The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-12-07
RETALIATION NOT A GOOD SYSTEM
Other Means Advised TO Perfect Protec
ton of Our Markets.

Other Means Advised TO Perfect Protec
ton of Our Markets.
Our relations with the states of the
German empire are, in some aspects, typi-
cal of a condition of things elsewhere
found in countries whose productions and
| trade are similar to our own. The close
| rivalries of competing industries the in
huence of the delusive doctrine that the
internal development of a nation is pro-
NOTED and its wealth increased by a pol
icy which undertakes to reserve its home
markets for the exclusive use of its own
producers, necessarily obstructs their sale
in foreign markets and prevent free ac-
cess to the products of the world; the de-
| sire to retain trade in time-wOrn ruts
regardless of the memorable laws of new
needs and the changed conditions of de-
| mand and supply, and our own hating
hardness in inviting a free exchange of
| commodities, and by this means imperil-
| ing our footing in the external markets
naturally open to us, have created a sit
uation somewhat injurious to American
| export interests, not only in Germany,
where they are perhaps most noticeable.
| but in adjacent countries
The exports affected are largely Amer
lean cattle and other food products, the
reason assigned for the unfavorable dis
elimination being that their consumption
IS deleterious to the public health. This
is all the more irritating, in view of the
fact that no European state is as Jealous
Of the excellence and wholesomeness of
its exported food supplies as the United
states, nor so easily able on account of
Inherent soundness to guarantee these
qualities. Nor are these difficulties con-
fined to our food products designed for
expectation. Our great insurance COM
panies, for example, having built I'D a
vast business abroad and invested large
n a mn IF fIaafrs fra.-
n compliance with the local laws and
regulations then existing, now find them
selves within a narrowing circle of oner-
Gus and unforeseen conditions and are
confronted by the necessity of retirement
from field thus made improbable. if
indeed they are not summarily expelled.
rs some of them have lately been in Prus-
STA. 1t is not to be forgotten that inter
national trade can not be one-sided It's |
currents are alternating and its move |
mentS should be honestly reciprocal |
Without this it almost necessarily de-
generates into device to gain advantage
or contrivance to secure benefits with |
only the semblance of a return. In our
dealings with other nations we ought to !
be open-handed and scrupulously fair.
This should be our policy as a producing
nation, and it plainly becomes US as a
people who love generosity and the moral
aspect of national good faith and recip-
rocal forbearance. These considerations
should not, however constrain us to
submit to unfair discrimination nor to 81
lently acquiesce in vexatious hindrances
to the enjoyment of our share of the le-
climate advantages of proper trade rela.
tons. If an examination of the situation |
suggests such measures on our part as
would involve restrictions similar to those
from which we suffered, the way to such
course is easy. 1t should, however, by
no means be lightly entered upon since | .
the necessity for the Inauguration of
such policy would be regretted by the
best sentiment of our people, and because s
t naturally and logically might lead to
of the gravest character. !
1 take pleasure in calling to your atten- |
ion the encomiums bestowed on these ,
vessels of our new navy, which took part
n the notable ceremony of the opening 7
If the Kiel canal. 1t was fitting that this
achievement of the newer
German nationality should be celebrated
n the progress of American exposition
If the latest developments of the worlds
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