The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-09-06

have upueF tue AueTiCdH nag, one OI
the finest steamship lines sailing out of
New York for any European port. This
contract will result in the construction in
American yards of four new passenger
steamships of 10, 600 tons each, costing
about 80, 600, 900, and will add to our
naval reserve six steamships-the fastest
upon the sea. The patriotic people, the
workmen in our shops, the capitalists
seeking new enterprises, must decide |
whether the great ships owned by |
Americans which have sought American
registry shall again humbly ask place |
in the English naval reserves; the great
sh ps now on the designers tables 90 to
foreign shops for construction, and the
United States lose the new, Frightening
opportunity of recovering place com
mensurate with its wealth, the skill of
its constructors ana the courage of its
sailors, in the carrying trade of all the
seaS.
The Reciprocity Idea.
Another related measure as furnishing
an increased ocean traffic for our ships
and of great and permanent benefit to the
farmers and manufacturers as we'll, Is the
reciprocity policy declared by section
three Of the tariff act of 1890, and now in
practical operation with five of the ma
tions of Central and South America, San
Domingo, the Spanish and Brisish West
Indian Islands, and with Germany and
Austria, under special trade arrangements
with each. Great credit is due to Mr.
Blaine for the vlgor with which he
pressed this upon the country. We have
only begun to realize the benefit of these
trade arrangements. The work of Great
ing new agencies and of adapting our
goods to new markets has necessarily
taken time; but the results already at
tanned are such, / am sure, as to establish
in popular favor the policy of reciprocal
trade, based upon the free imortation of
such articles as do not injuriously com
pete with the products of our own farms,
mines or factories, in exchange for the
free or favored introduction of our pro-
ducts into other countries.
Trade Increase Discussed.
A few details only as to the increase of
our trade can be given here. Taking all
the countries with which such arrange
ments have been made, our trade to June
80, 1892, had increased 237S per cent
with Brazil the increase was nc arly II
| pei CCut Will OuOd, uulluS TIC Ill USu
months our exports increased S.. 702, 1913,
or "a. S6 per cent; and with Porto Rico
$500, $50 or 81 per cent. Party by rea
son of the reciprocal trade agreement,
but more largely by reason Of the removal
of the sanitary restrictions upon Ameri-
can pork, our export of pork products to
Germany increased during the ten months
ending June 30, last, 50, 025 074, or
about 50 per cent. The democratic plat
form promises a repeal of the tariff
law containing this provision and cspec-
tally denounces as ''sham reciprocity
that section of the law under which
these trade arrangements have been
made. If no other issue were involved
in the campaign this alone would give il
momentous Importance. Are the farm
ers of the great grain growing States
willing to surrender these new, large and
increasing markets for their surplus2 Are
we to have nothing in exchange for the
free importation of sugar and coffee
, and at the same time to destroy the sugar
planters of the South and the beet in
dustry of the north west and Of the Pa
, citic coast; or are we to have the taxed
, sugar and coffee, which a ''tariH fol
revenue only" necessarily involves, will
the added loss of the new mar
!. kets, which have been open
ed Our commercial rivals in Europ
do not regard this reciprocity as
"sham," but as serious treat to trad
: supremacy they have long enjoyed
:. They would rejoice-and if prud ence di'
: not restrain, would illuminate their de
. depressed manufacturing cities-over tn
@ @ news that the United States had aban
doned its syseem of protection and re
=, ciprocity. They see very clearly that
restriction of American production an
y trade and corresponding increase c
. European production and trade woul
- follow, and | will not believe that wha
- is so plain to them can be hidden frol
: our own people.
II ssAmerican Doctrine of Protection.
If The declaration of the reform in favo
n of ''the American doctrine of protection
e has my most hearty approval. The col
+; principle that is to control all tariff sche(
IS ules. There may be differences of opinio
le among protectionists as to the rate upC
e particular articles necessary to effect 6
~ equalization between wages abroad an
ii | dG uOluc. LII SOulc uUG IcluOUc udUlOu
le campaigns the issues have been, or mo
lie correctly. have been made to appear
ID be, between high and low protecti,
lie tariff both parties expressing some S
r licitous regard for the wages of 0,
ut working people for the prosperity of OF
of domestic industries. That under mo-
o. courageous leadership, the democrat
ry party has COW practically declared tina
y. if given power, it will enact
s. tariff law without any regard to its etfe
st upon wages or upon the capital investe
I'd in our great industries. The overwhelr
he ing rejection of the tariff propositions
ct the report of the majority of the comm
ur tee on resolutions which had before r
he ceivcd the sanction of democratic N
he tional conventions, was not more Indie
ms tive of the new and more courageo
or leadership to which the party has nc
o. committed itself than the substitu
id which was adopted. This substitute d
DIS clares that protective duties are unco
es stitutional-high protection, low prote
he tion-all unconstitutional. A democrat
dy Congress holding this view cannot ena'
of nor a democratic President approve, a
an tariff schedule, the purpose
or effect of which is to limit importatio
Ks. or to give any advantage to an Americ
ch workman or producer. A bounty migl
re- Judge, be given to the importer, und
we this view of the constitution, in order
he increase importations, and so the rt
- enue for "revenue only" is the lmitati(
,ur Reciprocity, of course, falls under t
var denunciation, for its object and eff
It's, are not revenue but the promotion
St commercial exchanges, the profits
nts which 60 wholly to our producers. T
cir Obstructive un-American doctrine v
ter not held or taught by the historic den
of cratic statesmen whose fame as Anne
IN can patriots has reached this generation
eat certainly not by jefferson or Jackson. I
ere made crusade against American shops
US bitter epithets applied to American m