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

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has nlwayp been tbs high duties 81 NH
commod titles imposed ~ nations which " u
would otherwise look to as IS thei1.
principal source of supply. TO remove.
this barrier, partly Of wholly, At the
same time that we made necessary re:
ducti1ns id our own tai'iff rdttgss, WIS 4
master stroke Of the highest statesman:
ship: II was divided; accordingly ID
the MeKinley BILL that While sugar. tei si
coffee and hides were to be admitted
free Of duty, this should only apply to
such countries as imposed reasonable
tariffs upon our own products. If the
duties Of any country were held to be-
tinreaso liable; the entry from il Of these
articles could be suspended. This ID
Tho 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 dur.
Ing which it Was il, force was one one at
general and increasing commercial d5.
preston. It proved, nevertheless, to be
Of the highest benefit to the United
States. It made this country the "a.
vored market for purchasing by those
Who produced sugar, tea, coffee aud
hides; it turned the eyes Of ali the
South American people to the United
States as the country with which ii was
hot only natural, but profitable tu
conclude the closest trade rela-
tons. Soon after the Mckinley bill
became q law, reciprocity agreements
were concluded that gave encourage
nlent and q new impulse to eur exports.
For the productions Of cur fields and
factories there was q new demand. and
expansion Of our foreign commerce
under the influence Of reciprocity was
One 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
vador, 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
WindWard 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 in 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 sailed pork and bacon, lum-
Der and manufactures Of wood, agricnl
tural implements, mining machinery,
and q long list of other manufactured
products. They admitted at only half
their regular duties another list of COM
mo>iities, such as cutlery ana Other
hardware, earthenWare, furniture, pre-.
served and canned goods, and various
minor articles. They admitted at three
fourths of their regular duties still an
her list, somewhat shorter and less
important than the foregoing.
a Single and Striking Illustration
may stand for the whole: The OK. OFT
of American -four to Cuba, prior to this
arrangement, was almost prohibited by
o duty of over So a barrel, or 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 Cur imports from Cuba were great
or than our exports to Cuba by $685.
13s,5l2. For those Is years the average
exports TO Cuba We're Si1, 79s, 400, but
commencing in 1891, the year of our
reciprocity agreement, there was an
enormous increase in all lines OF trade.
lii that year our exports; We're slightly
over sl22, COO, COO; in 1892 they rose to
nearly $4,000, 900, and i'll 1893 they
amounted to sa a44 Isl, Cos, or moro than
double what they had been in 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 3G6, It's in 1892. and to
GIG, 1876 i'll 1893. This great body of
trade
Has Been Destroyed at BLOW.
The nations with which we concluded
reciprocity treaties are justly angersd 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 no
one outside of the sugar trust. OF that
loss the farmers aud the milling in or
ests Of Minnesota will have to bea
more than their share.
Second to none of tho 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.
is nndeniable that, if this policy had
been permitted to develop naturally and
complete its work. it would in time
have
Doubled On. Foreign Trade
and made markets all over the World
for those surplus products whose super
abundance affects prices and profits so
disastrously. But all this fair scheme
Of trade has Leen cyerthrOWn
recklessly by the new tariff law,
and the countries that have made
concessions to US, e1aspsrated
now by this brusque and causeless re-
versal of cur former policy, will here
after be as unyielding as they were
heretofore inclined to be generous. OF
all the rninous 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 abando comment Of reel.
procity.
Ssoonslsiners md Ofacors Eight.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, Sept. News
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