The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-24
NEW MARKETS NECESSARY.
Reciprocity and Expansion Necessary
for Our Growing Manufactures.

for Our Growing Manufactures.
The opposition's policies would paralyze
the business OF the Nation: Republican pol
icies would aid the business Of the Nation
Under Republican administration the pro-
ductive forces of the Republic-aided where
necessary, let alone when possible-have in-
creased the output of factory. farm and
mine until our own people can no longer
consume them. Therefore. the great prob
lem of the hour is to find markets where
the American people can sell their surplus.
Daily that surplus grows. Factories are
charging their plants, farmers are multi
plying their products. The surplus The
surplus, Everywhere the surplusi Failure
to sell that surplus means ruin. If mill
makes a million yards Of cloth and cannot
sell 100000 yards. it must discharge some Of
its men, shut down part Of its works. and
throw its surplus on congested markets. II
a farmer raises a thousand bushels OK
wheat and cannot find a market for a part
OF it, the price Of wheat goes down, the
farmers ability TO buy what the factory
produces is diminished; and agriculture
answers manufacture with congestion for
congestion Dry goods stores fear to stock
up when they may not be able to sell;
banks call i'm old loans and decline new
ones which the uncertain future makes un-
safe The whole machinery OF production.
commerce and finance slows down to the
low pressure OF hard times" These are
The certain results OF an uusold surplus.
And 80 il is that in our very prosperity
turks the causes OF disaster which nothing
can avert except the sale OF the surplus
products Of American capital and labor.
To dispose of that surplus Of American
products is the task the Republican party
Is performing
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA.
All over the world. therefore. we seek
new markets-seek TO increase existing
markets. One market for part of cur sur
plus is at our DOORS and 10 seize that mar
ket the Republican party will establish
reciprocity with bur wards in Cuba. This
island. which wa have made anew, bought
from all the world, even under the paralyz-
ing rule of Spain, over S6S.0000O0 worth OF
products every year. Absolutely everything
the people Of Cuba need is produced in
American factories and farms. Cuba's pur-
chases I'm the future will increase in ever
accommodating volume. American adminis-
tration has opened modern schools through
out the island; and where only few thou
sand Cuban children were being poorly
taught when we took charge quarter OF
a million now are gwen modern education.
American administration has established a
system OF pOstOfiices and post roads, and
the Cuban planter Is in daily touch with
the American farmer, manufacturer, la
borer. Congress has decreed perpetual
American guardianship 10 Cubas foreign
relations, finance, sanitation, naval sta
tions and over all. the right OF the United
States 10 send its soldiers there at any time
to preserve order. property. life and law;
and this American suzerainty has been
adopted in the Constitution Of Cuba Itself.
These conditions have already started
streams OF American investment and
American citizens themselves flowing into
Cuba: and Cuba, capable Of supporting
lion and half. And, therefore, where
Cuba under Spain, annually bought over
S6S 10000 worth OF products from the world.
Americanized Cuba. in ten years, VIII an
nually buy SZ0g000,OO0 worth Of products.
The Republican party proposes that cuba
shall be permitted 10 spend that <lyv,uo1evO
in the United States. And that is what the
first Republican measure Of reciprocity
means.
1t Is said that our reciprocity with cuba
Is not broad enough. We answer that there
must be a beginning, and from us results
we can extend the policy II successful
modify il where defective; abandon u II adj
visable The problem OF reciprocity with
the world Is delicate as the problem
Of supervising the commercial ana INDUS
trial developments within the Republic
itself. All business Is adjusted 20 our sys-
TEN OF protection. But protection exists for
business. not business for protection. And.
as II ceases 70 aid and begins 20 fetter the
Nations industry, our tarim must be mOdi-
fed, but the change must be made with
knowledge. caution. Judgment. The Repub-
lean party proposes 90 reafransc our pro-
tective tariff only where changes viii con-
tinue or increase American prosperity and
not otherwise We are for protection frst:
We are for reciprocity only az a aids pro-
lection. But the opposition would snnihi-