The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-13

HiAul Lee uAAhoh Ah'
orleS-ForsiEn l.umouv Regarding
Republican Isrch,Ity.
american EeoHomiL
Representative Nion I. Wilson. of
West Virginia, who's hat norton of
the pubic which lds the current
Forum that he is a maj scbolarlv at
tainments and an auth ty on political
and economic subjects tupies several
Ppagcs OF this p~eriodica, snnnor of
the Chicago Platforms d1nciation OF
SHAN reciprocity"
1t is not proposed to inQ.o wbatbar
Representative Wilson h0Anv belicf
in the statements and ds%ctions ho
makes, or ii they are s(,ly said
through the pressing necessII If the
present crisis in the campaigtbut We
wish to call the attention OF aiDemo.
Gratis who desire the advantage this
country over that OF foreign cotries
to the following from KLhioW's Oman
Trade Review and Exporter OF Augt "a
last. Writing OF the treaty whicher-
many had Just concluded with Con.
bia and Uruguay, it says: "Our d..
mercia! policy during the last WI
won II victory which would scarce
have been credited Il short while Dach
And after assertingthat it is not Russl
or Servia, but Colombia and Uruguay
it continues:
at is not that our commerce in this
direction is OF sucll great importance,
or that our export industry has got
much to hope for as would be the case
were m~odGrations in the Russian tariff.
No! The importance Of the treaties
with Columbia and Uruguay is that by
means Of them the intentions OF the
Mckinley bill have been frustrated.
The whole OF America was to have
bound itself together against European
industries. Now that the spell has
been broken we may hope to see this
Pan-Americanism done away with.
This fact is OF moro importance to our
indurtry than the conclusion OF any
number OF treaties which we have or
shall conclude with different states all
over the world.
"ln the Mckinley reciprocity clauses
dealing with sugar, molasses, coffee and
hides are the only things OF importance
which are admitted duty Tree. This
freedom OF import is, however, only in.
sured to those states which makes con
cessions in the tariff to the North Amer.
lean Union. Under this pressure Ger
many, Austria and France were obliged
to enter into q most favored treaty with
the United States, and ut the same time
abolished the %prohibitory duties on
American bacon and pork. Under the
same pressure Brazil, Nicaragua and
Salvador entered into treaties, which
turned them-more than economically
Into %satrapies of q great state. The
Mckinley bill had selected those arti-
cles for reciprocity with the greatest
cuteness. Sugar certainly still remains
one OF the most important articles IL
our trade with the United States, since
they are and will DO dependent upon us
for this commodity for some time to
come, but it is not everything in our
trade. For the South American states,
however, coffee and hides really Consti-
tute the chief articles OF trade. The
United States were therefore able to
bring the greatest pressure to bear on
on other states, without being them
selves obliged to make any sacrifice"
There does not seem to be much
claim on the part OF this German com
mercial paper that the reciprocity
clauses OF the Mckinley bill were a
SHAM" Juggling with the peoples de-
sire for enlarged foreign markets and
freer exchanges" as it in fact obliged
Germany, Austria and France TO abol-
ish what KuhioU'S calls the prohibitory
duties on American bacon and pork,
but what, in fact, were unwarranted
determinations against our hog pro-
ducts. These are among the markets
which President Harrison said were
'long obstinately closed to u.s." and
kuhlOW'S congratulates the German
traders and manufacturers that the
treaties mentioned are the first check
to the Pan-American policy, and in ad-
dition it will be a severe blow to the
Republican policy" to which policy
the forced abolition OF prohibitory du-
ties on American bacon and pork are
laid. The article closes with the fol-
paragraph:
This success must be entirely attri-
buted to the quick action of our home
but at tho same time we do not
to estimate it too highly. Ger
many has scarcely gained any advant-
age worth mentioning, but it makes
null and void the action Of the United
and we maintain our former
position in the markets of the above
mentioned provinces. The time chosen
for the publishing Of the treaties
namely, just before the elections-was
appropriate, and we may be GER
tain that the Democrats will not fail to
use the advantage thus given them over
their opponents. Germany may there
lore take honor to herself for having
the first hindrance in the way
ii the Mckinley bill, for her treaties
with the two small states OF South
America are Of the greatest importance
not only for US, but for the whole OF
Europe.
There is no talk in the above para
o in part Of the article, Of adj
'antage to the United States from these
.wo treaties, at least not to the United
States as n whole.
The Democratic party are supposed
o cooperate in tho advantages which
Germany and other European states de-
i've from a check to the policy which
las forced thom to admit our bacon aud
The Democratic party has not had
iuch n record in the past. 1t will be
admitted by most Democrats
hat neither Jefferson nor Jackson
would have travelled in such company.
But now there is no foreign interest
hat objects TO Democratic success,
md no known foreign interest wishing
or Republican success. The mass of
he Democratic parry, however, are as
oval to this country as they over were.