The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-03-06
TWO FOREIGN MARKETS.

Our markets la Brazil u-ad In England Com
Pared-vast Importance of the Easlish
Market to Our EssrEners-E5rszfl's small
and Mixed Population
Now that partial free trade under the
name OF reciprocity has been secured
with Brazil it viii be of interest TO eS-
anime in detail what kind OF a 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
lxets 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 manufactu
Our wise lawmakers ought to see that
if other nations should legislate against
US to enforce reciprocity of trade with
them as we have legislated against
Brazil we should be taken at n 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 wooden goods, or we will tax your
corn and your meat; let in raw wool
free from the English colonies, or we
will tax your raw cotton Such a 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 be
willing to see reciprocity by threats
become universal, else their votes for
the Mckinley brand of reciprocity were
inconsistent and not founded on their
belief in the intrinsic wisdom and
Justice of that measure. These law
makers voted tariff duties on many En-
glish products which involve a great
hardship to many manufacturers and
working people in Europe by shutting
them out of our markets; and now our
high tariff organs exultingly print re-
ports of the shutting down of wOrsted
mills in Bradford, England. These re-
ports are commented upon with great
satisfaction by the high prOtectionists
as evidence or the wisdom or the Nc
Kinley law; for England's loss, they
stupidity say, is our gain.
It is worth while to compare our
great free market in England, which
the protectionists affect to despise, with
the markets of Brazil, which they now
look upon as the promised land in which
our farmers and manufacturers are to
sell enormous quantities of their prod
ucts and reap untold profits in trade.
In order to make this cOTnTaT-iSOu in de-
tail it will be necessary to take the
figures for the fiscal year 1889, those for
1890 not being available as yet for many
commodities. Our exports of the lead
ing commodities to Brazil and England
(including Scotland and Ireland) for the
fiscal year are given in the following
comparison: