Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-05-31


situation calls for radical treatment,
but rather for the adoption of con
sentative policy looking more to tire
opening up than to the bottling-up' of
our commerce"
At the second days session OF the
annual convention of the international
association of manufacturers In
Atlanta Eugene n. Foss OF Massa-
chusetts, in an address on Reciprocity
and Economic Policy and its Relation
TO our Foreign Trade, after reviewing
the trade agreements made under
President Mckinley with France, Ge'
many, Italy and Portugal, under which
some slight reductions were granted
to these countries, draws attention to
the fact that, notwithstanding that
the reductions of duty granted by the
president in some cases exceeded the
20 per cent permitted by section OF
the Dingley act, it has been found in
practice that no injury to Am crican
producers has resulted from these
treaties. He 4tes that within their
limitations the operation of these
treaties has been beneficial and in
some cases they have saved us the
foreign market in competition.
If the south desires fully to develop
its resources, to build up it's com
merce ana its industries, and to strive
Tor the attainment of an assured
future of prosperity, it must EN-.
phatically protest, continued MI.
Sehwab, against any medieval policy
of trade prohibition, it must insist up
on the letting down ot the bars to per,
NIT an equitable and profitable ex.
change of products with the nations
of the world, and it must bring all its
influence and power to bear in favor
of the conclusion of reciprocal trade
agreements calculated to increase and
enlarge the volume of commerce. IL
such an enlightened policy is adopted
the ports of the south will reap the
benefit in traffic, and the farmer, the
manufacturer, the miner and the mer-
chant will rejoice in enlarged OPP
portunities for the exchange of the
products of their toll.
Foreign trade, or course, is entirely
dependent upon transportations and il
is of the greatest importance to the
south that it should be placed in fire.
quent regular and direct communica-
ton through regular lines of steam
ships with foreign ports in order to
secure the advantage of cheap trans
portation in competition with other
sections Of our country. Regularity
of service is essential to the fullest
development of commerce. and while
many of tn ports of the south enjoy
an irregular service of so-called tramp
steamers that come and go at in
tervals as opportunity offers, but few
main ain the regular lines of steam
ships that a highly developed trade de
mands. To attract such regular lines
of steamships, the reasonable prospect
of remunerative inward and outward
cargoes must be in sight or at least
the probability of Ultimate profitable
development of such inward and out
ward trade must be sufficiently en-
couraging to justify the establishment
of res ular services. The permanence
of a regular line of steamers would
also be insured by a remuneratiye
passenger traffic between the south
and Europe, such as has been de.
yelJped on lines from Galveston, New
Orleans and Baltimore. When once
established such regular lines I'M
Guestionably add greatly to the
material development of any country,
but to secure them the importing and
exporting trade of the section to be
served must be a growing one and the
country must be attractive to settlers.
and thus the steamship line and the
commercial int crest it ministers to are
dependent one upon the other and the
welfare of the one reacts upon tn"
other.
We have drawn from European
countries first the Irish, then the
Germans and the Scandinavians, and
finally the nationalities of southern
Europe, one supplanting the other in
the labor market as each nationality
rose in intelligence and competence,
but we always have received the pro-
ductve power enabling us to carry or
the work of development aad exploita-
ton of the unlimited material re-
sources of our country. In receiving
this great army of workers We have
as has been computed by politicaI
economists, profited in economic value
on an average SLIPS for every able
bodied male immigrant over 20 years
of age, this sum representing the
actual addition made to our working
capital.
The settlements of Italians and
Poles in the agricultural section of the
state of New York, and in other parts
of the country, show the result OBJ
tanned through the influx OF these
thrifty people. The authors OF the
work The Italian in America, an able
representation of the contribution OF
Italy to American development and
citizenship, quote the mayors OF
Bridgeport, Conn, Schenectady, Utica,
and Syracuse, n. Y, as very favorabiy
impressed with the good citizenship
aid sterling qualities of the large
Italian settlements in those cities, and
draw attention to a number of Italian
colonies il New Jersey, in Texas, in
Tennessee, in California, in North
Carolina, in Mississippi, and in
Louisiana, which are known as pros.
porous. industrious and law-abiding,
The same book contains interesting
reports on the success of the Italians