St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-26
Protective Tariff Enacted.


this country, which lasted in greater or
less degree until there was
Protective Tariff Enacted.
You never heard of free-trade tariff
coming to the relief of the people. The
only three times that the people of the
United States tried free-trade tariff
they fell into adversely until a protect
i've tariff came to the relief of the peo-
pie. Some people want us to let
the protective tariff go by in order to
make the experiment again. Well.
would like to see that experiment tried.
if only one or two people were TO Suf
fer, but it is pretty hard thing to take
the dreadful and terrible chance of
prOstrating the industries of the coun-
try. when there are sixty-four millions
of mouths to be fed. When the tariff of
1916 was enacted there were only twenty
millions of people in the country. We
now have SiXty-fOur millions. -Four
years after the tariff was enacted, ac
cording to the census of the United
States. we only had seven thousand
millions of property. We now have
siXty-four millions of people and sixty
thousand millions of property. Gentle
men, you cannot sport with that
number Of people and with that mass
of property. We cannot experiment
even at this time and hazard the vast
interests when we could not put the
country where it stands to-day for ten
penitential years thereafter. MIR.
SchurZ condemns the effort of congress
to secure reciprocity of trade with GER
tain countries. The free traders have
always been telling US that if we would
adopt their theory we would have
New Era i'm This Country.
On that form of statement | will not
differ from them. l think we should
have new era. Congress at its last
session concluded to adopt new policy.
They looked at South America and they
found thatWe were receiving from those
people vast imports and exporting little
10 them. The question was, shall we re-
peal the duty on sugar and give that to
South America, in addition TO the coffee
ard the hides and the dye woods and
the rubber and the other things from
South America. and shall we ask those
men if we give you our markets for the
pound to let US enter theirs for few
shillings! Oh, no. Mr.. SchurZ says,
that won't do at all. lou must resort
to free trade; but [ would like to ask
Mr.. SchurZ. before this Ohio audience,
how free trade is going to let us into
their markets with our products. We
have been giving Brazil market for
their nearly $4,000. 900 of products and
they were taking from us S7,0OU,000 or
SS,o00,000 or S9,000.000. Now, suppose
we declared absolute free trade. How
would that help us with Brazil?
They have not been buying any
thing and they do not let anything
in free. Thlrtv-siX millions of dOlarSi
nT IN ci.ytn
millions of rubber, several millions of
hides and great many dye stutfs and
wood of that kind, all coming into the
United States without shilling of
duty, but we want to send down there
some flour. some lumber, some corn and
wheat. the products of the West as well
as of the East. and are not satisfied as
things we're going. Well, we went on
and awakened them to the necessities
of the situation, and we found that they
Feel Just as We Do
that two nations dealing with each other
must deal as two men do with each
other, fairly, honestly, literally; so that
the advantage shall not always be on
the side of the one man or on the side of
the one nation. Well, that was reci-
procity. 1t is not very complex prob
lem. Mr.. Schurz rather intimates it is a
strange way of getting at things. How
strangely mysterious reciprocity is!
That is just as strange and mysterious
as when Stark county farmer brings
in hundred bushels of wheat to Can
ton, gets his money for 1t, buys sup
plies for his family any goes back home.
That is mysterious process and very
difficult to understand. Yet l am
sure that Brazil and all the
South American states understand
1t the moment it was mentioned. Yet [
am sure. and | speak with great candor
when say that | believe that we will
make very favorable arrangement to
trade with South America. Take a
country like Venezuela. of large area
but small population, not more than
two and half to three millions. They
bring us SO, 100000 wOrtS of products.
But how much of that is taxed. do you
suppose, at the custom house? only
$4,000. Every cent of that except IS, ,OO0
escapes taxation. We send them a good
many things. but we do not send them
Shilling'S worth that is not taxed by
them. That is not fair. They admit
that it is not fair, and they are glad and
willing 10 right the matter and place US
on reciprocal ground that will be
to the prosperity OF this country and to
the prosperity of the other. Because a
trade that is so one-sided as that cannot
be continued forever. have not seen
an approval from any free trade coun-
try of the reciprocity idea that has stood
the test for three months. When reclp-
rocity was first suggested. the free trad
ers all, or nearly ali. approved. AT that
time they thought it would
Divide the PFOtectiOnists
in congress. and they urged it very earn
estly, as long as they thought there
would be some division, as long as they
conceived that it was the dividing line
that might obstruct the protectionists.
These free traders thought they heard
little crack: they thought that the Re.
publican partywould be stampeded. Now
the Republicans are not frightened by a
| crack. As long as the free traders
thought that there would be division
in the Republican party they encour-
aged reciprocity. but very soon they
| found that the Republican party was
not in the habit Uf having divisions in
| its ranks. The ranks closed up and the
reciprocity provision was adopted by
| the Republican congress. just as soon
as the free traders found that recipro-
| city could not be used to divide the Re-
| publican party they were all against it,
| every one OF them: and now they are
repudiating it and telling you what a
humbug it is. and how little value there
| is in it, and how small a result there will
be to the people of this country from it.
Well, it is never wise TO make a
! prediction before an event. 1t is not
wise for the free traders 10 proclaim its
failure at present. l don't propose to
| say anything about its success. We
are given year in which to try it. Let
us wait year and see what can be
| done. | am not here to boast of it: !
am here to condemn the course of the
free traders. who. as long as it promised
| to divide protectionists, were in favor
| of it, but who are set against it the
moment they find protectionists will
not divide. Your duty, gentlemen, if
may suggest it, is TO elect protection.
| iSt to congress.
That Is Your Interest.
that is the interest of every district in
the country, and l appeal to this dis
trict because of the interests at your
doorsilI and fireside; l appeal to every
man in Satak and in the three other