Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05
Brooklyn Eagle.

cOIlcluQeS tHdI reciprocity SuOulu US
limited to articles we do not produce.
He believes the facts concerning Cuba
make out case against reciprocity
with Canada or any other whose
products are similar, to our own.
What the facts sustain is the con-
clusion that when tariff on an arti-
Gle of which our domestic supply is
imported, or largely imported, is sus-
pended in favor of particular country
the effect is gift out of our treasury
to the exporters of that country. Mr..
Berryhills objection is to making this
gift. Therefore he should object to
reciprocity, in the form of suspension
or reduction of tariff duties, with any
country producing goods our supply
of which is wholly or largely import
ed. If he is looking for reciprocity
that will cost our treasury little or
nothing he should propose reciprocity
in goods of which we produce sur
plus for export and from which our;
treasury therefore receives no consid-
cradle revenue now.
| To get foreign market without a
gift from the treasury we must ex-
change markets with producers of
goods similar to our exports, or adj
nit goods from foreign countries on
equal terms, with the exception of i'm
posing extra and prohibitory duties
on goods from countries discriminating
against us. Our best policy is to in
sist on most favored nation treatment
everywhere and to impose discriminate
ing duties on imports from those coun-
tries only which do not accord us this
treatment.
IOWA FARMER AND RECIPROCITY.
[Glidden Graphical
The esteemed Rockwell City Advo-
cate has suggested that it is time
to drop fractional contention and get
on the platform with both feet. The
Graphic has acknowledged the cor
rectness of this observation but
since our genial contemporary has
taken the pains to figure out the
number of pages of stand pat doctrine
in the republican campaign text book
perhaps it will not take offence if we
ask its opinion on the following propo-
sition:l
"Canada exports nearly $25OO0,0
worth of wheat per year, the United
States nearly ssS,0o0,O00 worth per
wear Canada maintains tariff of
12c per bushel and the United States
25c per bushel What effect do these
tariff rates have on the price of
wheat?"
The Advocate has been an ardent
promoter of what we consider pure
bugaboo. 1t was held up to the Iowa
farmer the danger which threatened
him if he were to be compelled to
compete with the Canadian farmers
We do not doubt for a moment the
sincerity of the Advocate in it's pro-
motion of these views but we are I'M
able to see the logic of it's attitude
The prosperity of Iowans depends
almost wholly upon the prosperity of
its farmers We should be willing to
, go as far as any one to protect these
interests. But we have never consid-
cred them in jeopardy from the source
above noted. When Blaine crushed his
plug" hat in efforts to to emphasize
the fact that the original Mckinley bill
did not provide a market for single
additional barrel of American flour or
nork and secured the Incorporation of
his famous reciprocity clause to rene
DIV the defect he was favoring the
wastern farmers. The disposition now
is to repudiate Blaine's wisdom or dis
own it and even Senator Dolllver was
forced to say in the senate that he re-
GREETED to admit that not a line OF the
| wisdom of Blaine was incorporated IN
the statutes of the United States
Put more regrettable than all else
has been the exploitation of this bug
hoo in that it has served as cloak to
ra.nstate Iowa in the list OF states
tabled at the Chicago convention as
solidly railroad The interests OF