The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-17
TRADE RE 3TRICTIONS.
How Blaine Knights of Reciprocity and
Free Traders Can Join Hands.


Free Traders Can Join Hands.
To The st. Paul Globe:
In the only daily in st. Paul which advo-
Gates greater Industrial freedom will you
kindly ask the editor of the Dispatch to ex-
PLAIN how the development of our trade with
Hawaii has been S imulated By the proposed
annexation, with its certainty of security OF
property and continued intelligent" (?) "fos-
tering of home industries"
We free traders lad always supposed the
development Of our trade with Hawaii was
Que TO the reciprocity treaty which gives US
sort of free trade with those islands,
And ask him to explain what he means by
this: 1T being now the settled policy of this
country to protect and develop home manu-
features and other trade, the capitalist nat
urally expects benefit to the Hawaiian in
vestcr in the extension Of that policy to the
little islands in the Pacific"
Cannot Hawaii ape the United States in
TINS matter of trade restriction just as New
south Wales did in 1892 OF 1894? II she did
ana ner People are as intelligent as they are
IN New South Wales, they would discard it
as r shey dld there. after two years trial.
This also is rather foggy: 'sAnnexat;on
VIII make those advantages which Hawaii
now enjoys permanent, and no longer Sc
cured merely by treaty and liable to be with
cfaWn ON short notice.
Which advantage, pray those of TRADE re
stflctlon Which that editor assumes is the
settled policy of this country, and, by treaty,
VI ,,in ~ some otner Nay manner, in the editor
mino, now extended to Hawaii or does he
rerer to those advantages which beth com
tIles ENJOY by reason OF the greater freedom
u n Spaee wn;ch the reciprocity Testy secures
does not the editor of the Dispatch see
@nat an advantage 1t is to both the United
STATES ard Hawaii to have uurss ricted trade
VIII e1ch cher, and is not this the advantage
mnicn ne mas IN mind when he speaks Of an
neXatlon making permanent the ADVANTAGES
tt gre now secured by a reciprocity
os put beng a. trade restrictionist, be-
cause ne Is Republican he must needs tr,,
10 make 1t appear that the advantages ~
Mncn ne speaks are due to "protection ;,
hence his confusion.
wish you would also ask tho 5;.
the Dispatch is he does moi think II Iud;oro, VI
ior grown man, supposed to be in full nos
session OF his faculties to maintain that con-
Hawji arising from unrestricted trade with
laval Woulo be Injurious to our Iaborers and
capitalists with Hawaii not anneyed III
upon annexation it would immediafeIv heccro
NJ ohly not injurious, but beneficial: thai
~ aue WIN Puerto Rico. the Philippine island ;.
VI any otner province or country which "a
contends is now injurious would in,madiota
~ peCome beneficial with any or all n thoca
1slahds or countries, which we might anney
~ you not suppose such economists (pardon
1 H! cnaIacter1zatfon) as the editor of the
Dispatch have discernment enouoh 70 CO.. ~ '.
tne unrestricted trade of the peonla of +hiS
country must soon be extended beyond n-asant
u l. boundaries. and seeing no way to do
Tic pOlltlCal influence which
trade restriction policy has enabled tban
TO maintain with those who are uninformed in
economies, except by entering upon a no1icn
oI territorial extension, they advocate tha
anheAauon OF Hawaii and other Islands of th =
sea, with their ignorant, turbulent betero-
seneous, ioW-Wage populations, who are in
capable OF self government thinking tins to
keep their party in power and make 6Isces fo.
poitlcal parasites? Such a poIiav won1d
burden our politics with questions of "coIoriai
government, foreign policy" and ccnstant-
~ emproll US with the powers of the w1rId
ana az, more important still, to the Iaborer ard
tne FARMER, almost Indefinitely POSTPONE III )
settiement Of questions such as that of sb ide-
ing the power of the politician by b,insinq
the making of the laws nearer the reor1s
taAation ard the land question
Inc uncomplicated and the natural wav N
secure all the advantages, and at tbe sa,n
time escape all the disadvantages of anneYa-
tlon, Is to secure treaties which will give ne
complete reciprocal free trade relations viii
tnose Islands, and all other islands End I'll
other countries, for that matter. then as
Iar as advantages of trade are concerned we
would practically have annexed the NboIe
. world and that without being troubled with
us government drawn into its controversies
ana wars: In such a policy, true RIains
knlghts of reciprocity and free traders cnn!d
'A --"nuS' "A. ]. Gray