The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-07


Mr. Williams Of Mississippi-M
Chairman. upon yesterday the gentle
man from Pennsylvania (Mr. DalzeID
announced what he regarded as the
true Republican reciprocity" policy
have found since then that there was
another Republican reciprocity" policy
that had been lately announced by a
distinguished northwestern senator in
d speech made in the town Of Boston
Upon yesterday 1 said that if the gen
tleman confined reciprocity 70 the nom
competing articles. such was the vast
ness of our territory and the COM
pleXity Of our productions-agr iculturaI
and maufacturing-tha / hardly knew
of any article that would be nOncom-
peting.
I said that possibly polar bear skins
or breadfruit or guava might be recon-
mended as nOncompeung. On further
thought I do not believe they can be
so regarded. because the chief product
and food of the American island" of
Guam is breadfrUit; and Porto Rico
and cur other tropical colonies raise
both breadfruit and guava. And as to
polar bear skins. we are getting them
from Alaska. So that, the Dalzell Re
publican reciprocity theory having gone
by the board. a new one presented itself
this morning. Lately a distinguished
northwestern senator made a speech in
Boston, from which I quote the follow
ing:
Let no fear OF foreign frowns, no
temptation to experiment in the field Of
legislation lead US 10 surrender the great
est heritage of American craftsmanship
(the tariff.sF Did YOU ever think
If every inhabitant of China should place
IN order for one cotton shirt. we haven {
mills enough TO fill the order in year?
Why. Colonel Sellers -eyewater was
nothing to that. You remember Colonel
Sellers said if he could just sell one
half a bottle of his celebrated eye
water to each of the people i'm the
Orient suffering with sore eyes, his for
tune would be enormous.
Then this distinguished northwestern
senator goes on:
Corn is the staple food Of the poor peo-
pie in England. No adequate supply out
side the United States is available. No
ministry dare lay duty on corn. Corn
Is king in the Middle West, and retains
its exclusive prerogative abroad. There
fore the great corn belt Will be outside
this storm area.
Now. this new Republican reciproc-
ity'' is about this: This distinguished
senator was called upon to give his
views upon Mr.. Chamberlains propa-
ganda in Great Britain, and he says
that Chamberlain cannot harm the
great middle states of the west where
they grow wheat, because Chamber
lain cannot affOTt TO tax maize. Indian
corn: and he seems to think the people
Of Great Britain live on corn. Further
this new application of reciprocity
seems TO be this: Let Mr.. Chamberlain
close the market to American wheat, TO
American meat. and all such things;
but senatorial reciprocity consists in
Teconciling the northwestern farmers
10 the risk of the loss of the English
market by the hope of persuading each
Of the Cinnamon to buy an American
shirt. IL that happens, we are all right
anyhow. Chamberlain or no Chamber
lain. CLaughter.)
Now. in connection with this speech,
I found. this morning the advance
sheets of a great pOeticaf epfc-a great
Republican epic-and 1 propose to read
it to the house. The name of the poet
l viii not vet make public. 1 want to
hold it in reserve Vet a few days until
he has had an opportunity to have this
great epic copyrighted and published
in due form. This is the way it reads:
Senator QuarIes went to Boston Town
God save The TARIFF
With the bankers and merchants to sit
him down
To feast and speak and win TenOwn.
Watch out for the Sacred IariffD