Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28
the farmers in order to build up their

the farmers in order to build up their
own trade.
The, farmers of the west have favor.
ed and do favor protection. They be.
lieved in it because it has built up a
home market, and because, under pro-
lection that home market was pre-
served to them. They believed in it
because that market was greatly in
creased The consumption of their
products by the employed workmen in
the protected industries furnishes
them great pecuniary interest in
the doctrine of protection.
1t is now seriously proposed to turn
large part of this advantage over to
Canada in consideration of the conces.
sions by Canada on manufactured
goods.
Applies to All.
If we should have free trade with
Canada because she is a good Gus.
toner, we have still stronger reason
for free trade with Great Britain, and
certainly he must be strong in the Cob
den faith who would be willing TO ex
pose our manufacturers to peril like
that.
The leather-goods manufacturer
wants protected leather goods and free
hides.
The agricultural implement dealer
wishes to increase his Canadian trade
by surrendering the duties on the far
mers' products. Like Artemus Ward
who was willing to send all his wife's
relatives to the war to put down the
rebellion" some Of these short-sighted
dealers are willing to give away the
advantages of protection so far as they
inure to other occupations than their
own.
Wants Fair Trade.
do not desire to condemn reciproc
ity with Canada or any other country
with which we can make fair trade
but the proposition to surrender the
rights of the farmers in Iowa in order
to help some other class of our people
has not one Of the elements Of repub
lican reciprocity. AS the farmer has
more than once saved the policy Of
protection by his vote. he has the right
to be fairly considered in the making
Of schedules and treaties affecting his
interests.
BIaine's Criticism.
The old Canadian reciprocity treaty
made in the democratic days of Pierce
and Buchanan, is well described by
Mr.. Blaine in chapter ~ of his TWEEN
ty Years in Congress-:
The selection OF (commodities) as
shown in the schedule. shows that
thara roplU NJ q
list which could be exported from the
United States without loss to us
while the great market Of the Uni
ted States was thrown open to Can
ada without tax or charge for nearly
everything which she could produce
or export. All her raw materials
were admitted free, while our man
ufacturers We're all charged heavy
duty, the market being reserved for
English merchants. The fishery ques-
ton had been used adroitly to secure
from the United States an agreement
which was one-sided, vexatious, and
Improbable.
The Present Situation.
The present situation is even more
unfavorable in this, that Great Britain
has a rebate of 33 1-3 per cent on all
her duties on goods imported into Can.
ada. The imports to Canada from the
United States in the fiscal year 1902-3
amounted to $144,764,375, whilst those
of Great Britain amounted to $65, 408,-
020, Notwithstanding the advantages
accorded to the empire.
Blaine's reciprocity has been defined
by Hon. Charles Emory Smith as fol
lows:
Brazil grows coffee and makes nc
machinery. We make machinery and
grow no coffee. We agree to conces-
sions for her coffee and she agrees tc
concessions for our machinery. This
is reciprocity.
That was not the kind Of reciprocity
that was provided for by the demo
cratic treaty of 1854, but was the Bu
chanan idea Of the subject.
McKinley's Buffalo Speech.
McKinley's Buffalo speech has been
grievously misquoted. He in that
speech defined reciprocity as sensible
trade arrangements which will not in
terrupt our home production
Reciprocity has been defined by Mr.
Roosevelt as "the hand-maiden of pro
lection" 1t should not be made the
sexton of our industries. When we
uSdI VI lISS LIduGlS dSlldtluS ISClpTOC
lfty, we may know it is not of the hand
maiden" variety.
The Boston Free Trade league is en-
gagged in an agitation for treaties ex
tending the free list to FALL agriculture
products any portion Of which we nov
export"
Urges carefuIness.
| aReWare of Creeks hearing gifts )
The kind of reciprocity which meets
the views of this league should b,
eyed askance by all protectionists.
| In the national republican platform
of 1900 we say:
| We favor the associated policy O
| reciprocity SO directed as to open ou
markets in favorable terms for wha
we do not ourselves produce in return
for free foreign markets.
Wilson's Views on Trade.
Secretary Wilson, in one Of his re
cent speeches, said:
Reciprocity may become the auxil.