The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-11-17
"FOTHEkEIGN MARKETS."


If there is anything dearer to the
heart of free trader than all else ii
is the foreign market, says an eastern
exchange. For that has the homf
market been sacrificed. These pres
ent hard times are part of the pric,
to be paid for the privilege of sending
our surplus products TO other coun-
tries to be consumed.
In his London banquet speech Mr..
Wilson LAID special emphasis upon this
aspect of the tariff policv of the Dem
ocratic party. All, gentlemen, be
said in effect, you datter yourselves
that the new American tariff has
opened to you the markets CT the
United States, and soit has, but ]
warn yon that it will also open to my
countrymen the markets of the world,
and that your gain will be small as
compared with ours, and if cur gain is
your loss please remember in your day
of commercial eclipse that [ told yos.
so. At that very time markets in the
new world which the Mckinley law,
with it's reciprocity, had opened to our
people were being closed, and every
banqueter, except, perhaps, Mr.. Will
son, must have known it perfectly
well.
There is no record or indication
that any of the gentlemen took that
view of the case. They doubtless
guessed whether Professor Wilson was
such blind follower of theory, re-
gardless of fact, as to really believe
what he was saying. Or was he talk
ing for the hustings at home2 But to
the loss of the fourishing trade in
farm products and agricultural inple-
ments which was growing up with the
countries sonth of US must now be
added that far more serious matter,
the shutting of the gates of Germany
against American meat products, beef
especially. This is bound to percep-
tibly lessen the value of the live stock
on all our farms and ranches.
What, pray, is to make up to our
stock ralsers for this loss2 They can
not turn to sheep raising, for free wool
has ruined that business. The abro-
cation of the reciprocity treaties with
the countries south of us has lessened |
the demand for our -four. Turn where
we will, no compensation can be found
in all the markets of the world for
The curtailment under Democratic rule
Of the market for American products.
1t is only fair, however. to Mr. Will
ION and the free traders generally to
admit that the new tariff of congress-,
md the. construction put upon the
Iugar schedule by the treasury depart
nent do not deserve all the blame for
his loss of the German meat market.
A part of the responsibility rests upon
he broad shoulders and narrow fore
lead of j. Sterling Morton, secretary
# Agriculture. Secretary Morton is
he first cabinet officer, so far as we
ecall, to 60 junketing in foreign
ands while at the head of portfolio,
,ut the Republicans are glad he went
md sincerely hopes he will stay long
'nough to learn something of the sus-
,icion and jealousy of American meats
by foreign consumers
On his Nebraska farm he had con-
eived the idea that his predecessor,
Rusk, was squandering
money in his systematic inspection of
neat. Like Judas; he said, "Why all
his waste?" He cut it down to a mere
keleton of its former self, and then
i'd the people mark his economy.
However it was In this country, the
authorities took special note
f it, and eagerly seized upon the first
emblance of an excuse for putting up !
he bars which had been taken down
uring the last administration, through t
ne combined efforts of congress, the
resident, and Secretaries Blaine and
.usk. +
1t is no exaggeration to say that no e
w ever passed by congress did so @
luch to extend and increase the for i
gn commerce of the United States as '
he Mckinley law. Our exports to i
ermany alone increased $24, 100000 c
he first year. The free list was en- 7
.rged and our foreign trade in many
.nds and commodities stimulated. 1t
'oks now as if the Wilson law would :
0 more to restrict our exports than q
ny other law ever passed by congress. 5
certainly restricted rather than en- a
rged the free list, and all the way y
'om Germany to Brazil has tended to $
eprive our people of the foreign !,
arkets. L
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