The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-14
RECIPROCITY UP TO DATE.

just before the recent elections THE
HERALD commented upon ''cooked'' stat
lstical statement of the treasury depart
ment, designed to affect the result In states
wnere political contests were going on.
Ihis statement, or report was issued in
pampnlet form and scattered broadcast
over Ohio, Iowa and other sections Its
object was to uphold the MeKIYLEY tariff.
ana especially the reciprocity, features
OF It. Facts are leaking out low that the
exhibit made was not such a tremendous
argument for the Republican party, after
all.
AFTER Mr.. BLAINE's great buster relative
70 che omissions of the Mckinney bill as
reported to the House, in declaring Hthere
Is not section or line in the entire bin
that will open market for another bushaI
OF wheat or another barrel of pork. -" il was
assumed that the proposed reciprocity
amendments would effect immense benefits
In finding new purchasers for American
commodities. Brazil, the Spanish Indies
ana Puerto Rico have accepted the proposed
treaties. Brazil, according to our yester-
Gays dispatches is now anxious for a
modlhcatlon; but it has been shown bv
the Brazilian Blue Book that the apthori-
Ties there already consider they have much
the best of the bargain.
Ike commercial arrangement with
oiaAh became operative on the lst of April
iast' and the reports cover period of five
months. The exports of wheat to the
WnoLe OF South America Brazil included
ior eight months show loss of $252. 65S. as
compared with the previous year. The
exports IN August, 1891, were worth 81. 574.
as compared with s67, 233 in the Same
month last year. And this extraor-
binary decrease took place simultaneously
with great increase in exports of wheat
10 countries not under reciprocity The
increase IN wheat exports TO France, for
instance, Melted between twenty and
twenty-one millions of dollars in the eight
months, 100000 of which were in August.
NOW as to pork. The exports for the
eight months ending August 81, 1891, of
saltec and picked pork showed decrease
Oh se',2eS. Bacon showed 'tunder reci-
procity" an increase of S113, 900, but at the
same time all other countries enlarged
tnelr demands, even Germany to the extent
of 100000.
AS the reciprocal arrangement did not go
into effect in Puerto Rico, San Domingo or
Cuba until September l, last, there are no
statistics available for comparison, but it
Is lar to presume they would give no better
showing.
NOW, as reciprocity has not opened mar
ket for another bushel of wheat or an
other barrel of pork" let US notice its
operation with regard to other products. In
the eight months covering the period when
reciprocity" with Brazil has been in
operation there has been decrease.
amounting in the aggregate to mapy
thousands of dollars, in potatoes, beans.
peas, hay, oats, fish, cotton seed oil and
coal. To offset this there has been an in
crease in the exports of tar, pitch, turpen-
tine and rosin Of about $40, 000-less. a
great deal, than that of Germany and other
nations not enjoying the benefits of re-
ciprocity. There has, too, been a good in
crease in machinery exports, mostly loco
motives, to Brazil the figures reaching
s., 423,s11.
The facts show that whatever advantages
to Americans accrue from reciprocal trade
relations with those countries where thew
operate, those items in which the Ameri-
can agriculturist is interested are not in
cluded. And where they exhibit benefits
tall they are arguments for fair trade with
all countries, instead of with those of this
continent only.