Iron County register., 1891-04-09
RECIPROCITY HAS BEGUN.
1t Marks the Introduction of Great
Revolution in Irade.


Revolution in Trade.
The dispatches OF yesterday March
81 stated that the treaty for reciprocal
trade 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 well that if carried
out it would practically exclude them
from that country, which from this time
forth viii be the recipient of a golden
stream of American products, manu-
featuring as well as agricultural. 1t is
in accordance with the eternal fitness of
things 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 MIR. Blaine. thus happi-
ly begun. will be pursued till all the
nations of the American continent have
come in, not excepting our neighbors
on the north, who, having a common
tongue, and to large extent the same
ancestry, will naturally have with us a
common tariff, while all the rest will
81 mply send US their non-competitive
products and take from us as many of
ours as the possibilities of their reve-
ME systems will admit. The policy
inaugurated to-day may fifty be de-
scribed as an 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 100000 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 com municate 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
q united family of nations, who can
saw for themselves collectively; The
| whole sea-bounded continent IS ours
This accomplished. we shall have for
the new world a purely distinctive pol
| lev, one which will declare the west
| ern world to be a sutiiciency unto it
| self. and assert its utter independence
| of the old in all things, commercially
| and in manufacturing sense as well
| as politically. We shall form 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 all
| non-competitive products, while each
will protect it's own wage scale against
| the rest of the world in regard to all
competitive productions. whether OF
the soil or the factory. Then the era
of McKinleyisrn, with its Chinese wall
and trust-breeding features. will have
TO go, being replaced by this greater
and grander foreign policy OF reciprocal
trade. to the full extent that 1t Is
beneficial, and mutual non-interference
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 the
| clements which hamper a community
in the effort to improve its own oppor
tunities to the utmost extent that Is
compatible with the welfare of Others
who inhabit the same continent.-Chi
| Ill, Iy-nr.