Show RETALIATION As THE HERALD has frequently said Mr ELAINES scheme for trading with Central and South America Is not reciprocity but retaliation There is no sound reason under the sun why we should establish reciprocal re-ciprocal free trade with those countries for the purpose of giving our manufacturers cheap hides and wool and forbid a similar arrangement with Canada which would give the people cheap lumber and fish Mr ELAINES policy says to the wool and hide producing state of Central and South America if you do not let us have those I articles free we shall tax your sugar and coffee But let us apply this principle to Great 1 Britain At present it admits our products of all kinds to its ports free of duty permitting 1 per-mitting southern cotton and western west-ern breadstuffs meats and provisions i to be sold In Its markets free of I tax notwithstanding the fact that we impose im-pose an import duty on nearly everything l the British people send us in return But II t suppose the government should authorize 1 Queen VICTORIA to withdraw the privilege of its free markets to us so long as wo denied de-nied the free privilege of our markets to the people of that nation and to impose duties on our plantation and farm products in retaliation s re-taliation for our unfriendly policy of placing plac-ing duties on their manufactures what a i predicament It would place us in 1 The value of the British markets to our farmers would be destroyed and the whole country would suffer Immensely from a dose of its own medicine The ELAINE scheme to dragoon certain 5 ountriesinto free trade places the result J of failure not as a penalty on the recalcitrant recalcit-rant countries but on our own people Refusal fusal to accede means more burden on us not on them |