San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-25
RECIPROCITY CERTAIN.


Reciprocity measures with Mexico
and the South Americas will have
the cordial support of cabinet and a
majority of congress. There is but
one dissenting voice in the cabinet,
and that not very pronounced one,
against the measure. In it lies the
largest relief for the United States.
Every year the truth becomes more
plain that the real market for Ameri-
ca is in America. The conversion of
India and Egypt and Persia into vast
corn, wheat and cotton districts is
destined to close the corn and wheat
and cotton markets of Europe to these
American staples in few years. The
increase of manufacturing industries
in the United States must be largely
relied on as affording our
farmers the best and surest mar
kets for agricultural product.
The opening of the Congo country
will in time add its volume of produc-
tioL to that of Asia and Egypt and
render still more certain the closing
out of our produce from the old world
markets. The demand for manufac-
tured goods will remain. That de-
mand we may not be permitted to
supply under our protective policy,
but the gain we would secure by
shutting out the low-priced competi-
tions of European labor would more
than compensate. The true policy is
to cultivate the closest relations with
Mexico aud the Spanish Americas,
receiving from them sugar, coffee and
tropical products in return for
such food staples as they do
not furnish, and opening for
orr manufactured goods the market
that they can supply most profitably
and advantageously. That this is
the policy of the administration to
which the republican party will COM
NIT itself fully and irrevocably before
another general election, cannot be
doubted by those who consider the
trend of public sentiment. This is
not departure from the idea of pro-
lection to American industries and
labor. 1t is in direct line with it, and
when in operation, will largely tend
to stimulate manufacturing IN the
United States. The manufacturer is
the true absorber of agricultural pro-
duct, and with market for manufac-
tured goods opened wide and yearly in
creasing through reciprocity exchang-
es, this country would be more indie
pendent of the old world than she has
ever dreamed of. Our prices would
not be fixed in Liverpool and our
shippers would not be dependents
upon the decisions of old-world spec
ulators. To Texas the policy of Amer
lean reciprocity, and this means Mex
lean reciprocity first and most impor-
tant, would come most acceptably. 1t
WOulu 5o OLA euC
agricultural and mechanical of this
state, as to usher in q new era. With
ocean vessels reaching the open ports
of this state and Mexico and the
South and Central Americas open to
our products, and our ports open to
r eceive the tropical consignments of
that region, Texas would blossom as
the rose. She would be the highway
for the great north and south lines of
traffic and communication.
INDIA, which few years ago did
not grow sufficient wheat for her own
consumption, is now the third country
of the world in the volume of her
wheat expectations. Russia comes
first, the United States second and
India third. In ten years more India
will export more wheat than any
country on the face of the globe and
the United States will be shut out of
the wheat markets of the old world.
Her market must be on the western
l a