The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-09-30
could enter upon the same terms the

could enter upon the same terms the
volume of our exports to that country
would be nightly increased and there
by the work done in the republic
would be correspondingly multiplied.
10 obtain these terms, it will be nee
essary that certain of the products of
Canada shall be allowed to come into
the united States under lower duties
IMAM now prevail. Her coal, her iron
ore, and pig, iron should come in free
as raw material, and the natural pro-
ducts OF her soil can be we'll admitted
upon the best terms we can secure il
thereby this great dominion can be
opened up to the enterprise of Amer
lean manufacturers. We have no need
to fear the competition of Canada in
our own markets in those products
which constitute our chief exports, nor
is there any time to lose in pressing
forward the negotiations for these
freer relations with Canada. Joseph
Chamberlain, Englands great states
man, sees the future with a clearer
vision than his associates, and ere
long his plan will be the plan of the
English administration. He knows
that If England were to impose duty
upon the agricultural imports from the
United States and permit those same
exports from Canada to enter free,
and thereby induce Canada to raise
still higher her barriers against the
United States in manufactured articles
and lower still more the barriers
against the imports from England
in manufactured articles, he would
at once deprive the United States
OF its best customer, promote
the business of the English man
ufacturer, and bind the colony
to the mother country with chains
of enduring strength. We must
thwart the designs of Great Britain,
and reciprocity is our most effective
weapon. Confronted by such an emer-
gency, the democrats are helpless and
powerless, for when they have insti-
tuted their system of free trade we
are at the mercy of the intelligent
statesmen of Europe.
France may be instanced as another
nation with which diplomacy can work
wonders for American trade. Sub.
stntially all our agricultural pro-
ducts, and many others, now en-
ter France under discriminat-
ing duty against us of Is per
SSAS 0S compared VIII ZIG ID
vored nations. A treaty, negotiated
upon our part by the most illustrious
son that Iowa has given to the field of
International politics, is now before
the senate. 1t gives us equality in
France, and what we surrender is so
little that it would not create ripple
upon the industrial waters. 1t ought
to be ratified, and doubt not will be
so soon as the republican voice is fair
ly heard upon the subject. Should the
democrats prevail, however, it must
fall into oblivion, for when free trade
comes in we have nothing to give and
therefore can take nothing save that
which we conquer in hot commercial
warfare. 1t is quite true that our ex-
port trade is insignificant compared
with our home trade, and SO it will al
ways be, but to keep 1t and increase
it, is absolutely essential to our con-
tinued prosperity. Least of all can we
afford to adopt policy that will per-
init the gradually developing re-
sources of other countries to drive our
! agricultural products from foreign
markets or impose upon them a dis
eliminating duty; and the administra-
ton which, by the introduction of free
| trade or the neglect of opportunities
| for reciprocal trades allows this con-
sequence to fall upon the farmers of
the United States, will go down into
history under the fierce condemnation
OF all the people. have not hitherto
! mentioned, nor can / develop at any
length, the beneficial effects of reci-
procity with the South American coun-
tries. One has but to examine the in
creasing trade which followed the re-
ciprocal treaties which were so sense
/ lessly abrogated by the democrats in
| 1894, to know that there is no field in
| which our statesmen can employ their
| abilities with greater rewards than in
| the cultivation of closer commercial
relations with the South American
| continent With American lines of
| steamships established between the
ports of the United States and the
| ports of South America, and with fair
trade arrangements, we can com1ne--
cially dominate these undeveloped
! lands for all time to come. Mark my
| prediction, that in the ensuing quarter
| of century, trade arrangements, BIZ
whatever name they may be called,
will be the most prominent and i'm
portant subjects of discussion and de-
| cls1on, not only in our own cOuntr.,
but in every country of the civilized
world. How indispensable and unpa-
triotic it would be to cast away in the
very beginning of this great struggle
the only weapon with which we can
fight our way to victory.
Before close my consideration of
the tariff and of reciprocity, must e.
fer to some peculiar conceptions
which my friend Sullivan has of it's op-
GRAFTON and effect. There was a die-
ference of opinion in 1897 among re-
publicans, and still is, respecting the
wisdom of putting the duty on lumber
1t is one of those differences which
will always exist, and l am not COO
1 tending against the modification of the
duty. l desire, however, to point out
the eXaggerations for which Mr. Sui
Ivan seems to be responsible. TAX.
| ing the prices of lumber in 1897 as a
guide, the average duty put upon it
was less than per cent of it's selling
| price, and yet in the fervor of his love
for free trade. Mr.. Sullivan says:
There is not man within the
Sound of my voice who does not know
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