Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-05
And Says a Point Has Been Reached
Where 1t Becomes a Duty to
Extend Trade.
Our Great Mistake. He Thinks, Has
Been in Repeating Duties With.
out Getting a Return.
He Does Not Believe His Policy Of
Reciprocity Could Be Called
Free Trade.
A Mastery Speech.

WATERv1LLE, Me-, Aug. 29.-A PUBLIC
mass meeting was held tonight, and af:
ter Governor Burleigh made a speech,
President A. W. Small of Colby univer.
sity, introduced as ''the leader of the re.
publican party and the famous advocate
of an interesting and progressive protec-
tive tariff, Hon. James G. Blaine" In
regard to the national questions, Blaine
said: II wish to declare the opinion that
the United States has reached a point
where one of the highest duties is to en-
large the area of its foreign trade. I'm
der the benifcent policy of protection we
have developed a volume of manufactures
which. in many departments, overruns
the demands of the home market. In
the field of agriculture, with the i'm
mense propulsion given in it by agricul-
tural implements, we can do far more
than produce breadstuffs and provisions
for our own people; nor would it be am
bilious destiny for SO great a country as
ours to manufacture only what we can
consume or to produce only what we can
eat. We are already, in many fabrics
and in many products, far beyond that,
and
OUR TREAT DEMAND
is expansion. I mean expansion of trade
with countries where we can find profita-
BILE exchanges. We are not seeking an
nexation of territory. Certainly we do
not desire it, unless it should come by
the v~olition of the people who might ask
the priceless boon of a place under the
flag of the Union. I feel sure that for a
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, l think we should be unwisely
content if we did not seek to engage
in what Young Pitt so we'll termed
ANNEXATION OF TRADE
For nearly thirty years now the United
States has had the great advantage of a
protective tariff, by far the longest I'M
broken period that its industrial policy
has been in force since the federal gov
eminent was organized. Happily the
great majority of II people, without
strict regard 10 party lines, believe that
the results to the American people from
the protective policy has been incalcul-
able, aggregatlng in a quarter of a cen
fury Of national and individual wealth
beyond that ever dreamed OF before in
history af the world. MI. Blaine then
briefly recited what he termed
''THE VICTORIES OF PROTECTION"
and next spoke of a system of reciproci-
ty, not in conflict with the protective
tariff, but supplementary thereto, and
presenting a field of enterprise that will
richly repay the effort and energy of the
American people. We shall find it in
structive and valuable to examine into
the sources of our imports and the desti-
nation of our exports, and to strike a
balance between the two. Take last
year, 1889. In that year our whole ex.
ports to all countries in the three con-
tinents of Europe, Asia and Africa and
to Australia, Canada and Hawaii
amounted, in round numbers, to $685.
100000 and our imports from all those
countries amounted, in round numbers,
to $529,O0O,O0O showing that from that
vast trade we had a balance of 1928, 000,-
600 III our favor, equivalent to that
amount of gold among our people. But
when all accounts are closed, instead of
having $4,000 900 in our favor, we had
a balance of $13,O00,000 against us for
our foreign trade. We must, therefore,
have lost $142, 100000 in our commerce
with countries outside of those to which
[ have referred. Where could we have
found such
A LARGE OVERS BALANCE?
Let me tell you, we lost SAL, 100000 in
Cuba, from which our imports were $52,-
100000 and to which our exports we're
only $11,000,000. Forty-one million is a
pretty large sum to lose in one island in
a single year. In the republic of Brazil
we lost $51, 100000. Our imports from
Brazil were $60,OOO,O 1000; our exports to
Brazil were $9,O00,OO0. In Mexico we
lost $10,0O0,00O. Imports from Mexico
were $21, 100000; our exports we're SILL
100000. 10 sum it all up, our imports
from the countries south of us, both in
sular and continental, on this hemis--
phere, we're $216,O00,00O The balance
against us in our trade with those coun-
tries, therefore, is $142, 10000, exceed
ing our gains from all the rest of the
world. By no figure of speech can we
PLATTER OURSELVES INTO THE BELIEF
that our trade with our American neigh
bors is in a prosperous condition. How
can this state of affairs be remedied?
You have heard a great deal said within
the past ten years by our democratic
friends about the iniquity of the repub-
lican party keeping up the war tariff.
AS a matter of fact the war tariff has not
been kept up, but has been amended over
and over again until the revision of 1883
left scarcely any trace of the actual tariff
that was in operation at the close Of the
war and for a few years afterwards.
During the war we were compelled to tax
almost everything in air, in water, on
earth and under earth. The necessities
Of the government were SO great that we
could allow scarcely anything to be inn
ported without paying tribute, and I
think that no patriotic man can deny