The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-24
PubIic's interests In 1t.

any of the above articles will have at
least 10 per cent of interest in seeing
the treaty ratified by the senate. All
the above articles would become cheaper
and more plentiful, if not better in quail
ity. Many of the articles are made also
In the United States. The American man.
ufacturers would have to cut their pric-
es to meet the French prices or lose cus-
tom. The treaty touches the dweller in
the city or the country at many points.
He mas to buy clothes and wants to get
them as good and as cheap as possible,
whether made at home or abroad Wom-
en- will wear hats, and they are interest
ed In getting them and the trimmings as
beautiful and as cheap as possible: SO Of
shlfts and underwear, of linen or cotton,
for both sexes. Everyone who eats can
ned peas. preserved fruits, macaroni,
nuts or salad with olive oil dressing
STANDS to have his or her tax reduced
Writing paper Is daily need, and the
paper trust of the United States is daily
raising, the price. All camera cranks
would be glad to see the price of supplies
cut down; young and old couples furnish
ing house might like to have beautiful
furniture at lower prices. And so on,
as wealth increases and people want to
build house or be gay, they will be
interested to have cheaper window glass
or jewelry
What We Would Get.
That is one point of view-the side OF
the common everyday consumer Next
comes the question as To What this coun-
try is to give France in tcada for the
privilege Of our market for the above
exports. In order to understand the pro-
visions of the treaty in this respect 1t
must be explained that France is a pro-
lection nation like ourselves. She has a
hovr iv,I, I'D,
competition. But for countries which
give her low tariffs she has low tariffs in
return. She has her commercial friends
and those who are not her friends At
present the United States is not Frances
friend. We enjoy no favors. The high
est rates of tariff which she has are
levied on goods sent to France from the
United States.
Now, under the proposed treaty France
offers to put the United States on her
friendly list. With the exception of nine
teen articles which we produce. France
offers to give us the benefit of her low
est rates if we will make the reductions
above referred to. The excepted sched-
ules are as follows: Horses, butter. lu-
cerne and cloverseed, fodder, cast iron.
skins and hides prepared; boots and
shoes and parts of the same, belt and
cords and other leather articles manu-
Idclured lOr machinery, dynamOs, ma
chine tools, dynamo conductors and
parts arc lamps known as regulators.
sugar, chicory roots, eggs, cheese, honey.
porcelain, cardboard, rough and in
sheets.
With the exception of the above-nam
ed articles, France proposes to give This
country the benefit of her minimum tar
IFS. Experts who have made careful ex-
animation of the present and propose1
tariff schedule claim that there are at
least $50 articles on which the United
States would get the benefit of sul.stan-
tial reductions under the French treaty..
The opposition to this French re..:proc-
ity treaty is almost entirely from the
knitting mills in Ole township III Con-
necticut. Senator .,rviiie It. of that
state, represents rs zeal Interest. and
he is powerful emo isii apparentls TO de-
feat the entire treaty for fear the pror-
its of these knitting mills will be r. due
ed. 1t is the claim that the ~ per cent
reduction on Frenen knit goods would
ruin these particular mills; whether the
claim is true Oh not, 1t is enough to put
spoke in the wheel of reciprocity; also
it shows again that tariff is local is
sue, and that senators represent inter
ests and not people-locaiities and not
the country.