Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-05

1@ct tl1ll one great industry sshleI an
other is moving its plant, or IL large par
Of it, into the jurisdiction G. some othe
rag on the ground that 1t is no lcnge
4 possible TO continue its foreign trad'
under the conditions that now obtain q
home.
The Westinghouse COMPANY, of Phil
adelphie, has moved much of its plant
TO Russia; the Ingersol Sargent Drill
Company. Of New York, the Fart Hur-
on, Thrashng Machine Company, OF
/ Port Huron, Mich. the Deering Har-
Ivestcr Company. of Chicago, and the
/ minneapolis Thrashing Machine Com
pany, of Minneapolis. Mimi, have
transferred or are about To transfer a
substantial share of their productive
| facilities to Canada.
To this list rumor mistakenly adds
the names of the Mccormick Harvest
ing Machine Company. the John Deere
! Plow Company. the Studeballer Wagon
Steel and Iron Company and about
thirty others of equal Importance.
/ Not all the firms joining in this eN-
/ traordinary exodus are members OF the
Reciprocity League. Some of them
Ihaye been members and have grown
discouraged in the effort to get the ear
! OF congress, and others are not. for rea
sons SIMILAR To those outlined in u let
ter written by the president of the Min
neapolis Thrashing Machine Company
TO the secretary of the Reciprocity
League.
The problem that confronts the
country is very plain, said A. Is. Huit,
secretary of the Reciprocity League,
Saturday. 1t amounts TO simply this:
Are we going TO lose the immense eN-
port trade that we have built up since
1892 because we are unwilling to be de-
'cent and fair With the countries from
whom we have received so much GUS
TOM Take the case of Russia for eX
ample. Secretary Gage, at the behest
OF the beet sugar people, imposed
oountervailing duty upon the beet sugar
exported to this country by Russia.
n practically prohibitive tariff. The
value of this product exported hither in
1891 was only S11S,5l6 The secretary's
action was unjust and unnecessary. The
result was that Russia promptly retail
ated by discriminating heavily against
American machinery We knock a full
grown industry in the head in order to
protect another infant. But the opera
ton is likely to prove disastrous. In
1892 our exports i'm machinery to Rus
Sia We're valued at only $1S5.S97. Last
year they reached value of S2.11S,S1l.
Must we go back to the first figure for
the benefit of an unreasonable clique"
business men IN every section of the
country say that if the tariff treaty
With France now i'm the hands of con-
gress, fails of ratification the result will
be wholesale emigration of our man
ufacturing interests to Canada. How
can the ratification fail? Is the repub-
lican party absolutely blind, or gone
mad? Is it possible that anybody with
Il penny at stake does not realize the
tremendous preponderance of the benz
fits that will accrue to him if the treaty
is ratified. compared to those we are
asked to grant France in return?
France is the third wheat country of
the world. Who furnishes her harvest
ing machinery? We certainly don't. |
France bought about 20.O00,000 worth |
Of manufactured goods in 1898 Only |
50 100000 of this came from us. We are |
against. along with Port |
uSal-a taste pf the kind of company |
that we will get thoroughly accustomed !
to if we keep on as we seem to have be-
gun. The entire average rate of the |
asked by France on the
present duties laid by us upon the num- |
hers TO be favored amounts to only e.S
per cent. What we get in return is sim
ply magnificent beside that figure
We have got to wake up. In the
words of Mckinley. The period of ex-
elusiveness is past. The expansion of
our trade and commerce is the press.
ing problem. Commercial wars are I'M
profitable"