The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-19
Harrison Writes to an Ohio Editor that
He is in Full Sympathy With It's
Provisions.
The Democrats of Ohio Have About
Give Up the Contest to the High
Tariff Men.
A Democratic Victory in Ohio Means
More than the Election of Demo-
crat Governor.


having written Mr.. Blaine that the
democratic papers were parading him as
an opponent of the Mckinley bill, he
replies under date of Augusta, Me-, Oct.
IA, to John Hopley, editor of the Journal
of Bucyrus, O., as follows:
You inform me the democratic paper
in your town and many democratic
papers throughout Ohio keep the follow
ing paragraph standing in type: But
there is not section or line in the Nc
Kinley bill that will open the market
for another bushel of wheat or another
barrel of pork.-James G. Blaine to Sena-
tor Fry, July II, $780, This sentence is
garbled and taken from its proper con-
nection, What did say is the follow
ing:
81 do not doubt that in many respects
the tariff bill pending in congress is
just measure, and that most of it's pro-
visions are in accordance with the wise
prlicy of protection, but there is not a
section or 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
wrs written to Senator Frye July II,
1890, and the Mckinley bill did not be-
come law until October 1, nearly three
months thereafter.
''In my letter to Senator Frye 1 OBJ
jected to the bill because it did not con-
tain reciprocity clause, which would
provide market for wheat, pork, and
for the other products OF the farm and
for various fabrics. Before the bill was
finally passed reciprocity clause was
inserted and large addition made to
the free list. 1t will therefore be seen
from what l said in my letter that the
objection, which made to the McKin-
ley bill, was entirely removed before the
bill became a law. Let me further say
the reciprocity clause has given an
amply market for many barrels of -four
and many pounds of pork. Brazil some
months ago entered into treaty by
which many American articles were adj
mitted free. Flour. is made free and
pork is admitted at nominal duty. Cuba
and Porto Rico have reduced the duty
on flour from So 80 barrel to 81 (Which
gives us the market) besides putting
nearly a hundred articles of American.
production on the free list. San
Domingo has made reciprocity treaty
with -four and pork on the free list, be-
Sides large number of other articles.
Other treaties for reciprocity are in
progress. Germany, without negotiating
formal treaty, has removed the prohi-
bition on pork, and our government, in
consideration thereof, has left her sugar
on the free list. This opens to us an en-
tirely new market, and $15 1000, 900 to
$50, 900, 900 of American pork will be
consumed per annum, where not a pound:
has been taken for ten years. The reci-
procity provision is proving very success
full, especially in fa1m products, and
more particularly in the case of the two.
articles mentioned in the paragraph
quoted-four and pork. / am not :,
therefore, an opponent of the Mckinley
bill, as the democratic papers in Ohio
are constantly alleging. On the con-
trary, / have cordially supported it ever
since it was pefected by the insertion of
the reciprocity clause.