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Show retaliation Kiuici'i.or. When tho McKinloy tariff bill became a law the cablo was kept bot with threats of retaliation from foreign countries. coun-tries. First came Italy, which would not recognize tho world's fair; then followed fol-lowed Austria, Germany and Franco, who proposed a combination against the alleged outrage, and finally England gave vent to low mutterings of discontent discon-tent and reprisal. One by one, Irow-ever. Irow-ever. the disgruntled nations calmed down, until the last one of them, England, Eng-land, averred last week, through Mr. Goshen, in reply to a question in the house of commons, that the government had no intentions of adopting a policy of tariff retaliation against tho United States. Thanks! But really there nover existed ex-isted any danger from such a measure. Even (he free traders didn't believe it did. Pray, what can the foreigners exclude ex-clude that they have not already excluded, ex-cluded, or tax what they have not already al-ready taxed, of American products? England, especially, could not place retaliatory re-taliatory duties upon our goods without ruining her trade. She needs our cotton, cattle and provisions much more than we need her manufactures which, through the McKinley bill, we propose to foster at home more than ever. Mr. Goshen said it was hoped that the Americans themselves would perceive the mistake they hail made in enacli-ing enacli-ing the new tariff. That is more kindly anyway than threats of retaliation which does not retaliate; more kindly to Great Britain than to the United States. |