Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-03-07
TWO FOREIGN MARKETS.
Our Markets In Brazil and In England Com
pared-vast Importance of the English
Market to Our Farmers-Brazifs Small
and Mixed Population.

Our Markets In Brazil and In England Com
pared-yast Importance of the English
Market to Our Farmers-Brazil's Small
and Mixed Population.
Now that partial free trade under the
name of reciprocity" has been secured
with Brazil it will be of interest to ex-
anime in detail what kind of market
has been opened for us in that country,
and to compare it with the free market
we already have in England.
The Mckinley type of reciprocity"
seeks to accomplish its end by threats
of retaliation to the injury of our own
people. If you do not open your mar
kets to us, we say to Brazil, we will
avenge ourselves upon you by making
our own people pay duties on your
sugar, your coffee, your hides-on your
sugar, seven-tenths of a cent to two
cents per pound; on your coffee, three
cents per pound, and on your hides
one and half cents per pound. Brazil
knew that the tariff is tax and that
these duties would restrict the sale OF
her products in this country, and hence
| Brazil has chosen to lower her tariff
wall to our farm products and to many
of our manufactures.
Our wise lawmakers ought to see that
If other nations should legislate against
us to enforce reciprocity of trade with
them as we have lcgislated against
Brazil we should be taken at great
disadvantage. A just legislator will
not vote for any measure applying to
foreign nations which he is not per-
fectly willing that those nations should
apply to our own country. How should
we like to have England enact a reel,
procity measure embodying our Blaine
reciprocity idea? Admit tin plates
free, or your wheat and -four shall be
taxed at Liverpool; lower your duties
on woolen goods, or we will tax YOU
corn and your meat; let in raw WOO
free from the English colonies, or WI
will tax your raw cotton. Such tit
for-tat would expose to us what fool
ish and shallow makeshift is our reel
procity by threats of retaliation.
But our lawmakers ought to b,
willing to see reciprocity by threat
become universal, else their votes TO
the Mckinley brand Of reciprocity wer,
inconsistent and not founded on thei
belief in the intrinsic wisdom ant
Justice Of that measure. These law
makers voted tariff duties on many En-
glish products which involve grea
hardship to many manufacturers an
working people in Europe by shuttin
them out of our markets; and now on
high tariff organs exultingly print re
ports of the shutting down of worste
mills in Bradford, England. These RI
ports are commented upon with grea
satisfaction by the high protectionist
as evidence of the wisdom of the Nj
Kinley law; for England's loss, the
stupidity say, is our gain.
1t is worth while to compare ou
great free market in England, whic
the protecticnists affect to despise, wit
the markets of Brazil, which they no.
look upon as the promised land in whic
our farmers and manufacturers are
sell enormous quantities Of their pro'
ucts and reap untold profits in trad
In order to make this comparison In d
tail II will be necessary to take Il
figures for the fiscal year 1889, those II
1890 not being available as yet for mar
commodities Our ,xports Of the lea