The Sauk Centre herald., 1901-11-21
CONVENTION At WASHINGTON
ATTENDED eY DELEGATES
FROM ALL SECTIONS.
ITS PRINCIPLES OUTLINED
Some a the Duties Embraced In Our
Present Tariff No Longer Necessary
for the Protection Of Industries.
New Outlets for Our Products Must
Be Found as the Home Market -
Insufficient.

washington, NOV. ZU.-MAny Oh CuS
manufacturing industries Of the United
States were represented at the nation
al reciprocity convention which began
its sessions here during the day.
There were 800 delegates present in
response to a call issued by the Ma.
tional Association of Manufacturers at
a meeting in Detroit last June. The
convention is representative OF all Sec
tions and it's object Is to give expires.
sion to the views Of manufacturers
generally on the subject Of reciprocity.
D. A. Tompkins Of Charlotte, N. c.,
was chosen temporary chairman and
Theodore C. Search of Philadelphia
was made permanent chairman. The
convention adopted resolutions OF
greeting to President Roosevelt,
pledging it's support and expressing
it's confidence in his administration.
Mr.. Search, in taking the chair, out
lined the work before the convention.
He said in part:
"Our aim has been to forestall tariff
agitation, not to encourage it. It is the
duty of this convention to harmontze
as far as possible the widely differing
opinions represented in this body and
to reduce to clear and forceful express
sion such principles as we hold in COM
mon We are here to harmonic our
views, not to emphasize our differ
ences.
This is no time or place for senti-
ment or theories, or for statements
that cannot be fully substantiated by
facts. 1 take it we are all agreed as to
certain general propositions such as
these:
Some Of the duties embraced in our
present tariff are NO longer needful for
the existence Of Industries for whose
protection they were imposed.
New Trade Outlets Necessary.
That many of our industries have
reached a stage in their development
where the home market alone cannot
absorb their entire product and, con-
sequently, new outlets are necessary
for their continuous operations and
the steady employment of their oper-
ativeS. ,ra-
"That the establishment Of more cor
dial commercial relations with other
nations by means of an exchange Of
tariff concessions would enlarge the
foreign outlets of those industries for
which increased export trade is neces-
sary.
THAT if such applications of the
principles Of commercial reciprocity
could be made without injury to any
of our industries and consequent ex-
pansion of our foreign trade would be
beneficial to all our commercial and
Industrial interests.
Coffee and tea are about the only
great staple articles of commerce
which we do not produce and if reci-
procity be limited to the use Of these
two commodities as basis for nego-
tiations we cannot expect to make
much progress. To insist upon strict
adherence to such principle in max
ing application of reciprocity is vir-
tually to oppose it's use in any practi-
cal form.
"The reciprocity that is wanted to-
day is a reciprocity that means some
thing and promises something in the
shape of tangible advantage for our
commerce, not merely expressions of
kind sentiment toward all the business
world, but an actual giving and taking
of concessions that will open wider for
US the markets of the world and broad
en- the distribution of our products"