Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-24
WHAT MR.. BLAINE SAID.

NEW Ohh, OCt. 1-.--au OulU
editor having written Mr.. Blaine that
the Democratic papers were parad.
ing him as an opponent of the Nc
Kinley bill, he replies as follows:
AUGUSTA, ME-, OCT. IA, 1891.
40 John HOpley, Esq, Editor of the
Journal, Bucyrus, Ohio:
"My dear Sir-You inform me
that the Democratic papers in your
town, and many throughout Ohio,
keep the following paragraph stand
ing in type: 'But there is not a section
or line in the entire bill mckinley
Tariff that will open market fol
another bushel of wheat or another
barrel of rk.'-JGmeS g. Blaine to
Senator Frye. July 11th, 1890.
"ThiS sentence Is garbled and
taken from its proper connection.
1t creates wrong impression.
What [ did say is the following:
60 I do not doubt that in many re.
spects the Tariff bill pending in the
Senate is q Just measure, and that
most Of its provisions are in GccOr.
dance ,oith the loiSe policy of protec-
ton, but there is not a section or a
line in the entire bill that will open
a market for another bushel OF
wheat or another pound of pork"
The letter in which this paragraph
occurs was written to Senator Frye
on July IL, 1890, and the Mckinley
bill did not become law until DC.
tober 1st- nearly three months there.
after.
In my letter to Mr.. Frye | object
cd to the bill because it did not con.
tain a reciprocal clause, which would
provide market for wheat and
pork, for other products of the farm,
and for various fabrics.
Before the bill was finally passed
the reciprocity clause was inserted
and large addition was made to
the free list. 1t will. therefore, be
seen from what | said in my letter
that the objection which | made to
the Mckinley bill was entirely re.
moved before the bill became a law.
Let me further say that the recip
rOcal clause has given ample market
for many barrels of -four and many
pounds of pork.
Brazil, some months since, enter
ed into a treaty by which many
American articles are admitted free,
Flour is made free, and pork is ad-
mitted at nominal duty.
Cuba and Porto Rico have reduc
ed the duty on flour from $3.50 bar,
rel to 81, which gives rs the market
besides putting nearly one hundred
articles of Amerean production Oh
the free list.
San Domingo has made recipro.
city treaty, with -four and pork up
gu the free list. besides large num-
Der of other articles. Other treaties
for reciprocity are in progress,
Germany, without negotiating a
formal treaty, has removed the pro-
hibition of pork, and our govern
ment, in consideration thereof, has
left its sugar Oh the free list. This
opens to US an entirely new market,
and s15,OOO,OOO to s2O,OOO,O0O of
American pork will be consumed
per annum. where not a pound
has been taken for ten years.
The reciprOcity provision is prov
ing very successful, especially in
farm products, aud more particular
ly in the case of two articles men
toned in the paragraph quoted
flour aud pork.
| attn not, therefore, an opponent
of the Mckinley bill, as the Demo
cratic papers OF Ohio are constantly
alleging. On the contrary, | have
cordially supported it ever since it
was perfected by the insertion ofths
reciprocity clause,
Very respectfully yonrs,
JAMES q. BLAINE.