The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-24
THE LOSS OF MILLIONS.
Disastrous Effects of tho Wilson Sugar
 Trust Tarlff Eiil.

" Hcil JiiC ttcluOCIdblC parry uLu NAiS sugar trust enacted the sugar schedule of the Wilson tariff bill the measure destroyed the basis of reciprocity and would undo the great work of James G. Blaine.
 Every day'now brings news of some fresh example of the policy of retalia- ton which foreign nations are inaugu- rating against the United States. All ready the American people is begin ming to realize that the repeal of the reciprocity provision of the Mckinley law and the Blaine agreements would injurc the foreign trade of the United States millions and tens of millions of dollars annually. a.
 The open protest of Germany, made at the time the sugar schedule of the Wilson bill was pending in the senate, was the first intimation of foreign dis pleasure. Secretary Carlisle transmit ted the protest to the finance commit tee of that body, but the influence of the sugar trust with the democratic senators caused it to be ignored. Now Germany is prohibiting imports of American cattle and provisions, and in- sisting that her policy of retaliation against American products is justified, because the sugar schedule of the Will son tariff law violates solemn treaty compaets entered into with her by the United States.
 German influence has drawn Den mark into the policy of retaliation.
 France first indicated her intentions by shutting out American packers from all opportunity to compete for the con tract to supply the army with provi- sions. Now France has followed Ger many in putting an embargo on i'm ports of cattle from America, on the pretext of pleuro-pneumonia in the animals.
 Within few days there have been strong intimations that the new Aus trian minister, who has not yet even presented his credentials to the presi- dent, is charged to begin an attack up on this same sugar duty almost imme- diately; and if concessions cannot be secured, it is expected that Austro- Hungary probably will follow the ex- ample of Germany, France and Spain in retaliating upon the United States.
 With the first of January, the great republic of Brazil, with which our cx- port trade had doubled during three years of reciprocity, closed its ports to the admission of American products ut the reduced rates formerly given.
 Spain's damaging blow to American interests has been given in closing Cuban and Porto Rican ports to Amer tailed statement of the exports to Cuba during the months of September, October and November of 1884, as com pared with the same months during 1893, makes the shrinxage very plain. Taking the month of October in each year, the exports of flour shrank from 2s,737 barrels to 4,G3l; of corn, from 02,- 3G0 bushels to 1,072; of lard from 3,O31,- 2l9 pounds to 00,42l; of hams, from 477,26l pounds to 344,232; of bacon, from 540,72O to 260,46 pounds. The tables prepared by the exporters show ing the extent of the discrimination against United States products under the maximum tariff recently imposed by Spain have satisfied the state de- partment at Washington that there can be no opportunity for American trade unless these charges are abated. The great exporting houses of the At lantic cities are clamoring at the doors of the state department, and threaten to appeal to congress for some speedy action to protect their business. They report that at present the United States is losing trade of 700,O bar rels of flour per annum, all of our com merce in machinery, formerly pur- chased by the Cubans exclusively in the United States, all of the hardware and large proportion of the potato trade-a very important part of ourex ports to the West Indies. The total re- duction in our exports to Cuba for the year since the lapse of the reciprocity agreement will amount to not less than 50 per cent.
 These are but fragmentary instances of the disaster which the Wilson tariff, by repeating the reciprocity provision of the Mckinley act and the Blaine dBICCmthlo' Hdo DIOuBnb tO LHe ldTHl- CTS, manufacturers and exporters of the United States They indicate a loss of millions of dollars, which will react upon American industry and ramify through all it's departments, injuring labor and capital alike.
 But what else was to be expected of the great democratic party that, at Chicago in 1892, denounced Blaine reciprocity as fraud" and in 1894, while following the dictates O. the sugar trust, ruthlessly destroyed the great work of James G. Blaine in order that the sugar trust might rob American sugar consumers of millions of dollars and democratic senators line their pockets with gold acquired by Wall street speculation in the sugar trusts securities Albany Journal.
 gY The administration has n tariff war on its hands, and it hardly knows what to do with it. Had the reciproc- ity system been continued it would know precisely how to handle it; but it threw away the weapon of defense