Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-09-01

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ciaret. 4 shall fight these ffeas .es 2.
the bitter end. They are wrong 4.
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Republican party made a mistake J..
suggesting reciprocity n 10 D.atS1rl
and II enacting a ec.prcc5ty .av"
After favorable report by the ser
ate committees IN sOreien relation
Senator Aldrich If Rhode Island ans
iOCs for hls novelty Constituents, no
cd that the matter be referred ~ u
finance committees; and, although u
KassOn secured a n extension " tim
for ratification To aare aoaaa Il t.
treaties from defeat, they vore mere
allowed 10 come u a vote ana rer.sLe .
before they were born. IT, aea4t
adjourned, and Mr. IA sson ret. T.
disgust. Reciprocity Il Gealel 10 IL
Standard d.cti3nary az ''mu-r1. egua..
ity of rights and benefits" T. r-...er..
Journalism 1t Is frequently =. 81 81
sickly Republican twin"
The foregoing facts constitute T..
best evidence Of the in3.ncerirv II Re
publican declarations regarding 81
called reciprocity. The arguments
against the treaties were fallaciou:
excuses. The only "dissimilar and non
competing products'-to use the eZ-
preston Of the Home Market club-in
which we can trade are raw materials
from the tropics, as coffee, chocolate.
tea and spices. The tropics include
the West Indies. Mexico, Central
America and South America as far
south as Rio Janeiro, Malaysia, south
ern India and central Africa. These
countries are and always will be III
dustrially and commercially the poor
est. The people from whom we derive
our origin, the nations which furnish
US the finest examples Of art and sci
ence, the lands which give US the great
est incentive to industry and inventive
achievements and where our merchants
turn to seek in friendly commercial in
tercourse the accumulation of honest
wealth, are still by Republican tariffs
to be closed to traders sailing under the
stars and stripes. How many of our
machines can the tropics take? How
many shiploads of breadstuffs, the i'm
ports Of an active metropolis, can we
send to the indolent natives basking in
the meridian heat of perpetual sum-
mer? Yet the fruit growers Of Califor
mia beg to be saved from competition
with even them.
Mr.. Kasson, in letter to the Boston
Merchants association, said, Instead
Of contenting ourselves with the bar
barian position Of supplying raw mate
rails to a refined civilization, we will
take our rightful attitude before
France and the world Of exchanging
with her all the products Of an ad
vanced civilization" The annual i'm
ports to France amounted to SILT ,0O0,-
900 Of manufactured goods, Of which
we furnished only $4,OOO,0OO. We turn
from the friendly hand Of invitation to
share in this wealth Of commerce and
seek out some crude district remote
from the keen competition Of trade.
1t is very evident that Republican rec
iprocity is sham. Reciprocity means
nothing else than tariff reform. 1t en-
counters exactly the same difficulties
and meets the same selfish opposition
of our industrial wards, who never con-
slider revenue needs and national well
fare. The treaties perished in the hands
of their friends. Reciprocity was nev-
or treated more shabbily by the Dem
ocratic party which they denounce.
We are once again brought face to face
with the question Of tariff reform,
from which there can be no evasion. 1t
appeals to us now, not only through
our surplus revenue, but in the PERM
ciOus effect on our own industries,
whose product Is checked and whose
exports are repressed. We are now
coming into the great family Of world
nations. A world trade Is ours. Presi.
dent Mckinley, who had in this matter
keener sight than his party, realized
our position and tried to remedy It..
Let reciprocity now find its true twin
and go hand in hand with tariff reform.
NORMAN +. HEssELTINE.