Sharp County record., 1891-01-15
RECIPROCITY AT DINNER.

Annual Dinner OF the New York Chamber
Of Commerce-Sp Speeches By Cleveland,
Depew and SchurE Reciprocity and For
eiGn Trade the ToplcS
Tho New York Chamber OF Commerce
has always been a rather hide bound
protectionist organizat on, At is an
nual dinner there has usually been o
large amount of protectionist speech
max ng. But a change seems to be COM
ing over tbs conservat We old body.
The needless hardships which the two
Mckinley laws-the tariff law and the
customs administrat law-have laid
upon commerce seem to have made the
members OF the Chamber OF Commerce
open 10 other and better ideas
At its annual dinner just held recip-
rocity was the keynote Of the speeches.
The gentlemen comprising the Cham
Der apparently feel with Blaine that
"the United States has reached a po. mt
where one OF its highest duties is to en-
large the area of its foreign trade"
Chauncey NJ. Depew, who is an aspr-
ant for the Republican nominal on for
the Presidency made the first speech
and dilated upon the beauties of reci.
procity with the Spanish-speaking ma.
tions OF South America, with Canada
and all American nat 'Ons or colonies,
His reference to the recent money crisis
in London, and the way in VIII 'ch the
Bank of France came to the rescue of
the Bank of England by lending it sl5,-
900, 900 at per cent, when the current
rate was SIX. THIS, he said, was "n-
ternational reciprocity Of the broadest
and most beneficent character"
The most remarkable speech of the
evening was made by Carl Schurz on
foreign commerce. His concluding
words were as follows:
II am deeply COW ID, II we wish to
spreal cur commerce over the world and
revive our mesch mt fleet, We must at last
touch the vital point As the South need d
the abolition of sluv ry to disclose to her
all her possibilities of prosperity and great
ness so our industr es and our comm rec,
In order TO enter up m NV and boundless
career Cf progressive deve Opment me- d
only the breaking OF the chains which
hamper them An, gentlemen, it Is, after
all, In the air Of fred IN that the genius OF
Amerl most grandly unfolds its pow.rs.
IN a pro und believer in the great des.
thy of this Republic. ONLY let us have an
agriculture relieved ofthe artificial burdens
put upon it; manufactlr IT ng 4 dustrS lib.
erat' d Cf the taxes which make production
costly; n commerce fIee 10 get ships, and
carrying merchandise chal engng the com.
petition of the world let US have a free
II I'd and a fair chance for American enter.
prise lrbor and INVENTION, and this Repub,
lie will not only remain one Of the first
granaries Of the eIrth, but advance with
giant strides to become tine greatest indus
iial and Commerci ,lnation of the age-aye,
the greatest the world has ever known"
At the conclusion OF the regular
speeches ex-President Cleveland was
loudly called for. In his response he
referred to Mr., Depew's address as fol-
lows:
We have heard that reciprocity would bo
a good thing between US and the Spanish.
speaking p'op.e Now, it occurs to me, II
1t would be a good thing wi the Spanish.
speaking people It woul be with the peo.
pic who speak our own language. We have
hearI tn It our breahstuffs 70 across the
water AMI that the people over thor need
them, and that means a market Tor those
products, does 1t not9 [NprluSo have
heard that a bird in the hand IS worth two
in the buSh. and 1t occurs to me that II we
-. -; -la'H uarket ~ 'u' pro 'ucts e
inG t. manufactu anoth'r
We have heard tonight how gand and
France have within few GAYS rushed to
cur rescue in a financial way, prompted
thereto ty h. noble sentiment Of Ieciproc.
lty, If they are so viii Ing and glad to ex.
terd the hand Of r 9 ne in financial matters,
how would 1t be to give them chance In
commercial and other mGtter Applause.