Morris tribune., 1892-05-11
Great Victory of Protection.

EDITOR TRIBUNE: Please permit
me to make a few remarks on the
great victory of protection in the col
umns of your valuable paper. The
fact that j. G. Blaine has accom-
plished new reciprocity treaty with
one of our South American neighbors
is gratifying one from the stand
point of protection and will undoubt-
edly add another laurel to the many
already gathered by the "Plumed
Knight" 1t is true the great states
man from Maine has accomplished
what no other American statesman
ever thought of and he well deserves
the eulogies which his penegyrists let
appear in the Republican press OF
this country. 1t is very deplorable
that this great statesman the light
of the nineteenth century will not
allow his name to be presented to the
national convention in Minneapolis.
Protectionists really ought to force
this great statesman to the presidency
for there is no greater man in their
ranks than James G.. Blaine. If he
never had done great thing before
and | cannot remember single
one-the reciprocity treaty with Mica
ragua is enough to make him the
greatest man of his party.
have said once before in the col
umns of the TRIBUNE that Blaine's
reciprocity scheme was nothing more
or less than protection running mad,
and his reciprocity treaties prove that
was right. From the day this treaty
goes into power Nicaragua can i'm
port from the United States horses
and cattle free, if they should happen
to take notion to buy some of our
surplus horses and cattle, because
their government, through the oc-
casion of Secretary of State Blaine,
has decided to abolish the tariff on
the same when they are bought in
the United States. should like to
hear from some protectionist how
many bushels of wheat and barrels of
pork it will take to supply the demand
of this new opened market, and how
many horses and cattle will be allowed
to emigrate to that country of eternal
summer from the q. S. and stand on
an equal footing with the native Mica
ragua horses and cattle. hope they
will not buy too many from us SO as
to make a scarcity in the home mar
ket and raise the prices too high; so
high that many poor man might not
be able to buy a COW for housekeep-
ing purposes.
[ will state right here that have
not only detected danger in this
clause of the treaty which may hurt
the poor man, but there is a danger
in it which may seriously hurt the
rich man some day too, if the drain
on our home market should be too
strong. It seems to me that Mr..
Blaine has overlooked it entirely or it
must have slipped his mind. But as
1 don't know of anybody else to have
detected this danger will not mention
it to anybody because Mr.. Blaine
might get mad at me. Only upon his
own request I will answer it to him ,
but to nobody else. Now let me go
back to our COWS. I feel more at home
among them, far more than when [
am talking to a big man.
How big our COWS will feel when
they walk through the Nicarauguan
custom house without having to pay
the pauper tax, which her sisters from
Canada have to pay when they come
to the States. Then when she steps
on natural ground she is not compelled
to wear paper on her horns-if she
has any-with "tariff paid" written
on it-a genuine free COW, no pauper
blemish on her.
This latest product of Blaine's
craftsmanship IS really the greatest
honor which ever mortal being could
have bestowed upon our beloved cows,
the scrubs as well as the higher blood
ed ones, and if this will not make
them carry their heads higher and
their tails on level with their back
bone, I don't know what ever will
make them do it. A Nicaraugan far
mer may now import some blooded
stock to improve his herd without pay
ing special import tax on the same,
while the American farmer has to pay
a custom house fine of ten dollars for
every head of cattle that crosses the
boundary line, for the bosses of the
protectionists party have no liking for
the foreign pauper COW, even if was a
daughter of Mary Ann Lamberton,
the famous butter producer of Cana
da. If a Nicarauguan farmer wishes
to buy horse to match the one he
possesses already, he can make plea
sure trip on the Atlantic or Pacific
ocean, just as his notions may direct
him, and go to the United States and
by one and take it home without pay
ing the import tax; but the American
farmer when he swaps horses with his
next door neighbor, if it happens that
the boundary line runs between his
house and his neighbours, he pays $50
per head to take the paupers across
the line. Why did Mr.. Blaine in this
treaty compel the Nicarauguan gov
eminent to let horses and cattle come
into their country free? think he
did it for the same reason he said the
Mckinley bill did not open market
for one bushel of wheat or barrel of
pork-to catch the farmers vote. It
took nearly twenty years to educate
the people about our protective tariff,
and the $4,000 votes which Cleveland
received more than the protectionists'
candidate taught Blaine the lesson
that the people had comprehended
the tariff question. Something en-
tirely new had to be invented and he
popped out his reciprocity scheme,
and if it would take another twenty
years to educate the people what re-
ciprocity is, then everything would be
all right. Twenty years more of such
dizziness in the heads of the people
would enable our aristocrats to give
us government according to their
hearts desire and dictate their laws to
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