The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-17
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Especial Correspondenca.l


word the late James &. Blaine gave 10
tire Republican party for a campaign cry.
We hear OF il in state papers. in con-
| stesSlonai debates, in the public press,
| On the stump and at the cross road; but
1 n1podY mas seen the reciprocity Mr..
] bidlhe 50 brilliantly and so DertinaciOus-
| y contended for enacted into the law OF
the iand.' 1t is a thing 10 talk ABOUT,
not 70 praotice--to promise 40. 20 per-
loiin, economically, reciprocity is an
1 Snuuote Tor a protective tariff; political
I ~ II Is an apology for protective tariff.
! ~ Is a concession that protection is false
| IN lheory and failure IN practice. IL
IS an admission that il A DecDle would
sell. they must also buy. whereas pro-
| ttecuoh teaches that il is as wicked TO
NY as IL IS excellent TO sell. Sell every
/ lhins out buy nothing is the exhCrtation
! OF the pfOtectiOnistS for In thei~ lexicon
marker is a place where YOU NAY sell
anu snail not buy. They teach tha; when
YOU sell u Is impossible for you 10 lose
ain you ony u is impossible Tor you TO
| gam They believe that exports make
! wealth, and imports make, poverty.
| ouch a dogma is absurd FOR legit innate
\ ttaac benefits and profits both the buyer
/ a DC, the seller. and hence il was that Mr..
/ frame NaiHly stfove to teach his party
mat II IS as good 10 buy az It is 10 SELL
that Maine had more slaves tor hogs
1 heads than she could use aud Cuba had
/ R RIte sugar than she could consume;
-leilic needed sugar and Cuba needed
slaves; sugar was cheap in Cuba and
slaves were cheap in Maine: slaves were
wear III cuba and sugar was dear IN
maine. and given such conditions Ii was
| an excellent thing for Maine to ship
slaves 10 Cuba and exchange them for
sugar. and fetch il home for consump-
] non Vow 1t cannot be denied .hat such
d transaction would disclose "a balance
( OF trade against us but il is also true
that the man in Maine VINO sold slaves
ana bought sugar in Cuba. made money
~ me venture. and just I'm the amount
ne cargo or sugar exceeded n value. at
portland. the chief market of Maine tho
/ cargo Of slaves, was the national wealth
| increased; but according to the protection-
Iss' II was decreased by that amount, for
We nad exported less in value than We
nae imported. That is preposterCus: but
IL IS the foundation stone OF protection,
ana It's ehiefest argument.
ne Republican party is always for rcci-
pIoclty IN It's platform. and it went so far
as 20 put a paragraph into The Dinglev
| Iarlft authorizing it. The tate Mr.. Mo
hlnley believed in il. and his last public
"tet66rdnce was plea for it, as follows:
ReClproclty is the natural OUtgrowth Of
%! WONDERFUL industrial development
should sell everywhere w can and
Duy Wherever the buying will enlarge our
/ Saies and productions and thereby make
d greater demand for labol
- The period of exclrISivrness i mast
me expansion of our trade and cnunmerce
/ 10 tue pressing problem. Commercial wars
aIG HnproIltable. policy of good VIII
r'iu IIiIehdiy trade relations will prevent
tepIIsdIS. reciprocity treaties arc in har-
| Inony with the spirit of the times: meas
uIeS or retaliation are not
dr mckinley made the attcmUt to
! niIa3llze the clause in the Dingley law pro-
SIoillg Tor reciprocity. and IN that behalf
ne was pertinaciOus and jealous. He So
IecleG TOT the work most able and ac-
compIshed man, perhaps the foremost
Pupnc servant the Republicans of the
hrlV~
, sent that great section in the national
| Sounclls-John a. Kssson of iowa Mr.
-hChlnley appointed this gentleman
commissioner plenipotenttarv "a reure-
sem sem our government and conduct the ne
sutiatIons or reciprocity treaties with
Sundry foreign states and Mr. Easson en-
! Iercd upon his duties and prosecuted them
with distinguished abilities consliTnunate
skill and great success. He necotiafed
| numerous trade treaties with South
american republics, British and Danish
west lndla Islands. and some IF The Cen
tfal American states. But the most i'm
portant and the most advantageous treaty
ne negotiated was with the Powerful and
opuient republic of France.
30 well was President McKinley yIeased
WITH the extensive labors of his commits
sloner that he transmitted thu treaties 10
the senate and recommended that thev be
IatIIled- Here was the only real chance
me republican party ever had TO vitalize
great idea Of James G. Blaine that the
republican party has been bra gEing about
since iS90-and what did they do? Nothing
absolutely nothing. Every one of those
treaties-ten in all-sleeps the sleep that
knows no waking. and long ago Mr.
Mason resigned his trust in Disgust
Under the Dingley tariff il is unlawful
70 Concede to foreign countries a reduc-
ton exceeding 20 per cent Of Our tariff
rates. and in nearly all the treaties ne
gouated by Mr.. hassOn the concessions
were IZls per cent only. though the re-
ciprocal concessions ne secured in ex-
change were more advantageous TO our
people IN the aggregate, than those he
The Dingley law is the work Of Repub-
means only and is enormously protective
the highest tariff in our history in It's
rates ana levied on more articles than any
other tariff We ever had II was believed
Dy the men who made il that the tariff
would be amply protective even with the
reductions Of 20 per. cent provided for in
me reciprocity clause. and Mr.. Jonathan
!. Dolliver, now a Republican senator
from Iowa, and then member Of the
mousse ways and means committee that
prepared the Dingley bill, said in a speech
IN the senate, that the schedules OF that
law were purpOsely made too high in or
DER 10 facilitate the negotiation of recf-
procity treaties without injury t. the pro-
tectlYe principle, as it is embalmed in the
law.