Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-09-14
FREE TRADE TO BE BOOMED
Agitation of Competitive Reciprocity
Would Help the Demo-
cratic Party.

The republican policy is closely de-
fined in the national platforms of the
party, the legislation of republican
congresses and the utterapces of Pres
idents Harrison, Mckinley and Roose-
welt and other leaders Of the party.
That policy, says the Burlington Hawk
eye, is fundamentally rooted upon the
doctrine of protection. Reciprocity is
an adjunct which is available where
ever in practice it does not vitiate or
clash with protection. Republican reci-
procity contemplates free trade in non
competitive products of field, factory,
mine and forest i would not harm
American industries.
Democratic reciprocity reverses the
principle. 1t contemplates free trade
in products and merchandise that
would compete with like articles pro-
duced in the United States. That is
why democrats are so strongly in sym
pathy with the Chicago gathering The
more effectually to cloak the Interior
purposes of the promoters, a strong
effort is making to impress the public
with the belief that it is wholly repub-
lican in origin. Upon this point the
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep) says:
There are excellent reasons for
thinking otherwise, and some of these
may be unintentionally Illuminated in
the course of the proceedings. Quite
a number of democratic leaders have
been injudicious enough to let their
zeal run away with their discretion,
and to put them on record as heartily
approving the movement and declared
purposes. The democratic press has
been even less discreet, and the con-
gress is sure to find plenty of eXploita-
tion in their columns, with commenda-
tion of everything it proposes doing"
The Globe Democrat brings out a list
of political history to which the Hawk
eye on several occasions has referred
and which it is we'll to recall at this
juncture:
"One of the most unfortunate things
for the country in recent years was the
attitude of Mr.. Blaine toward the Nc
Kinley law while that measure was in
process of formulation in the commit
tees and in the two houses of congress.
Mr.. Blaine was continuously insisting
upon the incorporation of reciprocity
treaties as a part of the tariff policy
of the Republican party. and on more
than one occasion he carried his en-
thuSiasm 10 the point of denouncing
the lines on which the Mckinley bill
was then being framed. The result of
such an attitude of such a leader was
thGt the Mckinley law became opera
tive under cloud. if not actually dis
credited. in the estimation of thous.
ands of republicans, and at the first
election following its operation the
democratic party acquired such mo-
mentum that Cleveland, two years
later, swept the country
''It is now IL years since the country
began reaping the first bitter fruits
of that folly. But it is little more
than half that time since when. having
turned back to Mckinley and his poll
cies, we began to gather again the
fruits of wisdom. Seven years is hard
Iy sufficient length of time for us to
| forget the lesson we then learned and
return to the old and discredted cry
which was the first cause of our mis-
fortunes. Only the leaders Of the dem
ocratic party can profit from renewal
of reciprocity agitation. And unless
the colored brother is very skillfully
concealed in the woodpie. some of
/ them are likely to be discovered in the
background of the Chicago Reciprocity
convention, along with the beef trust
and other trusts which are pro-
noting it,"