The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-04
FARMER am sIERcaANr.
VIVA. the Free Traders Hays Done with
Thsir Ryo- Wide Open.

What the Free Tnders HaYe Done WITH
Thsir Ryos wide Open.
BoEoA csaAaeiei BrEatA-
The farmers Of tho country should re-
member that at a time when wheat il
Internationally low, their friends. thu
tariff reformsrs, have caused the closing
TO them Of q market which took eight
hundred thousand barrels OF American
-four per annum. And 1t was not done
In Ignorance, or either, for II was well
enough understood what the imposition
Of the cent aud q quarter duty would
have on the Spanish West lDdia trade.
It was known that Spain wonld retail
ate, and she has done 20. Not only II
the valuable trade in hour ruined, ou'
that In provisions and other farm pro,
ducts crippled by tho re-imposttion oil
the high duties from which the feeip-
rocity policy relieved US.
Under the new schedule the duties
on -four have been increased from 30
cents or 81 to 81 20 per hundred kilos,
and on corn from % cents to $ 50. The
following articles, which were formerly
free when imported into Cuba from the
United States, are now duhable pei
hundred kiios: Lard, $40: hams, 81 59i
bacon, SO; salt beef, 81 80; fruits, s. %;
Goldfish, 8; oyestors and salmon, 8 3d.
hay, 90 cents; beans, s. %; potatoes,
81 so; lumber (per l,000l. 81 %. The
duties on coal, machinery and manu-
features Of iron, wood and cotton have
also been largely increased.
The West Indian markets arc at our
doors and We are the natural source Of
supply, not only in natural but in man
ulactured products. The tariff reform
era claim to favor extending our mar.
keta abroad. They talk unctuously oil
the markets OF the world. yet the first
thing they do Is TO upset an arrange
ment by which We had virtual posses
sion OF the markets Of Cuba and Porto
Rico on many products OF the farm and
factory, and under which our exports
increased from Sll, 297, l9S in 1889 to
$2S. 804, 094 Ia 1893. British trade With
Cuba has almost become thing OF the
past" notes the English nsul.general
at Havana in regard to the reciprocity
treaty. "The effect has been TO throw
nearly the entire Cuban trade into the
hands OF the United States traders"
More than this, the Brazilian govern
ment has given notice Of the termina'
ton OF the reciprocity arrangement
with that country, under which our ex-
ports OF farm produce and manufactures
under the favoring clausea OF the
treaty. rosc from Sl5,64S,525 in 1889 to
more than twenty-three millions in
1892. Now that market which took in
flour over 100000 barrels in that year,
and $4,000 barrels last year, when
trade was disarranged by the civil war.
is thrown to the Argentine Republic,
Besides breadstufls, Brazil admitted
free hay, salt pork, salt and canned
6sh, machinery, tools and implements
and articles OF railroad construction.
American flour is now subject to duty
of 81 % per barrel; corn, rye aud bar
Icy grain or meaD, three cents per
pound; pork and bacon, three cents;
cotton seed oil, five cents; salt fab, It
cents.
Brazil also allowed remission Of %
per cont Of duty on lard, bacon, butter
and cheese, lumber. manufactures OF
cotton, certain manufactures OF leather,
wood and rubber. Now these great adj
yantages have been sacrificed.
Wasn't il rather high price to pay,
the sacrifice Of this trade, for the pueri!e
purpose OF showing spite ut tho Harri-
son administration and illustrating the
tariff for revenue doctrine by levying q
tax Of II cents on raw sugar, which be-
fore was free.