New-York tribune., 1903-02-23
OPPOSED TO RECIPROCITY
n RepubHcan Who IhinkS the Id
ministration POLICY U'rong.


Sir: AS constant reader of The Tribune LOT
many years 1 feel justified in noticing the state
ments contained in its recent article on -tie
Reciprocity Record" AS of The Tribune
well meaning but misguided Republicans, can
say for ali classed that we recognize James
Gillespie Blaine a coed Republican anu souAu
protectionist, but deny his favoring any oter
than American Republican reciprocity. we iiahe
this denial after carefully looking up the recoI u
! But let us understand what the term reclfroci'y
Like tariff it applies to and Is assoo'.'
with two distinct and opposite principles 'nFoi.eu @
in government revenue policy While tam, i
revenue only is a recognized cardinal principe ol
! free trade Democracy. protective tarl1 is cai
| nal principle of Republicanism. While potN aie
| tariffs they opposite in principle ana e1Aee1-
| So of reciprocity. That "associated with plo'eo
! ton guards American interests. industries aH
| la by excluding the competing proouc'S "a
| cheap foreign labor from its reciprocal ar
ments while that reciprocity associated with ilee
| trade like free trade itself, openly invites such
| competition With this fair understanding ol
what reciprocity is better understand eacii
| other when we consider the question
| Blaine's reciprocity Associated WIN MS
| protection and was so hateful to Democrats fhat
they tore it from the statutes at their nrsl op-
| portunity; while present reciprocity schenes l
| pleasing to the Democracy as a step 'o"'.A"
free trade showing coaclusively that they are
not of the Blaine stripe While resrettnlS Inc
| Tribune's reproachful reference we glory III
Blaine's rame, Blaine's protection ana b'dio
reciprocity. founded it is on Hamilton anu
Gays policy that we import only Wlidt
cannot ourselves produce; and no RePuplledi
platform contained an lndorseHeh' VI '
| other kind of reciprocity.
We claim for Mckinley, as for Blame iIWs
! championship of protection and Its asSooiate
policy of reciprocity as twin measures oi M
publican policy; and as protection pars io1
| competing products, how can twin ihedsu'e
invite such competition as all penang lecito
measures do? Again. can such hieas"
OIlfCr
wonderful development under the domesllc pm
now firmly established? Here Mckinney refers
to protection with which RECIPROCITY tredtle0 d.
in harmony" But what did Mckinney mean III ~
that same last address when he said; we stouu ~
+.I,a from cur customers such of their products
as we can use without harm to our industries
| and labor? And again: by senslpie uaue "
ranpernents which will not interrupt our nome
productions We snail eA'eilu 'i@ '"NN
increa sing surplus
This shows that President Mckinley died as he
had lived faithful to protection ana 'ha' 60 go
ciated reciprocity as laid down in the platloini
upon which he was last elected PRESIDENT "ilei
The Tribune in this article only parity quote''
Here is the complete sentence: I'VE favor the
associated policy Of reciprocity, SO oirecteu ae
onar our markets on favorable terms for "iid'
we do not ourselves produce. in return LOT Tree
foreign markets" That is the gospel or fepup-
roanisr, as contended for by Blaine ana NC
Kfnley and laid down by the Repunhcan Nation,ll @
conventions; and. as The Tribune puts IT, we
are inclined think Blame, hcf>lfley eiU '
last three Republican conventions were dpout as
,ood authority on true Republicanism and true
Americanism as any that can now De loullu;
We also so believe. and glory In our wen es''D
ush.d belief as the language of Republican pat
! forms with Biaine's and Mckinley's work leaves
no ground for divisions among United states ne
nublicans on reciprocity as an ASSOCIATED pohcy
of protection. But in Iowa 1t is dlnerent.
Bv ability in craftsmanship Of her trusted repre-
sentatives in nationa! counsels Iowa has gained
| ,rbio ioh her
and content: but ambitious politicians necahe
restless over the slow coming OF thelr turn d
coveted officehoding. division must De pro-
vided and a division made. or they might never
get in III,
and public interest that there was no chance
for the "outs" on the score of fidelity TO parry
or people; but if the party could be swung out
of line the outs could jump claims ana assume
leadarshin AS things booming under the
Dingley law, and prices were hlgh as ieS'
of our prosperity here was the opportunity loI
tbe "outs." So the cry was sent up from well
ORGANIZED political machine, with wheels all over
tho State that high prices resulted from pro-
tected trusts and monopoles. This pelns goou
Democratic doctrine, all free trade Democrats
and all Republicans looking to the new. machine
for help in getting office. fell in line with TINS
unrepubcan doctrine. and they made iots OF
noise that confused good Republicans
| So when the Republican State Convention met
IN 1901 a wedge was driven into the platform under
shelter
bv the new machine leaders. proves TO be IN seiiti
| -nent and language part of Cleveand's Democratic
free trade platform The .ew leader N the olVis-
! ,on was nominated and elected Governor on lhdt
nlatform with it's real meaning still sheltered un-
| der the interstate plank but when after"ard
criticised for his radical free trade sentiments ne
set I'D the claim that this little free trade Joker
| so sheltered as not to recognized, justihed ana
required such unrepublican doctrine TINS IS the
contention and the division upon which the Iowa
| idea' rests-fying Republican protecton colots
| ever Democratic free trade platforms and prin-
cples By thus taking the party on ground Where
true Republicanisn of the Blaine-Mchlniey stripe
| cannot live, Mr.. Cumnns, not always a RePuD-
lican becomes leader with the earnest support
free raasr aad add baS rFse are now him
for President to smother out naagineo Tn C
or o Secbe bss also Gathered around him for political
| 0urnoses and political influences some of the
brishteSs % prncipe and is fully determined
to retire all Iowas true RepubI1cans ana einer ~
iIi1sfSate: Speaker Henderson forsakes politics
lathtr than abandon principe %nne ndon SenatT n"
| 1ics the only choice being to climb into the new
leaders band wagon or be run down by his party
This condition is for Iowa but as one a. Of Ioss Ias
io know WHY our old reliable friend of Greeley
memory should furnish our s6-e of The
| Tribunes life work for protection such backing
in thT prospe2v never
eouaiied in our national existence with a all labor
fully nn9 emR0yea With h' ali industries running ali The
| tive 10 keep up with demands. and food pro
dTGeTs and FeaPIPg a lines Of business booming as the
acknowledged result Of the features o0 o5
fRepubeans professing to be friends Of protec. p
lower ta r2F6s W6sp R }Rev oannot point
| TO a schedule or a single article the tariff on
Which IS injurious TO any American business or
We fully realize the eff effects Of Of Listening ST to such