Show I WIDER MARX TS DEMANDED The Baltimore American believe that wider markets are needed for this country It complains and the New York Commercial Advertiser reiterates and emphasizes the cpmplaint that the American farmer and tradesman would do better with an extension of commercihl opportunities Both of these nreadministration Republican Re-publican organs They favored the tc Kinlcy tariff and supported the Dingley bill But something has begun to open their eyes They taU no longer about the home market humbug they used to enthuse the people about They are not trying to cut off foreign exchange of products any longer They are not urging the restriction of thin American farmer to the home market mar-ket in these latter days The folly of McKinleyism and of Dingleyism is beginning to show itself A prohibitory tariff is no longer as attractive at-tractive as once it seemed It wouldnt surprise us much to see the Repub lican part declare for a tariff for revenue only inside of four years The drift is in that direction Reciprocity Re-ciprocity is a step beyond It even Reciprocity Re-ciprocity is free trade between selected se-lected countries and wider markets mean more free trade Who thought three years ago that lending Republican Republic-an organs would abandon their home market scheme and advocate an extension ex-tension of free trade privileges for American goods and products The article approved by the Republican Repub-lican journals mentioned is in part as follows Our congress should address itself more industriouslY than ever to the wIdening of the market for American goods in South America and in the east It IS in countries like these where industrial operations are not carried on successfully by the natives that the question of the superiority of goods and the control of the mtrlet will be decided Already certain grhdes of American cotton goods find an increasing in-creasing sale In the East our agricultural agricul-tural implements and hardware In general gen-eral our flour and other products are extensively used In the countries to the i south of us but the business could be vastly increased Active agents of the I government at consular posts and live commercial travelers and especially legislation from congress that will not I put fetters on our exports in the way J of provoking the natives to retaliate by I the imposition of heavy duties on imports im-ports are needed if the trade is to be obtained from our very active competitors com-petitors who are always ready to accede I ac-cede to the demands of those with whom they do business Imperialism or territorial expansion as advocated by the Republicans of Utah is another way of widening the market of battering down the wall of protection which the McKinleys and the DIngleys and the trusts behind I them have succeeded in building up to the injury of American trade I If this policy of expansion had no other but a commercial side Democrats I would favor it more generally Many of them support it anyhow for the purpose of trade extension alone and in order to reverse the oldtime policy of the Republican party But territorial expansion beyond this continent involves risks and disadvantages disadvan-tages which seem to outweigh the benefits to be derived or the satisfaction satisfac-tion of seeing Republicans tear down I their Chinese wall of protection I |