Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-11-08

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would otherwise look to us as their
principal source Of supply To remove
this barrier, partly OF wholly, at the
same time that I'VE made necessary re-:
ductions ii our own tariff ratGss, was d
master stroke of the highest statesman:
ship. TWAS provided; accordingly, IN
the MeKinley bill. that while sugar. teal
coffee and hides were to be admitted
free of duty, this should only apply to
such countries as imposed reasonable
tariffs upon ouf own products. IL the
duties Of any country were held to be
unreasonable; the entry from il Of these
articles could be suspended. This ID
The Only Wise Policy of Trade;
Not to give things away, but to barter
one advantage for another. The time
was TOO short for this policy to work
put its best results, and the period dufs
Ing which it was in force was one at
general and increasing commercial d6.
preston. It proved, nevertheless, to be
OF the highest benefit to the United
States. It made this country the IA
vored market for purchasing by those
Who produced sugar, tea, coffee and
hides; it turned tie eyes Of ali the
South American people to the United
States as the country with which ii was
net only natural, but profitable to
conclude the closest trade rela-
tons. Soon after the Mckinley ill
became law, reciprocity agreements
were concluded that gave encourage
ment and a new impulse to cur exports.
For the productions Of our fields and
factories there was q new demand. and
expansion Of our foreign commerce
under the influence Of reciprocity Was
Ono OF the Most Marked Features
of q time of otherwise languishing
international trade. Under the McKin-
ley act commercial treaties were con-
cluded with Guatemala, Honduras, Sal
v;,dor, Nicaragua, Costa RIGA, Santo
Domingo, Brazil, the Spanish colonies
Of Cuba and Porto Rico, the British
colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barba-
does, Guiana and the Leeward and
Wind'Ward islands in America, and
Austro-Hungary ard Germany in Eu-
rope BY these treaties the countries
named secured the free admission into
the United States for their sugar, tea
coffee, hides, rubber, and certain other
products; they i'll turn admitting free
from the United States, wheat flour,
corn and corn meal, rye and rye flour,
buckwheat and barley, butter and
cheese, lard, hay, oats, cottonseed oil,
picked and salted pork and bacon, luln-
Der and manufactures Of wood, agricul
tural implements, mining machinery,
and long list of other manufactured
products. They admitted at only half
their regular duties another list of COM
mo>iities, such as cutlery AMI othsr
hardware, earthenware, furniture, pre-
served and canned goods, and various
minor articles. They admitted at three
fourths of their regular duties still an
Q her list, somewhat shorter and less
i,nportan than the foregoing.
a Single and Striking Iilus.ras,on
may stand for the whole: The ex:o.t
of American flour to Cuba, prior to this
arrangement, was almost prohibited by
duty of over So a barrel, OF more than
the entire cost at the points OF ship
ment. Reciprocity decreased this duty
to about one-half, with q corresponding
effect upon our exports. From 1876 to
1891 our imports from Cuba were great
or than our exports to Cuba by $780,
2,5l2 For those IL years the average
exports 90 Cuba We're ST., 793,4o6 but
commencing in 1891, the year of our
reciprocity agreement, there was an
enormous increase in all lines of trade.
In that year our exports; We're slightly
over $ls 100000; in 1892 they rose to
nearly $4,000, 900, and in 1898 they
amounted to SEA, 1871, Cos, or moro than
double what they had been i'll any year
under the old system The effect O:
the new policy upon the whole trade is
shown by an export of ia, AT barrels
in 1891, rising to 366, IT'S in 1892, and to
616,436 III 1898. This great body of
trade
Has Been Destroyed at a Blow.
The nations with which we concluded
reciprocity treaties are justly angerad at
our vacillating policy. As soon as the
new tariff law went into effect Spain
served notice that the reciprocity agree
ment could no longer be enforced; and
already the old prohibitory duties upon
imports from the United States to Cuba
has been restored. By q stroke of the
pen we have signed away that market
for our products TO the advantage of 10
one outside of the sugar trust. Of that
loss the farmers and the milling in or
ests Of Minnesota viii have to bea
more than their share.
Second to none of the advantages of
reciprocity was the opening Of the mar
kets in Austria and Germany for our
provisions and breadstuffs in exchange
for free entry for their beet root sugar.
It is 1,ndeniable that, if this policy had
been permitted to develop naturally and
complete it's work: it would in time
have
Doubled. Gu. Foreign Trade
and made markets all over the World
for those surplus products whose super
abundance anectS prices anu prcHtS SO
disastrously. But all this fair scheme
| Of trade has Loen cverthrOwn
recklessly by the new tariff law,
and the countries that have made
concessions to US, e1asperated
now by this brusque and causeless re,
versal of cur former policy, will here
| after be rs unyielding as they We're
heretofore inclined to be generous OF
ell the ruinous effects of tariff agitation
and tariff legislation within the last two
years, it is doubtful if any can take pre-,
cedence in the sum total Of its evil con.
sequences of the abandonment Of reel
procity.
RSoorsliiners and Officers Fight.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Sept. lY.-News
has just been received in this city OF
battle between moorshiners and rev
enue officers in Pine county Deputy
T. B. Crimson was instantly killed by :
niconshiner named Jim Cook
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