Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-14
A PuZZLER.
What Republican Papers Think OF Blaine
A Puxxler For Protectionists-

What Republican Papers Think OF Blaine
Puxxler For Protectionists-
Mr.. Blaine's letter to Senator Frye on
the subject of reciprocal trade relations
with South America and the islands of
Cuba and Porto Rico. has called out a
variety of views from the Republican
editors The letter evidently puzzles
them Some of them treat it like q
pointer dog when he finds a box-turtie;
he frisks around, throws up his tail,
cocks his ears, takes sniff or two and
wonders what on earth it can be.
The curious thing about the matter is
that some of the most hide bound pro-
tectionist papers who always stand in
horror of British free-trade," applaud
the letter as exhibiting qualities Of far
sighted statesmanship
That stalwart Republican Journal, the
Cincinnati commandments, says:
''Mr. Blaine's letter on the tariff, in
which he suggests an opportunity of
opening the markets of forty million OF
farmers, is of vast public importance,
and will command great attention
The Chicago Tribune sees the impor-
lance of Blaine's policy as tending to
give our farmers wider market The
Tribune does not believe in the protec-
zionist notion that the home market is
enough. 1t says: ''Mr. Blaine's method
of protecting the farmer is by opening
new markets. which will take his sur
plus crops, and thus increase the value
of all he raises Were corn brought
into this country in immense quantities
MIR. Blaine would put duties on it to
protect the farmer. As it is not, he
seeks for more markets for surplus corn
as the best way of protecting him. The
McKinleyites have but one medicine
warranted to cure every ailment, and
that is high taxation of consumers"
The Tribune does not believe in trying
to humbug the farmers, after the Nc
Kinley fashion, by putting a duty on
corn
The New Haven Comm Palladium
insists that Mr.. Blaine's significant
utterances, urging the securing of more
| foreign markets, should be crystallized
into law. To fail to do this, and to fail
| to bring the bill more into the shape
| which the people expected and desired,
| is to give free rein to the agitation
| which Mr.. Blaine notes-an agitation
which, if unchecked. has defeat for us
in store as surely as night follows day."
And Senator Hawley's paper, the Hart
ford Courant thinks that Blaine has
struck out in a line of development of
American trade which is full of promise
if it can be followed
| The Rochester IN. W Democrat q
Republican paper Notwithstanding its
name, agrees with Blaine that 1.-The
present bill is unjust to the American
farmer, in that it neglects to guard his
interests in foreign markets, although
abundant opportunity is offered
The Pittsburgh (Pa-) Chronicle says:
Secretary Blaine points out very clear
ly some of the great mistakes of recent
years in our commercial policy, as a
warning against the blunder of admit
ting sugar free of duty without exact
ing some concessions from the for
eign producers by way of reciprocity
And the Philadelphia Press. one of the
most hide-bound of all the bound
protectionist papers. grows enthusiastic
over the scheme for continental free
trade. 1t says: "Reciprocity, once be-
gun, will spread over che hemisphere
At stroke the United State will step
into a great trade, equal to that OF In
| dia."
But there are some discordant notes
The Boston Advertiser, for example,
| which thinks the letter more strange
| every time it is read" is forced to
think that Mr.. Blaine has gone too fan
in assuming that under the proposes
tariff revision any trade relations can
be entered into with the South Ameri-
can republics which will, in his words.
open the market for another bushel OF
wheat and another barrel of pork. '''
At any rate, Blaine has done the
friends of low tariff an incalculable
service in enforcing their views in the
high places of his party. He has hidden
the leaven in the meal. and it has n
ready begun to work.