Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-12-13
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IT PAYS TO &c STRONG.
The Clayton-Bulwerr treaty was rati-
fed on July 5. 1850. Within two years
the United States tried to secure It's
abrogation. The agitation against it
was kept up until 1850. when the Blu
chanan negotiations ended in a diplo-
matte triumph for England.
After the civil war Secretary Sew
ard reopened the question. but mnde
no progress. The British government
simply declined to discuss q new pol
Icy. President Grant took up the bur-
den in turn, but with no other result
than to produce fresh irritation in En-
gland. President Hayes acted with
more vigor than Grant, but with no bet
ter success.
On April 16. 1880. Congress directed
the President to take immediate steps
for the formal and final abrogation of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. In accord
ance with this resolution, Mr.. Blaine. in
1881, asked for the modification Of the
treaty. Lord Granville fatty refused to
accede to this request. .
After the death of President Garfield
Secretary Frelinghuysen took up the
discussion. He contended that England
had violated the Clayton-Bu lwer treaty
by her encroachments in Central Amer
lea. Lord Granville cited Buchanan's
acceptance of the English view in 1860
as closing the Ease against the United
States.
The question was reopened by the
Harrison administration, and was dis
russed by the Cleveland administration,
but no concessions were made by Eng
land. The question vas pressed during
McKinley's first term. but there was no
progress before the Spanish-Amerlcan
war.
After the treaty of Paris. however,
England made concessions. These were
not satisfactory, but they opened the
way for a compact which we are as
sured will terminate the Clayton-Bul-
wer treaty and leave the United States
free to build an American canal. This
is the treaty signed in Washington on
Monday.
We are now told by the London news
papers that England will lose nothing
by the abrogation of the Clayton-Bu
wer treaty, and will gain. through
American enterprise and friendship,
substantial commercial advantages.
Well and good. Yet for some reason
England never was able to see this as
pect of the case until the United States
demonstrated it's power in a foreign
war.
All of which goes to prove that it
pays to be strong as we'll as right
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Beet Sugar.
There was q period when the produc-
tion of beet sugar in this country re-
reived the warmest attention Of pro-
.ectionists. Through the Dingley tariff
beet sugar received an impetus that has
rooted beet sugar factories in n number
IF States, and enhanced the production
20 such an extent that in large stretches
IF territory the sugar trust has cut the
price of it's sugar below cost, that there
by it may force the beet-made sugar
out of the market. 1t is claimed that in
The last reduction made by the trust to
31aa cents a pound for granulated sugar
at Missouri River points, the price
named was below the cost of raw sugar
Oh the Atlantic coast.
1t is intimated if the plans of the
trust succeed in forcing the beet sugar
factories of Nebraska, Kansas and 9TH
er Western points and Pacific coast out
Of joint, it will then turn its attention
to the eastward and give the people
cheaper sugar for a period, so that the
beet sugar factories of Michigan and
some other beet sections will be forced
to lay down. But it is n singular thing
that protectionists who originally con-
tended for a good tariff rate upon sugar
to protect American industries should
now be found attacking the beet sugar
interests. If one American industry is
worthy Of protection, so r every one
Of the others. Protection cannot be
twisted around to convey the idea that
beet sugar people are monopolists, for
most surely If the growing industry Of
beet sugar is fostered monopoly, what
are all the other industries built up in
this country through the operations Of
protective tariffs?-Racine (WiA) Jour
nal.
Vital Principle of Reciprocity.
The industries of the United States
have been developed in the face of the
strongest opposition from competitors
who would have liked us to remain
tributary to their industries. In no
other way could this have been done
so quickly and effectively as by a tariff
which protected them from outside
competition until strong enough to
stand alone. And this should always
be borne in mind in making treaties of
reciprocity or they will prove more or