The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-04
Average Circulation
of
THE JOURNAL
for month of August
IS, 49,
A Memorable Week.

from a violent death by the narrow space
OF a couple of feet. brings forcibly to
mind the htdeous tragedy at Buffalo, a
year ago on next Saturday, by which
President McKinley's illustrious career
on earth was brought to close. To-
morrow will be just one year since he de-
llvered the great speech on trade expan-
sion and reciprocity at Buffalo to a vast
assembly of his fellow citizens and repre-
sentatives Of foreign governments.
That Buffalo speech was an epoch
making speech. How so? may be asked,
seeing that the resonant keynote it
sounded has been disregarGed through
the intervening year since it was deliv
cred and the more liberal trade policy
which it set forth has been antagonized
in congress and the senate has deliber
ately neglected the ratification of the
reciprocity treaties which We're negoti-
ated by Mr.. kasson, the special commits
sloner appointed by President McKinle:-
to do that work.
1t was an epoch making speech for the
reason that, not only was every point
made by the president favoring trade ex-
to promote reciprocity, received with gen.
Uine and prolonged applause by the great
audience in front Of him. which in the
matter of intelligence was equal to any
audience ever assembled in this country
on a like occasion, but the press Of the
country, by strung majority Of it's
forces, the republican press notably, re-
ceived the announcement that 1.-The period
r. of exclusive ness is past; the expansion Of
our trade and commerce is the pressing
problem with strong communication, as
1t likewise received this: Reciprocity
treaties in harmony with the spirit
of the times; measures of retaliation are
not. If. perchance, some Of our tariffs
are no longer needed for revenue or to
encourage and protect our Industries at
home, why should they not be employed
to extend and promote our markets
abroad?' This policy simply accentu-
eted the policy of reciprocity embodied
in section 4 Of the tariff Of 1897 and
looked to larger application of the
principle therein contained, as the neces-
stiles Of our export trade require. I'VE
must not repose in fancied security" said
the president. that we can forever sell
everything and buy little Or nothing"
1t was an epoch-making speech because
the president drove his simple argument
home so deeply that this nation by a very
large majority is impregnated with it's
spirit and purpose. The policy is received
which Mckinley ever spoke. The author
~ o,;e
signed the tariff law Of 1897, Mckinley
could not be charged with lack of fealty
to get the great principle of protection. His
logical mind was convinced that through
that policy our country's industrial tri-
umphs are due, and that with the stimu-
lus of the policy, the capacity to produce
had enormously increased, and the time
had arrived to extend the outlets for our
increasing surplus, by relaxing the rigidity
Of the tariff schedules. This is the policy
Of the new epoch. That it will prevail is
absolutely, certain, just as it is certain
that the American people are thoroughly
practical people and prefer to adapt thei1
policies to the demands of the materia
welfare Of the nation. Tariff and reel
mental politics. They are business mat
tiers, and McKinley's practical, bushes
mind knew it.
1t is useless for the group Of extrem
protectionists to try and make out tina
Mckinley meant something very differen
from that which he uttered at Buffalo o.
Sept. 8, 1901, Mckinley used no ambiguou
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republican national convention Of 1896 Sc
verely condemned the democrats for re
pealing the reciprocity arrangements ne
gotiated under the Harrison administra
ton and demanded their renewal an
extension on such terms as will euualiz
our trade with other nations and remoy
the restrictions which now obstruct tn
sale Of American products in the ports {
other countries and secure enlarged mar
l1ets for the products of our farms, fol-
ests and factories That is where Nc
Kinley stood. Is there single republica
journal which now is silent on that decla1
alton. which is as much to the point
applicability to the present situation as
was to the situation when it was uttered
able to give any sufficient reason VIII
that necessary and enlightened polio
should be cast into the depths of a shat
.owy oubliette and be extinguished?