Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-05-29
MoRRlsoN'S RECIPROCITY TALKS.

To the Editor OF the New Mexican.
SANTA FE, N. NJ, May %, 1S9l.-It is
sound military maxim that one should
do exactly the opposite of what ones enc
my wishes him to do; and this maxim is
just as sound in peace as in war. Eng
land is our great competitor for the COM
mercial and manufacturing supremacy of
the world Nearly 1000 years have
elapsed since she began to lay the founda-
tons of her enormous industrial system.
Every means in her power (some of the
most cruel and unscrupulous) have been
used to attain her objects, and she sue
ceeded so well that at last she believed
she was created to be the work shop OF
the world and that the sole mission OF the
rest of mankind was to be her customers.
In an evil hour for her virile young
rival sprang up on this side of the Allan
tic and in 100 years we have overtaken
and passed her in many industries which
she was wont to regard as especially her
own. Other nations too, have began to
supply their own wants, and thus feeling
the markets of the world slipping from
her grasp she is increasing her efforts to
obtain larger footing in our market and
to checkmate us in our new enterprises of
extending her trade southwark. In these
efforts the lion in England's path is the
Republican party. But it is Notifying to
us to be compelled to acknowledge that
the Democratic party and its snarling ally,
the Mugwumps, are in perfect accord with
England in every step she takes toward
the destruction of our industrial enter
prises. 1t would be merely repeating a
truism to say that the English government,
the Democrats and the Mugs are solidly
united on the question of free trade. 1t is
generally true that these same allies
agree on the question Of recipro-
city. To begin at the beginning every
Democratic representative and senator
voted against incorporating that principle
in the Mckinley bill, then when it was
placed in said bill in spite of their oppo-
sition and became law the next move
was to sneer at what they called Blaine's
reciprocity treaty with Brazil, and with
their characteristic mendacity they an
nounced to the world that Brazil could
not carry out the provisions of the treaty
because her new constitution was not
adopted and would not carry it out be-
cause said constitution would not be
adopted. How these wiseacres know
that this constitution will not be adopted
no one can tell, but this attempted
prophesy shows how anxious they are
that we should not succeed in extending
our markets among our southern neigh
bors. But now to show how short-lived
Democratic lie is, here comes Senior
Mendonca, the Brazilian minister, who
emphatically states on the authority of
his home government that said treaty is
being carried out in Brazil in every de-
tail. Following that comes the wall of
the British free trader, and it too gives the
lie direct to the above assertion: "a
paper published in London for the in
formation of Australians and officials in
India, the Colonies and India, after say
ing that the new reciprocity treaty is the
subject of much discussion in the COM
mercial circles, adds: Mr.. Blaine's plan
for reciprocity with the Latin-American
republics would strike heavy blow at
Great Britaln's trade, while Canada, India
and other colonies were increasing their
surplus products with great rspidity."
And the British Trade journal bluntly
says: "The bait thus cleverly thrown
out has already been swallowed by Brazil