The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-08-31
THEY DESIRE RECIPROCITY.
Our Successful Policy Has Stirred up Brit.
ish Jealousy.

Our Successful Policy Has stirred up Brit.
ish Jealousy.
The wonderful success of the reci-
pr ocity policy of the United States has
not failed to invite the jealousy Of
Great Britain. 1t must be admitted, too,
that for that jealousy there is ample
rea son. The control Of their own mar.
ket already threatened by the very ma
tions of whose manufacturing interests
England W ished to be master, British
manufacturers now find themselves de-
prived of the few neutral markets re.
naming open to them by this policy,
par ticipation in the benefits of which
their free trade system has rendered
impo ssible The prevailing sentiment
in En- gland on the reciprocity question
is well shown by comments like this
one from the Liverpool Murcury:
For months the foreign office has been en-
deavoring with all its force and diplomatic skill
TO obtain the renewal on better terms of the ex.
pirng commercial treaties. Result-nh. Fail.
ure all round. Nobody will have anything to
sa y to us, because we have nothing to offer
them. The motto do W des prevails in all the
commercial departments Of all the European
foreign offices. We have no duties to take off.
We can make none Of our markets freer to the
10 reigner than they are, For our benefit and
not for theirs we have invited them to sell what
ever we wished to buy without let or hindrance.
They, therefore, bitten by what Salisbury him.
self admits to be Il falacy, blandfy decline to
make any concession.
Besides the picture which it gives of
the rage felt by Englishmen because of
their folly in stripping themselves of the
weapons necessary for success in COM
mercial warfare, there is another state
ment in this paragraph which is worthy
of remark 1t is the confession that it
was:
For our CEngland's) benefit not for theirs,
that we have invited them to sell whatever wa
wished to buy, without let or hindrance
When England adopted free trade in
1916, she did it not for any sentimental
reasons of reducing commerce to a
beautiful love feast between the ma
tons 1t was done for hard business
reasons British manufacturers, after
hundreds of years of vigorous protec-
ton, felt themselves able to do the
manufacturing of the world; all they
wanted was open markets, and those
open markets were to be secured by the
adoption of free trade by other coun-
tries. Now that her example has not
been followed and that free trade has
been repudiated by all nations, England
commences to squirm, for she sees her
own supremacy waning. Protection,
reinforced by reciprocity, is the recog-
nized commercial policy of the day.
The American Cobdenite is hopelessly
in the minority.
THE New York Standard Watch Com
panv make watch which is a veritable
marvel. 1t contains twelve jewels, a
handsome dial, plated case, is made of
the best material throughout and whole
sales at considerable less than four dol
lars. A watch as good as it could not
be had for less than SIPS twenty years
ago. Yet the labor making that watch
receives not less than three dollars and
as high as seven and eight dollars a day.
Asked how such low prices and high
wages were possible, the president OF
the company, Mr.. w. c. Roberts, said:
"A single instance will answer the
question. A while ago the screws used
in that watch cost us fifteen cents q
thousand. Our superintendent n.
vented a machine which makes them a :
a cost of two and one-hah cents thou
sand. Such improvements have been
making constantly in the American
watch business, and they have finally
resulted in placing the American wa tch
~ cheapness. quality and beauty way
beyond comparison with any other
watch on earth"
EITHER TIN PLATE is produced in thi.
country or 1t is not If it is not, Their
the tin plate duty is a revenue duty, ex-
actly such one as the democratic plat
form advocates. II it Island there's o
the shadow of n doubt about it-trs
free traders stand convicted Of williu
and malicious falsifcaticn