The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-01-14
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| It now turns out that the Republican
blow of the increased trade with Brazil,
because of Blaine reciprocity, is all
| blow, with no facts to back IT.
The Associated Press, that powerful
organ of the Republican party, some
/ time since informed us that under the
reciprocity treaty with Brazil, locomo-
tives and railway supplies from the
| United States are admitted free. Ihls
was held as master stroke for reci-
procity, under which American engines
would take the place of locomotives OF
| English make.
It now turns out that as early as
June, 1890, q bulletin was sent out Dy
the Bureau of American Rep lblics,con
tanning the Brazilian tariff of 1870, In
full, in which locomotives, turn tables
and any other articles not classified, for
railway uses, we're made free. -,
In view of this the bombastic dis
patch sent out last October, by the AS
sociated Press, announcing the snip
| ment of twenty-four locomotives 10
Brazil, and another to the effect That
one concern has under contrac' 20 de-
liver 228 in Braxil, ell on account OF
reciprocity, becomes ridiculous. AT the
time of this shipment the dispatches
said locomotives and railway sup
plies from the United States
are admitted free of customs,
and the railway equipment of that
Republic, which was formerly almost
exclusively of English manufacture, is
now being rapidly replaced by articles
of American manufacture"
The truth is that reciprocity has
| nothing to do with this shipment and
ethers quoted, for railroad supplies
were free before Blaine made his treaty
with Brazil. American locomotives
have been in demand in Brazil, not
| because of either tariff or treaty, but
| because the American locomotive Is
| better suited to the wants of Brazil
than the heavy locomotive OF English
| make. For the same reason one of the
Australian colonies has just rejected
| an English proposition and bought its
| locomotives of the United States. The
American locomotive will run on a
cheap track; the English locomotive
must have an expensive roadbed and
cannot be afforded unless the traffic is
| In immense proportion to the mileage
AS early as 1885 We began to ship
| locomotives and railway cars to Brazil
in quantities, and for the four
years ending June 30, 1890, we
| exported TO Brazil 105 locomotive
| S2l cars for steam railroads, and 8,O72
carwheels. We shipped IL locomotives
| in 1888, 32 in 1889 aud Al in 1890; of
cars, 80 in 1888, 221 in 1889, and 515 in
1890. The ratio of increase, it will be
seen, is gradual but steady and without
Reciprocity the market for United
States supplies was already assured
In the face of these facts how absurd
1t is to read that "as the result of Rec
iprocity the BraZillans are buying loco
motives in this country instead Of
England"
We are told, also, that one of the
concessions under Reciprocity" made
by Brazil was that American wheat
should be admitted free; but wheat was
on the free list four years before Rec
iprocity was evolved from the fertile
brain of James &. Blaine.
Coal, we we're told, would also be ad-
mitted free; but coal was on the free
list four years ago.
Agricultural implements and machin-
cry were made much of aud glowing
pictures were drawn of how the United
States would make tho seas groan
heavily with her inventions, thanks to
Blaine and RECIPROCITY; but agri-
cultural implements and machin-
cry have been free for years,
railway construction material and
equipment we are told have been made
available to the Brazilian market by
Reciprocity; but railway bars were free
in 1885, and as has been Indicated, 10
comotlves. turntables and any other
articles used in railway building were
free to the world before the Reciprocity
treaty was signed.
On breadstuffs, other than wheat,
which was free before, we receive some
concessions, as we'll as our lumber and
manufactures of wood, but the duties
on cereals were never high, and we had
virtual control of the Brazilian mark
cts on all these things before. So that
the claim of the Administration organs
that 1.-The great Southern Republic was
to large extent, new and unknown
field so far as American commercial
experience and enterprise were con-
cerned," until opened by Reciprocity,
is the veriest bosh.
Our trade has largely increased with
Brazil, but in was increasing before,
and as Reciprocity did not put wheat,
railway engines and supplies, agricul-
tural implements and general machin-
cry on the free list, having been placed
there by Brazil before, and as these
things are about all we send
there the characterization of the news
papers efforts to exalt reciprocity as a
discovery of the ages, may properly be
classed with the humbugs of the tin
plate mills and pewter dips.
To Fred. Perry Powers, who contrib.
utes some "cold facts" to Belford's
Magazine for January, the reading pub
lie will be under obligations for valua-
BILE statistics, which show how little we
owe to Blaine and reciprocity for our
growing trade with Brazil, notwith-
standing the snowy comparisons" in
Blaine's letter to the President, and. the
carefully arranged dispatches of the
Associated Press.