The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-02-11
1AE RrelpRoclTY CLAUSE.
n Does Not Apply to the Relations Re
tween blaine, hen and the Major.


n Does Not Apply to the Relations Ese-
tween Blaine, Ben and the Major.
Whatever may be meant by the pol
icy of reciprocity which Is inter
preted in so many ways by lie repub.
lican statesmen and organs, II Is plain
that 1t does not include reciprocal good
feeling between the three great repub-
lean leaders, blaine, Mckinley and.
Harrison As matter OF fact. there
il nothing In the Mckinley tariff pro-
vidihg for reciprocity directly. There
Is only d clause giving the president .
limited power Of retail alton upon gos-
ernments which do not accord what he
! regards as fair concessions to the
United States. That power has never
been explicitly Used. Whether there
has been threat Of using it or not we
| cannot say. Mr. Blaine, in his recent
letter, intimated that there had been
such a threat made to Germany. that
German beet sugar bad been left free
Of a#ty in@eensid eratlons OF he admis-
sion to Germany ofA American pork.
But If that be the Cause.-The public has
not been informed of it. Mr. Harrison
is authority for the statement that the
admission of our pork has nothing to
do with any question of reciprocity,
but is based upon the acceptance by
the German government of the inspec-
tion of meats by this government under
| the law Of the last congress.
This is not the only sign of fatal
want of agreement between the presi-
4 h 10 oil faf
state on this point 1t will be remem-
bered that when Mr.. Harrison was on
his famous trans-contiRental tour last
izspring he cfuimed atEthe credit for the
insertion of the reciprocity clauses in
the Mckinley bill. But whether he or
Mr. Blaine be really the flasher Of this
legislation it is impossible to tell.
What is entirely clear is that they are
quarreling over its character and effect
as openly as the convcntionalities OF
official life and the exigencies of party
politics will permit. Meanwhile poor
/ Maj. Mckinley has become sadly
tangled in tho difficulty" The demo-
cratic papers in Ohio were quoting Mr..
| Blaine's famous letter denouncipg the
Mckinley bill because there was mot
a section or line in the entire bill
| that will open market for another
bushel of wheat or another barfel OF
pork Whereupon Mr.-Blaine writes
TO say "Before the bill was finally
passed the reciprocity clause was in.
serted and a large addition was made
to the free list. 1t will, therefore, be
seen from what said in my letter that
the objection which made to the Nc
| Kinley bill was entirely removed be-
fore the bill became law. y
am not. therefore, an opponent to the
t Mckinley bills-as the democratic pa
/ pers of Ohio are constantly alleging.
| On the contrary, | haye cordially sup
ported it ecer since it was perfected by
| the insertion of the reciprocity
| clause"
As we have already pointed out, this
is very cold comfort for Mr.. Mckinley.
So far from explaining or retracting his
savage criticism of the bill. Mr.. Blaine
reiterates and justifies it. Upon the
bill as Maj. Mckinley made it, carried
it through the house, and sent it to the
senate, Mr.. Blaine now passes the
same Judgment that he pronounced iu
July of last year. He has nothing
good to say of the law except for the
reciprocity clause of which he claims
to be the parent. So far as we have
been able to get at the facts in the
very confused record, Mr. Blaine's
claim has very slight foundation in
fact, and the so-called reciprocity
clause was in reality due to Mr.. Har
rison, who did not care very much fol-
it, but who wanted to head off any op
position that Mr. Blaine and his friends
might make. Mr.. Mckinley, however
is entirely out of the whole affair, and
can only claim that he killed Mr.
Blaine's original notion of putting
hides on the dutiable list in order tx
give Mr.. Blaine something to "trads
on" Considering the utter futility Of
the RECIPROCITY, Legislation the heated
dispute carried on around it is Curl
GUS indication of the state Of the repub
| lican m;nd-N " Times