Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-09-11
Senator Hale on Reciprocity.

Senator Hale has rendered the country
and the Republican party an important ser
vice in bringing together great body OF
testimony and of facts In support of the
| broader protection which Secretary Blaine
| urges. Industrious misrepresentation
have led many to suppose that this policy
would in some way involve abandonment
| or weakening of Protection. Senator Hale
| quotes an editorial of The Tribune. show.
| ing that removal of purely revenue duties
| in exchange for free admission Of Ameri-
can products into foreign markets is IN
fact an extension and broadening of the
| protective policy. Hitherto Protection has
| depended for efficiency exclusively upon
duties which restrict 'oreign competition
| in American markets. The duties imposed
for revenue only have not contributed In
the slightest degree To the upbuilding Of
home industries or the enlargement of de
mand for American labor. The proposal
Is to make those duties also-their re
moval as TO products OF some States aud
their retention as 10 products Of Others
contribute powerfully to enlarge the mar
ket for American products and the de-
mand for American labor
senator Hale shows that this l. not an
innovation or an experiment lacking the
sanction of Republican authority He
quotes At length from President Arthur
and Secretary Frehnghuvsen. showing
that treaties which they neg atiated. " neither
altogether wise In details or not. were in.
tended 70 open foreign market. for Ameri.
can products by means OF removal or II.
duction of duties on things which ,hi~
country cannot supply hy it, own labor
The treaty negotiated with Spain was in
tended - have aud in the main would
have bad ,ii> effect The report Of Rep
re>entative Hewitt In favor of the treat,
negotiated With Mexico i also quoted
Srnator Hale then cites the language Of
President Harrison aud Secretary Blaine
To show how carefully guarded and strictly
protective In character Is the proposal
they favor.
The array Of facts presented by senator
Hale can be appreciated only hy those
who examine them with some care From
the West Indies. Central and south Amer
lea this country ha. imported in ten year,
pr pducts valued at one thousand ivs hun
drrd and twenty nine millions while its
exports 10 those countries have been in
value only i've hundred aud twenty seven
millions. 80 that An average exceeding one
hundred millions a ycar has been paid in
goid or goods tn Europe la settlement for
goods brought by u from those countries
The i5,t 4.,ss3 Inhabitants Of the.. couit-
tries consume largely OF thing. which the
nited States produces, but under existing
Laws are led 10 purchase them mainl, from
Europe
The policy which senator Hale advo-
Gates would secure "A larger part Of this
trade in exchange for removal Of purely
revenue duties. Since Protection has now
made this country 20 prosperous that the
a. a
no longer needed and ha, so developed
our manufactures that they are able to
supply. not only the wants of our own
people, but the wants Of millions besides.
II Is proposed 20 open larger markets for
those manufactures through the removal
OF purely revenue duties. Senator Hale
quotes high authority for the statement
that Brazil, which now produces 600 900
tons Of sugar, could in three wears send to
this country enough To apply its whole
consumption. The readiness OF Brazil to
accept the policy embodied By Senator
Aidrlch in his proposed amendment which
senator Hale judiciously approves as Is
senlallv the same with his own resolution
in principle, has been declared BY the Bra
lillian Envoy IN this country
Attentive observers will not fail to see
that the Inducements offered by the United
states to Brazil. or To other sugar. grow
Ing countries of Central or South America.
would be materially diminished if Spain |
should make satisfactory arrangements on |
behalf Of her West India islands But !
that is matter with which diplomst.y can
deal. The essential thing j. to establish
the principle that this Nation is now pres
pared TO use retention or remission Of lie
purely revenue duties in order 10 secur-
broader protection for American labor -
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