Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-12-13
RETALIATION NOT GOOD SYSTEM
other Means Advised to Perfect Protec
tion of Our Markets.

other Means Advised to Perfect Protec
tion 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
fuence 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 it's home
markets for the exclusive use of it's 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 ime-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 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 up a
vast business abroad and invested large
t.t.
In 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 a field thus made Improbable, If
indeed they are not summarily expelled,
as some of them have lately been in Prus-
sia. 1t is not to be forgotten that inter
national trade can not be one-sided. Its
currents are alternating and it's move
ments should be honestly reciprocal
without this 1t almost necessarily de-
generates into a device to gain advantage
or a continuance 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 1t plainly becomes us as Q
people who love generosity and the mora
| aspect of national good faith and recip
| rocal forbearance. These considerations
| should not, however, constrain US tt
| submit to unfair discrimination nor to 81
| lently acquiesce In vexatious hindrance.
| to the enjoyment Of our share of the lie
| climate advantages of proper trade rela
lions. If an examination of the situation
/ suggests such measures on our part a;
i would involve restrictions similar to thos,
from which we suffered, the way to sucl
course is easy. 1t should. however. b,
| no means be lightly entered upon, sine
| the necessity for the Inauguration o
such a policy would be regretted by thu
best sentiment of our people, and becaus
1t naturally and logically might lead t.
| consequences of the gravest character.
take pleasure in calling to your atten
ton the encomiums bestowed on thes
| vessels Of our new navy, which took par
in the notable ceremony of the openin
of the Kiel canal. 1t was fitting that thi
extraordinary achievement of the newe
German nationality should be celebrate
in the progress of American exposition
of the latest developments of the world
| naval energy