New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-14
NOT 4 BRECKINRIDGE BABI.

When Mr.. Breckenridge, OF hehIuOhS' az
tempts practical joke he ought to warn prom
inent journals of his own party OF his intentions
so that they will not treat his work seriously
Taking as his text the recent letter OF the state
Department 10 the diplomatic representatives. Oh
Powers which have not concluded kecpfoclty
Conventions with the United States, he has
abrIptly offered resolution IN the House re-
poaing the Aldrich amendment to the farm
Act, and substituting for 1t the following clause ::
The President Of The United States Is hereby author
,el without further legislation to declare inc ports oi
Inc United States free and open to all the pouncts Ok
any nation OF the American hemisphere upon "iloh no
EXPORT duties are imposed, whenever ana so long As
such nation snail admit to Its ports FREQ OF All Nj
tiona provincial (stato, municipal and other otAcs'
nour corn meal ard other breadstus, preserved meats
vegetables and fruits cotton seed OIL rice ana "thcf
povisions including all articles OF lOod' iulhoe'
furniture and all other articles OF wool agricultural
implements and machinery, mining ana hechilh'"4
machinery structural steel and iron steel rsIs "o'
motives. railway cars and supplies, streetcars' re
fined petroleum, or snch other pFoouV~ Oh V"o O
states as may he agreed upon -,
The Free-Trade journals of this town. when
have been utterly unable to make Roadway
against the Reciprocity policy rush In at once
with precpitate haste to the support OF THIS
amendment. 1.-THE New-York Times" refer
ring to the resolution as one which was lhlro-
duced by Mr.. Breckenridge at the last session,
heartily fayors its passage in that 1t goes TO
the core Of the Reciprocity humbug enoouled
in the Mckinley law" and because moreover
it goes at the problem Of mutual trade III inc
right wayD at must compel" 1t continues
" the friends and supporters OF the Administers
ton TO face the facts And, above all, 1t must
impress upon the public mind what real heci-
procity is. and force upon those who have been
deceived by the oontrivance inserted IN the Nc
Kinlev law nj the last moment the fact that there
can be no real Reciprocity that is not opposed
completely to the spirit, pnrRA and elect OF
that law"
1.-The World'' in like manner cordially accepts
the resolution as " real Reciprocity" " In other
words,~ it adds, "Mr. Breckinridges plan is 70
make Reciprocity actual, 70 make II uh'aA
Americans as well As foreigners; 70 make Rec
procity treaties honest bargains for mutual bene-
fit and to confnc the Presidents activities within
the limits prescribed by the Constitution and by
the traditions of a hundred years"
What will be the CONSERVATION Of these Dem
,-ratic ccnsors when they learn that the real
and genuine Reciprocity plan Offered by Their
Free raQe II ih'HASN'A "'~' 49, I'Nf
osition submitted by Secretary Blaine Oh June
10 1890, 70 Congress and subsequently intro
duced in the Senate as the Hale amendment
The phraseology has been reproduced word ior
word absolutely without change The Demo
cratic Congre> sman. while affecting 10 challenge
the entire Reciprocity policy of the Admlnlstra-
ton and proposing to repeal the Adrich amend
ment altogether, introduces Secretary B!aine.s
original proposition and then the Frec.Irade
journals of his party, not s,spcting what 1t is
that they arc extolling as consummate states
manship. fall into rapturcs over ral and gen
nine Reciprocity" and into denunciations of that
orrant sham and "humbug," tho Reciprocity
amendment.
Tho plight Of these journals which have been
caught In the act Of hugging the original Blame
Reciprocity doll to their b0Som' under the i'm
nrsqion that it was a live Breckenridge Free
Trade baby is distressing. II is too late now
for them to make the discovery that there Is
sawdust in the doll They are on record a
heartily supporting the Reciprocity policy as It
was proposed by Secretary Blaine, and carried
out 10 his full satisfaction in the Aldrlch amend
ment and with remarkable practical success in
the long list of Reciprocity treaties