The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-02-13
SUPERSTITION NS. FACT.
HOW PROTECTION STIMULATES
INDUSTRIES.

Praise for American Commercial Di-
plomacy-rerkins has Fun With "a Dem
ocratic Editor-Senator Hale to Senator
Hill Current Items of Interest
Praise for American Diplomacy.
Intermingled with the quiet peace
celebration of Central Europe we hear
triumphant shouts Of victory coming
from the United States, our transAtlan
tic rival. After a wear OF painful labor
and negotiations. the nations OF Central
Europe have succeeded IN negotiating
treaties which ut least are but Il mosaic
composed of thousands of compro-
misses. Every advantage Welded by Il
neighbor had to he compensated by a
corresponding advantage granted to
hint is but an honest reciprocal eX
change, item for item. However, the
documents signed at Saratoga by the
German and American representatives.,
which We publish tins morning,
represent great victory for
the American Union, victory
which costs the victor nothing,
conquest without blow. 1t is an ex
preston of the superior natural condi-
tons of nationa, lite and of the superior
commercial diplomacy of the trans
Atlantic state of the future over
'etiete Europe" poor alike in blood
and thought. To-day lei us only look
at the American policy OF commercial
negotiations and compare ii with the
system introduced by Bismarck. Bis
marck's idea was: In order to obtain
good commercial treaties it Is necessary
first to establish high tariff and then
TO otler and make reductions from this
Too in la al nc
favors. Under this system the planters
and manufacturers became accustomed
to tie unusual rate Ot protection aC-
corded them and most Vehemently OPP
posed any reduction theretrom, The
government was at the mercy oil these
classes. and has since 1879 been forced
To policy of inactivity in the field Of
commercial NEGOTIATIONS.
The new tCapriyit government partly
abandons this taliacious system
though France seems disposed to con-
tinue lt-and it, new treaties grant nu-
merous reductions IN return for like
tayorS.
The commercial Ideas OF the Aneri~
can secretary of state, Mr. Blaine, are
entirely different. They are contained
in Art. III. Of the famous Mckinley
tariff Whether this tariff as a whole
will prove useful 10 the | nItcd States
remains 10 be shown; to-day We con
slider only Art. III.
This article was inserted by Mr..
Blaine, q friendly opponent OF Mr. Nc
kinIey, and has in the latest CONNER
cial negotiations proven its eminent
wisdom most brilliantly. Mr.. Blaine's
idea differs materially from Bismarck's 5.
1t is as follows:
In order to obtain favorable treaties
the duty on certain important articles
such as sugar, m0iasseS, coffee, tea,
Lides, etc, was greatly reduced or aboi-
shed with conditions that it might be
re-e-tabiished after January l, 1892, III
case nations profting BY II did not
make corresponding concessions.
While according to Bismarck ssystcm.
domestic interested parties became used
to special high duties and formed a sol
id phalanX against any reduction or
concessions, Mr. Biaine's system causes
the foreign exporter to profit by the re-
dnctlon, and makes of him powerful
ally to force his the fOreignl govern
ment TO make concessions to prevent
the re-establishment of the American
duties.
This principle is likewise contained
in the new meat inspection bill, whose
threats of tariff war and prohibition
nave iIldutti European 'btilt1 ItS 10
raise their prohibition on American
meats Mr.. Blaine's idea has been sue
cesstul in both cases. 1t has secured
for the United States treaties with Bra
zil, Cuba, and with other of the South
American states, and thus brings Mr..
Blaine's great Pan-Amcrican scheme
nearer realization. at the same time
damaging European exporters IN all
American markets.
Mr.. Blaine's idea has already forced
Germany, Denmark, Austria and
France to repeal their prohibitions of
American meat, and Italy is on the
point of doing the same. But the doe
Blaine's master piece. The central Eu-
ropean tariff union has been rendered
ineffective with reference to the nited
States. The German tariff on agricultur
al products was to be reduced only in
favor of Italy and Austria. ano to be re-
tanned against Russia and America be-
cause the latter nations do not enioy
1.-The most favored nations privileges"
This would have been profitable only
to German and Austrian farmers, and
not to the people, because these two
nations, not raising enough grain for
themselves, the price would have been
fixed, not by Hungarian grain at $50
marks, but by American and Russian
grain at ) marks, as heretofore.
Mr.. Blaine, however, has completely
upset these calculations and made the
new tariff on agricultural products apply
to the United States as we'll, the reduc-
ton of which the United States will
profit as follows:
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