Iron County register., 1890-12-04
A JUGGLER OF ARGUMENTS.

A JUGGlER OF ARGUMENTS
The Champion of Reciprocity Plays a
CART which Is Not "a Trump.
Mr.. Blaine shows mis- usual tact in
causing the publication of his reciproc-
ity letter OF June ~, which was sup
pressed by the President. 1t abounds
in sound Democratic arguments against
the Nc ElnlCy bill and in favor of a
wider commercial freedom and, though,
in his characteristic way, Mr.. Blaine
perverts these to bolster up the dishon-
est scheme of giving the public money
as pre- ants to steamship corporations,
they s,rve nevertheless to complete his
acquii II from respons biiity for the Nc
Kinle folly, and thus serve to strength
en- hi prospects for the Republican
PresiC initial nomination.
Mr.. Blaine demonstrates with re-
mark; Die clearncss that reciprocity
with Germany and France is ab-
solut Y essential for the prosperity
of t. > West in particular and of the
count 2 in general. 1t s true that he
uses uba and the Argentine Republic
in / king the argument. This is
met i well known among rhetoricians
1t is mat of making the hardest demon
strat N, so that the rest will appea:
from it in the light of a self-evident
trutl. When Mr.. Blaine shows how
high tariff kills our trade with Cuba
and Buenos Ayres, he shows in doing
so th..t it kills it with France and Ger
man: also. And every argument he
max J in demonstrating that we
neeC reciprocity with the handful of
peol,e g in Cuba applies with added force
to slow the vital necessity of eciprOcity
with the millions in Germany and
France who but for the high tariff sys-
TEN would take our wheat, pork and
othcr agricultural products, paying us
high prices for them in cheap goods
such as are needed by all classes of our
people-such as can not be had, now,
however, except at the exorbitant Nc
Kinley rates.
In one of tho tables he gives, Mr..
Blaine shows in 4 striking way the
vital necessity of reciprocity with
France and Germany. We extract it
with his comments.
Excepting raw cotton our four largest cx-
ports during the last fiscal year bread
IFS, provisions, lefined petroleum and lum-
ter.
The following statement shows the total ex-
ports or cdGh OF SAID articles IN lNS9 a2u the
proportion exported to Latin America
Erporel
Total ETpo"ts. I'm. r,cH.
BrcadStufTs .............S1 S123. .S16433 So 1913 =2S
Provisions ...-..... lt4,l:25 25o..5.3
Refined petroleum 4lS1424 29iS l49
Wood and lumber......-. 26,9U7, ,lGI 5.03J,SS6
These figures should be closely studied 1t
would be difficult to understand. but fo- the ex-
pla1ations given in the conference, why. out of
the $500, 0c0O00 of staples exported from this
country. only SIS 900 should be consumed in
all Latin America with its population of So
OC0 100 people, when the United States is the
only source of supply for these articles, which
ere regarded by US as the necessaries Of life.
INV one who knows that, because of
England's policy of complete CONNER
ciai reciprocity, that country alone
takes over half of our entire exports
will understand Mr.. Blaine's point
Our exports of breadstuffs to England
alone being thus immensely in excess
of our breadstuf exports to all South
America, it is demonstrated that under
reciprocity Germany, which last year
took only eleven dollars worth (eight
bushels) of our wheat and shut out our
pork. would take from us at the same
rate with England. The same demon
stration applies with equal clearness in
the case of France.
In arguing for numerical reciproci-
ty with countries which would pay for
our goods in wool, hides and other ar
ticles competing with the West, Mr..
Blaine is striking the entire Republican
system of commercial restriction at it's
weakest point. For while New En-
gland does not need trade with En-
gland, Germany and France, the West
will be permanently impoverished if
that trade is much longer denied.
Mr. Blaine is doing good work against
the folly of commercial restriction
through nigh taxes. OF course he is
greatly hampered by his New England
residence and his Republican alliances,
but he is doing very we'll under the cir
Observation-Disclosures than any other Re
publican alive could do in his place.
Let him keep on, and with the aid he
will receive from the Democratic party
the Chinese system of high tariff seclu-
sion will be ovcrthrown.
There will then be no need to use the
Government in casting anchors TO wind
ward for pet steamship corporations,
for the ports of the world Will then be
filled with unsubsidized American YES
sells. and a Democratic President and
Secretary of State will send no MINERS
abroad to authorize kidnapping par ties
to board them-St. Louis Republic.