The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-12
B0B-TAILED RECIPROCITY.

Nobody believes that Mr.. JAMES G.
BLAINE is any less Of high tariff man and
protectionist than he was when he tele-
graphed from abroad mis- famous manifesto
in answer to President CLEvELAND's rev.
enue reform message. In fact he docs not
pretend to be. He claims reciprocity to be
nero adjunct and annex of protective
tariff rates, intended to apply only where
advantages may follow to Americans.
That" says one of our local contempora
ries, with charming guilelessness, sis re-
ciprocity, and mind you, the products ad
mitted free are of a kind that do not COM
pete with American industries" OF
coarse not. But why not tell the whole
story, namely, that the articles
to be admitted free by the
republics of Central and South
America are the articles produced by our
protected manufacturers, SO that the PEG
pie of those countries can buy them cheaper
than our own people cana The manufac
turers of the United States, whilst requir-
| ing our citizens to pay 80 or go per cent.
| duty to foreign manufacturers, or else buy
the home articles, demand that the United
States government shall help them to COM
pete in South and Central America with
the very commodities that are excluded
here by the protective tariff. Reciprocity,
as advocated by Mr.. BLAINE, will not al
low our people to trade on equal terms with
England, France and Germany, because
they are manufacturing countries; but he
does not object to our agricultural interests
being sacrificed, if thereby the northeast
can get cheap wool, hides, gram, cattle and
slaug htered meat, and simultaneously OBJ.
tain large outside market for its man
ufactures.
The same paper from which we have
already quoted says:
Mr.. BLAINE announced the principle tina
those governments central and Soutt
America] should be compelled to give GU
products some advantages In return for the
free admission of theirs at our ports; and whel
, the MCKINLEY bill was finally passed it con
tanned a provision authorizing the President Il
retaliate against those countries unless the.
should enter into a reciprocal arrangement.
MIR. ALDRICH's amendment to the Nc
KINLEY bill avowed desire for reciprocal
free trade with countries producing GER
tain articles either not produced or no
sufficiently produced in the United States
and it proposed to extort it by threatenin.
to levy enormous additional taxes on-Ou
olUn people! The articles mentioned ar
:. sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides. Al
these were already free, except sugar; bu
the ALDRICH annex provided that, If an.
countries producing them should declin
!, | the reciprocity scheme, the President wa
:. to impose a tax of three cents per poun
on coffee and ten cents per pound on tea
= In short, 1t said to Brazil, Cuba, China an
=, Japan that If they refused free trade w
= would make our own people pay more tina
we paid oefore-that we would have fre
trade if it cost US $4,000. 900 or $40, 900, 90
a year,
In all the correspondence we see from tn
lower half of this continent, wherever tn
:. scheme of reciprocity is favored, stress
y put upon the benefits to accrue there frol
the free entry of glassware, woodenware
metal goods, boots and shoes, harness, etc
). but never a word in reference to th
''bushel of wheat nor barrel of pork" tina
Mr.. BLAINE brandished before the eyes {
. western farmers, nor, indeed, any othe
:. article produced on western farms.
J. Hence the Republican reciprocity schem
is one that doesn't reciprocate. 1t is tn
old story of "you take the buzzard and II
>. take the turkey, or rll take the turkey an
= you take the buzzard.'