The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-17

Those treaties were transmitted TO the
senate by President Mckinley II the
roosevelt administration is in favor of
reciprocity. why has not President Roose-
Nelt insisted on their ratificatfon2 Seven
years ago, and more. the Republicans got
run control OF every department Of the
government What have they done for
reciprocity? They gave us lust Htt IL.
taste of it in the bill relating to Cuba
and that benefited the sugar trust. and
NOBODY and nothing else. Il has given
that concern cheaper raw material, and
mat is all il has accomplished. and all it
was ever intended to accomplish
me reciprocity treaty Mr.. Kassdn nesO-
tlated with France was worth 600 laws
IKE the Cuban affair. It would have
vastly extended our trade and ouened
wider one of the greatest markets of the
world, but the few capitalists in our conn
try interested IN cotton knit goods
thought they saw danger TO their exorbf-
tant profits in the French treaty and they
had influence enough to kill Il How
much fat has been fried out of them
10 ne used IN corrupting the suffrage il
| only known to themse Ives and the bosses
OF the party Of great moral ideas"
When Mr.. Blaine was secretary of state
lhere was convened IN our country an as
sembly thdt was known as the Pan-Amer-
lean congress. Tho object of il was to
expand and enlarge our trade with the
other Americans: including the West In
dia Islands. We had undertaken their no
litlcal guardianship by maintafnfner The
TO be the beginning Of closer commercial
relations. Nothing came Of tor next 10
nothlng-for the reason that closer trade
relations are inconsistent, and interiors
with the eXorbitant protective system.
which is the paramount principle Of the
Republican party.
Mr.. Kasson. however. succeeded i'm ne
gOtiating those reciprocity treaties with
the fellow Americas. at the south Of us.
our country making small concessions and
they great ones; but their ratification
would have changed the Dingley tariff
IN slight particulars. and the Repuhlican
party stands pat on the Dingley rates
in all particulars. And so those treaties
died the death. And so reciprocity is ONLY.
word and the Dingley law is became a
Fetch. The great Aepublican gospel Of
reciprocity is reduced TO nothing and shall
apply To "nOn-competitiVe'' articles only
That is what Senator Aldrich said n
meant. and all it meant and John bal
zell. the ablest protectionist in congress-
made Il powerful speech to show tina Z
cream Of tartar is about the only article
Of commerce that the great doctrine of
Blaine. applies to.
To that complexion has it come. II is
true that the Republican platform has "A
Dlatitude declaring for commercial rect
can be effected consistent with the priu-
ciples of protection and without injury 10
American agriculture. American labor. or
any American industry. That is in
tended 10 mean everything I'm the world
and really means nothing In the world
1t sounds something like a promise To
the American consumer; but 1t is hedged
in and nuilified by so many limitations
that are pledges to the American monopo-
list. that il amounts merely to a few
worthless words and nothing more A
party that repudiated the reciprocity
treaties negotiated by Mr.. Commissioner
Plenipotentiary kasson ard urged on the
senate BY President Mckinley is not in
favor Of reciprocity at all aud only in
kos he. tn ole
applies TO non-cOmpetitive products only
II is OF too little consequence 10 bother