Arizona republican., 1901-10-02
RECIPROCITY FIGHT
Roosevelt Will Support the
 Pending Treaties
Backed by Him There is Hope of Their Adoption-The Prejudice of Man ufacturers is the Greatest Ob- stacle.

| washington, Oct. l.-keciprOclty VIII
 probably be the keynote and character 1 istic feature of the administration of | President Roosevelt, as it was to have
 been of the second administration of 1 President Mckinley. It was the last word of political counsel that fell from 1 the lips of the martyred president. and | Mir. Roosevelt has caught it up and re- peated it with emphasis.
 l It is not a little strange that poi | icy with which the reputation and name of Mir. Mckinley will be indelibly
 associated was begun by his great po- | litical rival. James G. Blaine in direct opposition to what he CMr. Blain el
 conceived to be the "exclusiveness'' of
 the famous Mckinley bilI' of 1890. | MT. Blaine. it will be remembered,
 openly took the position that, while ! the Mckinley bill was professsdiy l drawn in the interest of agriculture it would not open any foreign market to
 American flour and pork.
 l He persuaded the senate to pass his
 amendment, afterward concurred in by
 the house. authorizing the negotiation ! of reciprocity treaties providing for the
 admission of American products at fa- vora ble rates of duty, into the coun- | tries with which treaties might be
 concluded. Many treaties were so ne- | gotiated under the terms of the Me
 Kinley bill as amended by Mir Blaine. l SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. 1 In the national republican platform
 of 1892 the party pointed to the suc- | cess of the republican policy of recip- ! rocity, under which our export trade has vastly increased. and new and en-
 larged markets have been opened for l the products of our farms and work shops" The policy had been tested { fn, oh afeyl,t
 it is declared. the gain in foreign conn-
 merce in all products affected was
 enormous.
 Breadstuffs is usually taken as an
 example. The increased expor;
 amounted to q gain of five times the | volume Steam engines were exported 1 to an amount four times In excess oI
 the previous eight months. and the total gain is estimated to have been
 about s3.OO0.o00 in all lines of export;
 during the brief period of the experi-
 ment.
 | To this policy MT. Mckinley. had re- solved to devote bis best interests dur ing his second term of office Such is the only possible interpretation of his; famous utterance at the Buffalo expo sition when he said:
 The period of exc,usiveness Is past The expansion of our trade and con-
 merce is the pressing problem. Com ! mercial wars are improbable. A pol | icy or good will and friendly trade re- lations will prevent reprisals. Recip- rocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retail | iation are not"
 It was this almost sybilline utter ance that Mir. Roosevelt re- echoed in | his declaration at Buffalo when he | took up the task of government THE M'KINLEY VIEW. What was Mir. McKinley's view or ' ''reciprocity?" The democrats in na-
 tional conventions and out of then: ! have declared that reciprocity Is only
 another name for the principles of free
 trade, and such is the opinion of the | Boston Home Market club, which earnestly protested against the app,I- cation of the principle in January of | this year. Such was not. however, the i view of Mir. Mckinley. The following distinction between the principles of
 free trade and of reciprocity was ap-
 proved of by MT Mckinley: Free traders propose to lay and col | lect duties on products which the United States cannot produce, for the express purpose of raising a revenue.
 They expect that such articles shall | cost the consumer more by exactly the amount of the duty
 Reciprocity also proposes to lay duties on such articles, but there is no 1 expectation of collecting the duties | laid. In case a nation refuses to make satisfactory reciprocal arrangements.
 the result would simply be to shut that nation out of our markets" ! He also indorsed the declaration of
 the republican pla tform of 1896, that protection and reciprocity are twin
 measures of republican policy, and go | hand in hand as also the demand for reciprocity agreements of mutual irl-
 terests, which gain open markets for
 us in return for our open markets for others"
 | AN INTERCHANGE OF TARIFFS. | MT. Mckinley openly avowed the true nature of reciprocity to be what one of MT. Roosevelt's advisers defined it-a shrewd bargain. an interchange of tar ifs, in which. as in a horse trade, each party thinks he has got the better of the other. 'If perchance," said Mr.
 Mckinley at Buffalo, some of our
 tariffs are no longer needed for rev.
 enue, or to encourage and protect our industries at home. why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?"
 He realized that in a great number |. of cases the tariffs of this country are 1 unnecessarily high, since they have long since done their work of protect ing. and afterward developing. home industries. As the shrewd man of af- fairs, he saw an opportunity of get ting something in return for the con- cession of lower tariffs to the interested
 nations, instead of lowering them
 without immediate profit. It was good
 "business." It may be said authorita-
 lively that this is the equally frank
 view taken nf repiDrOcity by the DreS-