Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-30

| ness-Blaine's Reciprocity the Thing
| The Party of Progress indicated.
! Senator Mills and those other free
trade Democrats whose idea of reci-
procity is to throw open the markets
IF the United States to the manufac-
/ iured products of Great Britain, and
who believe that the revenue system of
that country ought to be adopted here,
should read and mediate on the re-
marks of Lord Salisbury TO a meeting
If English workmen which were
printed recently They show that
That distinguished leader of the Con-
jarvative party appreciates the advan-
.'gcs of the position occupied by the
United States far more clearly than
! he so-called statesmen who rule the
! democracy, and that he can see what
| they cunnot-the merits of Mr.. Blaine's
reciprocity policy. He perceivcs the
Gangers TO which England is exposed
by the prevailing system of war tar
IFS, - and he is courageous enough to
express his sentiments clearly, though
! hc is well aware that they will bring
! down on him the wrath of the free
traders. 1t would be well if all Ameri-
ran rarity chiefs would state their be-
! liefs as frankly.
! Lord Salisbury says:
Despite the prophecies of the free
trade advocates foreign nations are
| rdop'ing protection. They are exclud-
ing us from their markets and are try
J ing TO kill our trade. And this state
Of things appears to grow worse. We
J live in an age of war tariffs. Another
I important point is that while nations
are negotiating TO obtain each others
| commercial favor none is anxious about
the favor of Great Britain, because
/ Treat britain has stripped herself of
the Hrmor and weapons with which the
battle is to be fought.
The attitude we have taken in re-
| rarding it as disloyal to the glorious
nd sacred doctrines of free trade TO
itvy duties on anybody for the sake of
! nything we get thereby may be noble
| but it is not businesslike. On these
terms you will not get anything. If
! on intend to hold your own in this
conflict of tariffs you must be pre-
! Jared to refuse nations who iniurc you
cccss to your markets
The Democratic free-traders are
| rnNious that this country should strip
! itself Of the armor and weapons with
! which the battles of commerce are to
he fought They propose that it
! should let in free the manufactures of
! France and Germany, for instance,
| without cXacting concessions from
those countries for American products,
and leave the entire matter to the sell
! lshness of those foreign nations,
lis England has done. The
! blaine Harrison reciprocity policy
| Is the antipodes of this. 1t
! lays to Germany: I'VE will deal lib
!rally with your beet sugar if you will
zeal fairly with our pork and grain. -
Germany accedes to the proposition be-
cause it has to. a Republican admin
istration says to Latin-Anerican coun-
tries: 1--WE will let in your sugar and
coffee free if you will let in some of our
products free, lower the duty on others,
and give us special advantages which
other nations shall not share" Those
! Latin-Amcrican States have done SO,
and the English consular reports show
how English trade has been crippled
thereby.
The policy of the United States in
protecting its own manufactures is in
tensely distastefui to England. which
has found SO profitable market in this
country, and the Englishmen would
like to hit back if they could. But
what can they do about it? Lord Sal
isbury looks on the position of the
United States as invuinera He
says:
We complain most of the United
States, and it so happens that the
United States maintains and furnishes
us with articles which are essential to
our manufacturers We cannot exclude
either without serious injury to our,
selves. | am not prepared in order to
punish other countries to intlict dan
gerous wounds on ourselves. We must
confne ourselves to those matters
wherein we will not suffer much
whether importation continues or di'
minishes.
England must have the provisions
and breaostuffs of the United States to
feed her people and enable them to de,
vote themselves to manufacturing. She
must have cotton, or her mills would
close. During the last fiscal year she
took four hundred and forty million
dollars worth of American products.
Cotton, meats and cereals amounted to
over three hundred and fifteen mill
ions. No other country could furnish
what England needed, and it was nee
essary to purchase from the United
States. England cannot retaliate. She
has stripped herself of her arElor and
weapons. She is trying to carry on
a commercial war on Quakerish princi-
pies, and finds that other nations will
not follow her example. She has
nothing left to trade with and is just
where Messrs. Mills and Cleveland
wish the United States to be. If Eng.
land could say to the United States: 'If
you will lower the duties on our iron
and steel products and textiles we will
let in your provisions and breadstuffs
free, removing the onerous duties we
now impose upon them which keep
them out, the farmers of this country
would demand a reduction of duties on
foreign manufactured goods. But tits
not in the power of England to make
such an offer. She can make faces,
and humble threats like Giants Pope
and Pagan, but is impotent to dc
any harm. The United States has a
cinch on her and will continue to have
it unless the free-trade Democrats get
control of the government and pass a
law to emancipate England by doing