The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-18
Blaine's Great Speech on Recip-
rOc1tV.


United States has reached a point where
one of its highest duties is to enlarge the
area Of its foreign trade. Under the be-
neficent policy of protection we have de-
veloped volume of manufactures which,
in many departments, overruns the de-
mands Of the home market. In the field
of agriculture with the immense propul-
sions given in it by agricultural nipple
ments, we can do far more than produce
breadstuffs and provisions for cur own
people; nor would be an ambitious des-
tiny for SO great a country as ours tOman-
ufacture only what we can consume or
te produce only what we can eat. We
are already in many fabrics and in many
products far beyond that, and our great
demand is expansion. | mean expansion
of trade with countries where we can find
profitable exchanges. We are not seeking
annexation of territory. Certainly we do
not desire it unless it should come by the
vOlitiOn of the people who might ask the
priceless boon Of place under the flag Of
the Union. feel sure that for long
time to come the people OF the United
States will be wisely content with our
present area and not launch upon any
scheme of annexation. AT the same time
| think we should be unwisely content if
we did not seek TO engage in what the
younger Pitt SO we'll termed annexation
OF trade. For nearly thirty years now
the United States has had the great adj
vantage OF a protective tariff, by far the
| longest, unbrOIen period that its indus
| trial policy has been in force since the
| Federal government was organized. Hap
| PLY the great majority Of our people
without strict regard to party lines, be-
| lieVe that the results to the American
people from the proctiVe policy has been
| intellectually benificent, aggregating in q
quarter Of a century of national and indi-
Vidual veal beyond anything ever dream
ed Of before in the history of the world. |
do not mention protection, because | in
tend to speak in reference thereto before
this audience. That would be aneedlcss,
| if not an impertinent effort. | merely
wish to
| PROCLAIM IT'S VICTORIES.
Without protection the United States
would have been poor indeed after the
ravages Of the war from 1861 to 1865.
| With protection every section has flour
ished and pr0spered, grown, and gained.
| Eyen where revenue duties have been laid
with no expectation Of developing indus
tries there have in many instances been
great financial and industrial results
! The heavy duty on silk was levied pri-
marily not for protection but simply 10
secure large revenue from one Of the
| luXuries Of the rich but as consequence
of the duty the silk industry has increased
SO rapidly that it constitutes oue Of the
leading fabrics OF New Jersey, one Of the
largest manufacturing States Of the
| Union. could readily advance other il
| Illustrations to the same effect. AS have
already intmated, am here to speak of
the expansion of our foreign trade, not by
| any novel process, not by any mode that
will shock or disturb home industries not
| by any mode that will invite our people
to rash experiments Or that will launch us
III doubtful and dangerous investments.
What | mean to speak Of briefly is a sys-
tenn Of reciprocity not in cOnf1ic' with a
protective tariff, but supplementary there
to and presenting a field of enterprise that
will richly repay the effort and energy of
the American people. We shall find it
instructive and valuable to examine into
the sources Of our imports and the deSti-
nation of our exports, and to strike bal
ance between the two. Take last yearS-
1889. In that year our whole exports to
all the countries in the three continents of
Europe Asia and Africa, and to Austria
LA Canada and Hawaii, amounted in
round numbers, to $65S, 600, 000 and our
imports from all those countries amount
ed, in round numbers, 1923, 900, 600, show
ing that from that vast trade we had a
balance Of 1929, 900, 900 in our favor.
equivalent to that amount of gold among
our people. But when all the accounts
We're closed, instead Of having $780, 000,-
600 in our favor, we had balance Of
S13, 600, 600 against us from our foreign
trade We must therefore have lost S142, :
600, 000 in our commerce with the cOun-
tries outside of those to which | have re-
ferred Where could we have found such
| a large adverse balance Let me tell
you: S41 ,000 600 in Cuba, from which it's
imports was $50, 900, 600, and to which
our exports were only 81 900. 600 Forty
one million is pretty large sum to lose in
one island in single year. In the Re-
public of Brazil we lost S5l 900, 900. Our
| imports from Brazil were $50, 00O 600: our
exports to Brazil were &c. 100000. In
Mexico we lost $10 900, 000 Imports from
Mexico were $21 900, 600; our exports to
Mexico were 81 900, 0O0 To sum it all
up, our imports to countries south of us,
| both insular and continental on this hem
| lSDlefe, were p1lO, UUO, OOO; our Elk pOfIS TO
them were $74 100000,
THE BALANCE AGAINST US
| in our trade with these countries, there
| therefore, is $142, 000O00 exceeding our
gains from all the rest of the world by
| 1913, 000 600. By no figure of speech can
we tiatter ourselves into the belief that
our trade with our American neighbors is
in q prosperous condition. How can this
statement of affairs be remedied ? Yon
have heard great deal said within the
past ten years by our Democratic friends
about the iniquity Of the Republican par
ty keeping up the war tariff. AS a mat
ter of fact the war tariff has not been kept
up, but has been amended over and over
again until the revision of 1888 left
scarcely trace of the actual tariff that
was in operation at the close OF the war
and for few years afterward. During
the war we were compelled to tax almost
everything in the air, in the water, on the
earth, and under the earth. The necessi-
ties of the government were SO great that
we could allow scarcely anything to be
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