effort In
congress to secure reciprocity of trade
with certain countries. Laughter. |
Free traders have always been telling us
that If we would adopt their theory we
would have now era In this ountry.
On that form OF statement | will not
differ with them. [Laughter.l | think
we should have new era. Congress, at
its last session, adopted now policy.
They looked at south America
and they found that we were
imports 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 and h ides
and dye woods and rubber and other
things from South American and shall
we ask them: If we give you our mar
kets for q pound will you let us enter for
tive shillings2 Applause.
Oh no, Mr.. Shurcz says, that won't do
at all, you must resort to free trade. But
| would like to ask Mr.. Schurz before
this Ohio audience how free trade is GO
ing to let us into their markets without
products. We have been giving Brazil
a market for their nearly sixty millions
of products and they were taking from
us seven, or eight, or nine millions.
Now, s"ppose we declare absolute free
trade, how would that help us with
Brazil2
They have not been buying anything,
and they do not let anything in free.
Thirty. seven million dollars worth of
coffee; fourteen TO sixteen millions of
rubber; several millions of hides, and n
great many dye stufis and wood of that
kind, ali coming into the United States
without shilling of duty. But we want
to send down there some flour, some
lumber, some corn and.wheat, products
of the West, as we'll rs of theE and are
not satisfied as things are going.
Laughter.
Well, we went on and awakened them
to the necessities OF the situation, and we
found they feel just as We do. That the
two nations, dealing with each other,
must deal as two mon do with each
other-fairly, honestly and literally, so
that the advantage shall not always be
on the side of the one man or the one
nation. Applause.
Well, that was reciprocity. 1t is not a
very complex problem. MIR. SChurz
rather intimates that 1t is a strange way
of getting at ways. How strangely mys-
terious reciprocity is! 1t is just as
strange and mysterious as when II Stark
county farmer brings hundred bushels
of wheat to Canton and gets his money
for it, he buys supplies for his family and
goes back home. Laughter.
That Is mysterious process. and very
difficult to understand, yet | am sure
Brazil and all the South American states
understood IL the moment IL was men
toned. | believe we will make very
favorable arrangement to trade with
South America. Take a country like
Venezuela, OF large area, but small pop
ulation-not more than two and half to
three millions. They bring us $40 400, 900
worth of products; but how much of
that is taxed, do you suppose, at the GUS
tom house2 Only 5000.
We send them IA good many things,
but we do not send them one shilling 3
worth that is not taxed by them. That
is not fair. They admit 1t Is not fair,
and they are glad and willing to right t
the matter and place us on reciprocal
ground that will add to the prosperity
oi this country and the prosperity of
thesother, because trade that is so one
sided AS that can not be continued for
ever.
THE FREE RAIDERS ERROR.
When reciprocity was first suggested
the free traders, all or nearly all ap
proved. At that time they thought il
would divide the protectionists in con-
Gress, and they urged it very earnestly.
as long as they thought there would be
some division, as long as they conceived
1t was the dividing line that might OBJ
struct protectionists. Just as soon as
tho free traders found that reciprocity
could not be used to divide the republi-
can party they were all against it
lcheers, every one of them, and row
they are repudiating it and telling you
what a humbug it is, and how little
value there is in it, and how small re.
suit there will be to the people of this
free traders to proclaim its failure ut
present. We are given a year in which
to try it. Let us wait the year and see
what can be done. [Cheers.l
am not here to boast of IL. | am
here to condemn the course of the free
traders who, as long as it promised to
divide the protectionists, were in favor
OF it; but they are set against 1t the
moment they find the protectionists will
not divide. Cheers.
ELECT A PRorEcTioNIsr.
Your duty, gentlemen, if l may sug-
gest 1t, is to elect n protectionist to con-
gress. [Cheers and cries of I'VE will"
That is your interest; that is the inter
est of every district in the county. |
appeal TO this district because of the in
terest at your doorsill and tireside; | ap-
peal to every man in stark county and
in the three other counties that make
up the district. But you have q special
reason. 1t is very great distinction to
any man, distinction to the district
represented ana distinction to the man
him self, to be placed at the head of the
com mittee OF ways and means. and to
lead the house OF represent atives.
Cheers.
That is where Thaddeus Stevens stood
the last eight years of his life; that is
where that great citizen of Ohio, lately
deceased. General Robert c. Schenck
stood for six years and that is where
William Mckinley stands now. [Up-