The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-11-13
Calculation statement.
REGULATION of The Times for the week ended


$500 e'~',AhS 81 NUMBER OF gentlemen
interested ia foreign trade viii meet in
Washington. under the style of The
National Reciprocity Convention
From what we can gather of their Dur
poses, they are rather TO defeat than
10 promote reciprocity.
Republican leaders are greatly Der-
turbed because of the legacy of tariff
sound sense that the dead President
IeIt 10 the country. The late Mr.. Mo
kInley knew better than most men the
true lnwardness of the tariff question.
lie mad been a most intense protection
Isl, but after he had been some years
IN the White House he learned that a
policy which might be excellently
adapted 70 the profit of Ohio wool men
might also be fatal to the general com
mercldl interests of the country at
large. So he was beginning TO lead the
nation into the path Of tariff reform
when ne was suddenly and IamentabIv
cut of
In advance Of the meeting Of Con
gress. II Is interesting to note that his
protectiOnist party friends are making
desperate efforts to show that-hoU
shaH we express it-that what he said
he did not mean. Mr.. Mckinley WAS a
wise and thoughtful man. He realized
mat Manila and Santiago had Knocked
a hole in the old provincial theory rf
chinese Wall protection that never
could be repaired. He knew. as Presi-
dent Roosevelt knows. that the United
States as world power. cannot and
economic warfare against other com
mercial nations without exposing itself
10 serious recalcItration. Mir. McKiufa,-
mad the full confidence Of the peoDIe
When he, who had been the apostle of
nigh protection. declared that such a
policy no longer comported with the
interests Of the country. he knew that
the masses and the opponents of their
views IN Congress would be with him.
But In the very hour of his conversion
10 the scientific idea Of international
relations he was stricken down. Now
the partsans who pretended that they
loved and believed in him are endeav-
orlng 10 discredit his ripe conclusions
and policy The eminent gentlemen
VINO viii meet here next Tuesday will
attempt 10 convince the country that
nothing could be worse for us than ~
permit Americans to get the superior
tobacco Of Cuba at a reasona BILE urice
OF 10 import Cuban sugar in connect
uOn with the American beet. 1t is al
ways noticeable that our protectionists
have the greatest affection for the mo-
nopolist and not a solitary care for The
consumer.
This principle, II we may dignity il
BY such name, IS the lion in the path
Of our International relations. Reel
procity with the trading nations Of Eu.
rope Is not "a matter Of gratuitv on our
part II is the alternative TO the excIu-
sion of our products from the markets
Of the Old World. the United kingdom,
possibly excepted. In 1903 our principal
commercial treaties Will expire. Are We
10 renew them upon a reasonable basis
Of give and take. OF are We 10 shut
our grain, our machiEery and agricul-
tural implements out Of Europe2 Amer
lean monOpOlists seem unable 10 under
stand the truth that the day Of their
absolute domination is past. and that
they do not own the world We hone.
but not confidently. that Congress may
take an advanced view Of our CONNER
cial position with regard to other ma
uons, and save the American people
from the consequences Of a hoggish
policy The danger cannot be ignored.
We must be willing 10 deal equitabIy
with our neighbors. especially since we
give them judicial notice that they can
not promote their prosperity by OK
pansion within the cis-Atlautic henis-
phere.