The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-22
BEGINNING OF RECIPROCITY.
It Marks the Introduction of Great
Revolution in Trade.

1t Marks the Introduction of Great
Revolution in Trade.
The dispatches of yesterday March
5D stated that the treaty for reciprocal
;rade between the United States and
Brazil goes into effect to-day. This
marks the beginning of great revolu-
ton in trade, and it has been achieved
in spite of determined opposition from
The German and English merchants in
Brazil who knew we'll that if carried
out it would practically exclude them
from that country, Which from this time !
forth will be the recipient of a golden
stream of American products, manu-
featuring as we'll as agricultural. 1t is
N accordance with the eternal fitness of
5hings that our arrangements for recip-
rocal trade should be first made with
Brazil, as that is the greatest of all the
countries of this hemisphere, next to
the United States, and can properly
Lead the flock.
The policy of Mr.. Blaine, thus happi-
~ begun. will be pursued till all the
nations of the American continent have
come in, not excepting our neighbors
On the north, who, having common
tongue, and to large extent the same
ancestry, will naturally have with us
common tariff, while all the rest will
simply send us their non-competitive
products and take from us as many of
ours as the possibilities of their reve-
nue. systems will admit. The policy
inaugurated to-day may fifty be de-
scribed as all imperial one in its scope,
though destitute of the imperial form
of government. 1t embraces in its
range the entire western world, with a
population of 3O,OOO,OoO souls, half of
whom are in the United States. BY the
close of the fourth century from the
date of its discovery this continent will
be practically independent of the old
world.
One important step to be taken to-
wards the achieving of this position is
the building of the Nicaragua canal,
which, when completed, will greatly
facilitate and extend trade and travel
between the eastern and western
coasts of this hemisphere, and make it
as easy to reach Chile and Peru as it
| now is to communicate with Brazil and
Arge ntina. Another step will be the
extension of the railroad system
through the length of the continent,
with spurs to connect with the dwell
ers on the shores of both oceans. IN
| furtherance of the same plan the
United States is now going ahead with
the construction of a great navy, which
will be the navy of the western world.
For obvious reasons the other powers
cannot afford to build and maintain
warships as cheaply as we can, and
thus the United States will have to as
sumo and attend to the naval protec-
ton of the entire continent, which will
rest secure from unwarrantable inter
ference beneath the folds of our flag.
Under this our merchant marine will
flourish as it never did yet in the
palmiest days of our history and the
United States will become greatest in
united family of nations, who can
say for themselves collectively: 1.-The
whole sea-bounded continent is ours"
This accomplished, we shall have for
the new world purely distinctive pol.
icy, one which will declare the west
ern world to be a suficiency unto it.
self, and assert it's utter independence
of the old in all things, commercially
and in a manufacturing sense as well
as politically. We shall form a union
of the republics of the world, acting
together. by and for themselves, and
leaving the despotisms of Asia and
the mixed governmental systems of Eu
rope to wrestle with the problems OF
progress and prosperity apart from us
This great congress of republics will
pursue an absolute free trade in al
non-competitive products, while eacf
will protect it's own wage scale agains
the rest of the world in regard to al
competitive productions, whether o
the soil or the factory. Then the er;
of McKinleyism, with it's Chinese wal
and trust-breeding features, will hav'
to 60, being replaced by this create
and grander foreign policy of reciprocal
trade. to the full extent that it
beneficial, and mutual non-interferenc
in those directions where competition
would tend to repress energy at home
The alliance of states will be an elevat
ing and ennobling one, free from tn
elements which hamper a communit
in the effort to improve its own oppor
tunities to the utmost extent that
compatible with the welfare of other
who inhabit the same continent.-Ch
cago Tribune (rep.).