The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-09-10


lions of Central and South Am erica, San
Domingo. the Spanish and q itish West
Indies, md Gstrtnny and Austria The
removal OF. the duty on sugar and the con-
q c ,ffee and tea ON the ce list,
while giving great relief to our own peo-
pie, Is also of enormous advantage to
countries exporting these articles; 50 as
to suggest reciprocal fayors. Great credit
IL due ME- Blaine for the vigos with
which he pressed this view.
The work Of erecting new agencies aud
our goods to new markets has
taken time, but the results III
ready attained nie such, am sure, as to
establish in popuinr favor the policy of
reciprocal trade based upon the fee I'M.
portatioh Of such articles Us do not injuc-
iously compete with our products i'll cx-
change for the free or favored introduce
1ion -Four products into other countr.cs
The obvious etficncy of this policy at
once attracted the alarmed attention of
European journal. and boards of trade
The British board of trade has presented
that government memorial asking for
the appointment of a commission to CON
slider the best means of counteracting
"the commercial crusade of the United
Statcs.' AT a meeting of the associated
Chambers of commerce of Great Brit
ain in March it was reported that exports
from Great Britain TO the Latin American
had decreased $23, T50,t0J, and that this
wa, due direct y to the reciprocity policy
of the United States. Germany and
France have also shown their startled APP
p:eclation of the fact that II new aud Wig
orous contestant has Appeared i'll the bat
ties of markets.
The most convincing evidence of the
tremendous commercial strength of QUE
position is found in the fact that Great
l,;t IT,, ,,J 1, - ,
to make cciprocal trade agreements with
us for their West Indian colonies. and
Germany and Austria have given us i'm.
portant concessions in exchange for the
continued free Importation of their beet
sugar product
Taking all the countries with which
arrangements have been made. our trade
to June 81. 1892, has increased BIS per
cent The liberal participation of our
farmers in the benefits of this policy is
shown by the report from the consul-gcn-
crnl mt Havana, July N f-..ting that dur
ing the first half year of lool Cuban ports
lad ecc.ved from Spain. approximately
2S0,00J bags of flour. During the same
period about $4,000 bags of American -four
Ind been received. But the first half of
this year Spain has sent less than l,t0l
bagl to the whole island and the United
States about 1900 bags. Partly by rem
son of reciprocal trnde arrangements, bu,
largely by reason of the renovn! of sani-
taty restrictions, our export OF pork pro
duets to Germany had inc cascd duting
the ten months ended June 10 last
&, ,025u7l, or about 32 per cent.
After quoting from the British Trade
journal concerning American and En-.
glish coal export to Cuba, tho presi-
dent continues:
The democratic platform promi sea n re
peal of the tariff Inv continuing is pro
vision. and especially denouuces as sham
reciprocity that section of the law under
which these arrangements have been
made. Are the farmers willing to sur
render these new, large and increasing
marl1etsl Are we to have nothing in ex
change for the free importation of sngn,
aud coffee and at the same time destroy
the sugar plante of the south and the
beet sugnr industry OF the northwest and
the Pacific coast9 or nre we TO have take,
sugar and coffee, which tariff for rev
euuc only necessarily involves, with ad
ded loss of new markets?
Our commercial rivrls in Europe do MOI
es1t & i ps,s 1sep oois,, nolevns "@shn
but as Il serious threat to the trade su
premncy they have long enjoyed They
would rejoice over the news that III,
United States had abandoned D otectio.
and reciprocity
Champions Protection.
The declaration of the platform in favo
of the "American doctrine of protection
meets my most hearty approval In som,
not remote national campaigns the issu,
has been made to appear 10 be betwee,
high and low protective tariffs, both par
| ties expressing some solici,ou4 regard fo
the wages of our working people aud III,
prosperity of our domestic industries
But under more courageous Leadership
the democratic party has now practical,
declared that if given power it will cnnc
/; tariff law without any regard to III
effect upon wages or upon the capital in
vested in our great iadust.ies
The president quotes tho ma iorit1
report Of the committee on platform t,
the democratic convention ut Chicago
and comments as follows:
Here we hnve distinct admission O
the republ can contention that America
| workmen are advnutagcd by IL tnritf rat,
equal to the difference between home ant
| foreign wages, and that many of our in
| dustries depend upon protective duties
Tor their successful continuance.
For these propositions, which were over
whclmingly rejected, II substitute wa
adopted declaring protective duties uncon
stitutionnl. A democratic congress hold
| ing this view caurot enact, nor n demo
| cratic president approve, any tariff schcd
| utc the purpose or effect OF which is l.
| limit impor,a,ioms or give any adynntas
| TO the American wo,lim,n or producer
| bounty might be given the importer ,,nde
| this view in order to increase importation
and SO iuc case the revcnue, for ''revcnu
| oniy' is the limitation
Reciprocity, of course falls under thi
denuncint on for its object and effect a.
| not rcvennc, but the promotion of com
mercial exchanges, the profits # which e
wholly to our producer, This destructive
| un-Americau doctrine was not held o
Taught bv the historic democratic states
men whose fame as American patriot
has reached this gcneration--ceetn etninly 10
by Jefferson or Jackson.
In this mad crusade against American
shops the bitter cpithcts applied to Amer
lean manufacturers the persistent disbc
lief of every report of the opening of
tin p a tc mill or the increase of our fore;gi
trade by recip ocity are as surprising n
they are di,credilable. There is not
thoughtful busincss man III the countr,
who does not know that the cuactmen
iuto law of the declaration of the Chicag,
convention on the subject of the TART
won'd Mt once lnnge the county into
business convul.ion such rs it has neve
seen; and there j., not n thoughtfn, work
ingmau III the country Who does not j,noy
that it would at once enormously reduo.
the work to he done by increasing intpor
ta,ions mud neccssitnte the reduction o
wages to the European standard
Defends the Mckinley Law.
f SpeakinG-of the effects of tho pres
ent ear. flaw the presidenr says:
The day of the prophet of calamity ha
been succeeded by that of the trade re
porter. An examination byn comniite,
of leading senator's of both parties Will
! .hc aid of the best statisticians, and til,
report signed by NIL the members of til,
committee, shows that the cost of articles
entering into the use of those earning les.
than $1,000 per annum had decreased u,
to May x per cent. while in farm pro
ducts there had been an increase in price !
In England during the same period tn.
cost of living had increased l.J per cent
Tested by their power to purchase article
of necessity, the earnings of our working
people have never been SO great ns now
There has been an average increase in th
rate of wages of - of per cent: an nd
vance In psices of all farm product, o
1jtT rer cent, nnd of NIL cereals OF 81. 8
per cent
Referring to Commissioners Peck
(New York) report the president says
In view of these showings it is plain tia
this tariff law has not imposed burdens
utcorfcrred benefits upon the fnrme
aud work. gnau.
Once or twice in our history the produc
/ ton of tin plate has been attempted. bu
/ the Welsl, makers Mt once cut prices TO
| poiut that drove American ncpinpcrs nm