The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-20
PROTECTIVE RECIPROCITY.

The distinguished secretary Of state has
been persuaded to write letter to an Ohio
editor explaining how he came to withdraw
tis objections to the MCKINLEY tariff act
There Is nothing new in what he says
While the caucus tariff bill was pending in
the Senate, after passing the House, Mr..
BLAINE wrote to ''Dear Mr.. FRYE" for the
purpose of securing an amendment looking
to the removal of the tariff on American
flour and pork imported into Cuba and the
other Spanish islands, in consideration of
our removing the tariff on sugar from
these islands. Whatever Mr.. B. may say
now, there was cynical sneer in the epis-
tie at the stupidity which failed to provide
for this in the body of the bill. Il was a
hostile shot at MCKINLEY and the House
Republicans, revealing the infrmity of the
act, and striking it between wind and
water. Under the pretense of assisting
MCKINLEY now, in his campaign for the
governorship of Ohio, Mr.. BLAINE is de-
sirous that the public shall know it was he,
the Maine statesman, who saved that par
ticular measure from obloquy and disgrace.
1t is cheerful sign that from the ad-
iournment of Congress last year to the
present time, the whole intellectual and
tactical strength of the Republican party
has been engaged in defending and finding
excuses for the Mckinley bill. From going
into the presidential canvass of 1883 with
the banner of protection full high advanced
and defiant, they are crawling on their
hands and knees and declaring that their
pet policy really means the same as free
trsde. Had the elections of last fall gone
their way, they would now be as aggressive
and insolent as ever; but the knowledge
that the people have decreed the prohibition
tariff shall be no more, has developed a
have been stayed.
MIR. BLAINE has made no change in mis-
protection ideas. To his dear Mr.. FRYE
Re said: al don't doubt that in many re.
spects the tariff bill pending in the Senate
is a Just measure, and that most of iii
promises are IN accordance with the wist
policy of protection" No one believes tina
the secretary has changed or modified his
views in that regard. Indeed, his So called
reciprocity scheme, limited and unequal il
its application as it is, is in pursuance o
the greater part of his public life. This il
the policy of promoting the prosperity O.
the northeastern section at the expense
of all other sections of the country. Tn,
very reciprocity he writes about to the
OHIO editor is intended to give Northwest
erR manufacturers free trade in th
cheap foreign materials they use in thei
industries; for it, is curious fact tina
whilst his proposition extends to severa
countries whose exports compete with tn
products of western farms, it carefully ex
cludes all countries whose exports woul
compete with northeastern manufacturers
1t is not permitted US TO have free exchang
with peoples whose products would com
In competition with our own. The ives
and south must bear all the burdens Of
general policy of protection and all til
evils of special reciprocity-and the favore
northeast must monopolize whateve
special benefits are to be got out of either