Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-06-14

The Worlds Fair at Chicago in 1S0;
seems likely TO lose large part OF iti
grandeur rs nm international exhibition.
The success Of such an enterprise in the
hiRheet sense require the presence and
no-operation Of the great civilized ma
1ions OF the world. The nations which
have made great advances In the arts
and sciences must be present with their
product, their machinery and other evil
aences Of their skill. Unless this Is the
case worlds fair is impossible. A fair
It may be, but not worlds fair.
McKinley's tariff and q worlds fair
ere two things which can not work to-
Eether. because they are not agreed.
Mckinley practically closes the doors
upon the world, and 1t is idle to expect
the world to come to us with its wares
to take part in q worlds fair. Manu-
facturcrs do not go to the trouble and
expense Of shipping their goods across
che ocean merely to give summer
tourists chance to look ut them. They
mean business; they want to sell their
woods, and for this reason exclusively
they send specimens as advertisements
90 fairs and exhibition in order to make
known what they have for sale.
But where sales are made impossible,
or are greatly hindered by high tariff,
the foreign manufacturer no longer has
any motive for exhibiting his wares. No
feeling of international good will can
tempt him to enter an exhibition in q
country surrounded by the solid masonry
OF a Mckinley Tariff bill.
Arecent dispatch from England makes
It evident that this will be the course
taken there in view Of the tariff legis-
lation now pending in Congress. This
dispatch from London says:
''The Worlds Fair that is to be held
In Chicago made its appearance before
Parliament last night and had chilling
reception. Sir James Ferguson, re-
plying to the question whether Great
Britain would be officially represented
1t Chicago, stated that the matter would
only be determined after review OF
Che probable advantages which might
accrue to British interests. and that 1t
was not unlikely that manufacturers
might to q great extent be deferred
from sending their goods for exhibit
zion II the American customs duties
were such as to preclude their profitable
sale in the United States" Sir James
ferguson was talking about the Nc
Kinley bill. The demands of inter
national courtesy prevented him from
using direct and strong language; but
one can very easily read between the
dimes that he considers the Mckinley
bill such barrier to trade that it would
De folly for English manufacturers to
send their exhibits to Chicago.
All this, of course, is good news for
Mr.. Mckinley; it is simply what he
wants. He boasts that his bill is an
American bill, that it is not a European
DILL.
But in making what he calls an
American bill, may it not be true that
he has gone too far. and has given US
bill that will do more damage to our
farmers, who wish to sell abroad, than
1t will do good to manufacturers, who
wish to sell at home.
A newspaper correspondent in New
York has been talking with some Of the
representatives Of European houses
there on this subject. One of these had
the following to say: THE United
States expect Europe to take all her
surplus agricultural products and such
of her manufactures as can be produced
here cheaper than in Europe, and yet
she proposes to prevent Europe from
selling in her markets the only things
she has to offer in exchange! With
what are they to pay for your wheat and
-four and corn and cotton and canned
meats and vegetables and beef and pork
and all the other things you send to
them II ncs with their manufactured
goods? Do you think Europe is made Of
gold that she can pay such prices as you
have been receiving for these necessaries
of life, and have no compromising trade
with you? How long could that last, do
you think?"
This gentleman then asks what the
ships which take away cur farm produce
will be able to bring us back as return
cargo; and he answers that the ships
will come to us loaded with paupers
''With paupers?" ''Yes! They will be able
TO send you careoes Of pauper laborers
when this bill becomes q law. But for
more desirable freight America will
have no demand. You may-aye, you
~iIl-have more paupers, because they
will be more plenty and will cost you
nothing, and, besides, there is no duty
on them. The European pauper crop
will increase in corresponding ratio with
the decrease OF her export trade to
America. There is no compromising |
market for the loss to Europe Of the
American market, and IL she is TO be
driven out Of that, as is the declared
purpose Of the protection leaders, there
will remain nothing for her but to dis
charge her workmen and close up her