Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-17

ing violence to the doctrine OF protec-
tiion. And vet we finei that Blaine, 10
a, direct communication to congress,
recommended an amendment TO Inc
pending tariff bill authorizing the
president to declare the ports of the
United States free to all the products
of any nation of the American hefal-
sphere upon which no export duties
are imposed, whenever and so long as
such nation shall admit to Its ports
free of all national. provincial, munlcl-
pal and other taxes our flour, corn
meal and other breadstuffs, preserved
meats, fish. vegetables and fruits. col
ton seed oil. rice and other provisions
including al, articles Of food, lumhef'
furniture and other articles of wood,
agricultural implements, machinery
mining and mechanical machinery,
structural steel and iron, steel rails,
locomotives, railway cars or suppl es,
street cars and refinel petroleum.
''While the Mckinley bill was under
discussion in the senaHe, Senator Haze
whose loyalty to protection ought not
to be doubted, introduced an amend
ment to it which embodied literally the
recommendation that Blaine had made.
During the same debate, Senator Sher-
man, most arden. protectionist,
offered an amendment which provided
for a reciprocal arrangement with Cam
ada for the free admission of coal into
both countries; and for joint cem-
mission to negotiate 8. full reciprocity
treaty with Canada. During the agi-
tation of that year, Blaine, In ct
ter to Senator Frye, commended in the
highest terms treaty of reciprocity
which General Grant and Mr.. Prescott
had negotiated with the Republic OF
Mexico. This treaty would have es-
tablished substantially, free trade be-
tween the two republics. and 1T ia LED
solely because sugar was admitted free.
under it's provisions. After the hot dis
cussion over reciprocity in the Mckin-
ley bill, it finally embraced both COM
petive and nom competitive articles.
That is TO say sugar, molasses, cof-
fee tea and hides were admitted free
of duty, and the president was author
lied to put them dowI upon dutiable
list if any country sending them here
failed to treat our eXE orts fairly.
Shaw's Mistake.
The secretary of the treasury, who
has the honor of being the most rigid
among those who are inflexible against
either reciprocity or revision, unless 1t
be to revise upward FOR use as re-
talfatory weapon, in a speech recently
delivered in Des Moines, is reported. as
saying that the explanation of the re-
fusal of the senate to consider the
French Kasson treaty is that 1t gives
everything to France and nothing to
the United States. 1 must do him the
justice to believe that he never read the
treaty, for otherwise he has committed
grave offense against the prophecies
of debate. I pause a moment to
give you my understanding of the pro-
posed arrangement between France
and the United States.
I'VE now enter thu. markets of
France under a maximum tariff, which,
excluding oil, is more than 25 per cent
higher than that pai6 by most of our
competitors. The arrangement con-
summated by Mr.. Ka,sson admitted all
our products under the minimum tar
if save the following: Horses, butter,
lucerne, clover seed, fodder, cast iron,
skins and hides (preplred), boots and
shoes and parts of same, belts and
cords and other leather articles manu-
featured for machinery, dynamos, ma
chine tools, dynamo conductors and
parts, arc lamps known as regulators,
sugar, chicory roots, green or dried,
eggs, cheese, honey, porcelain, csrd-
board, rough in sheets.
w 70 Of
from 5 to 20 per cent upon certain ar
ticles, list of which / have before me.
They include 1875 items out 7O5 in our
schedules. Upon these items the
average reduction was not quite z
per cent. The maximum reduction
upon imports of any great con-
sequence-twenty per cent-was made
upon cotton hosiery and knit goods,
and there still remained upon these
things duty of more than. fifty per
cent ad valorem. The remaining av-
erage duty upon all the articles in
the list as / compute it, exceeds fifty
seven per cent more than enough to
fill the full measure Of protection, but
even were it not so, the advantages
accruing to the United States are SO
marked and so far sl.rpass the. disad-
vantages that I am compelled to be-
lieve that the reason assigned for the
inaction of the senate, by the secre-
tary of the treasury, is not the true
one; that it remains in the dusty
archives of this illustrious body un-
noticed and neglected simply because
there is a spirit abroad there which
forbids any interference with the tariff
with the exception above noted, it
has never been claimed that the
French treaty would interfere with any
interest save a few
mills manufacturing cotton knit goods,
and few factories producing CT cap
jewelry. AS to the latter, they are
now sending their stuff all over the
world; and as to the former their
welfare has been preferred to that of
the millions who labor upon our farms
and the incompara'bly greater interests
Of other MANUFACTURER who are barred 4
from the markets of France.
'While have no hope of the ra.if1-
cation of the French treaty, do nope
that it will not be siife in the future
for any man to practice upon the
credulity of confiding public with re-
spect to the reason for it's failure.
No Advantage Over England.
"Another objection urged to the
French treaty as well as any proposed
rro ', ra,oent with Germanv nv tho 500