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Show m'mgo, would involve discriminations against the competing produce of countries coun-tries which fail to ater into equitable trade relations, and justly so. Venezuela Venezu-ela levies duties ou American flour, and she cannot fairly expect the United States to receive her coffee and hides on equal terms with the same products pro-ducts from Brazil, which country admits our liour on far more favorable schedules. sched-ules. The Spanish West Indies having opened their markets to our exports, will have a discrimination made in favor of their sugar as against that imported im-ported from the British West Indies, if the latter shall still refuse to take advantage of the reciprocity arrangement. arrange-ment. Mexico is moving in the direction of negotiating a reciprocal treaty, anil will doubtless consummate it before January 1, prox. Several South American Amer-ican countries have the matter under consideration, and it will be strange if they do not come to terms within the next month, rather than be placed at a great disadvantage with Brazil in the markets of the United States. It is unfortunate that the Central anil South American countries have been the scene of so much political disturbance dis-turbance just at the time when the reciprocity reci-procity scheme was making such an auspicious beginning. Sow that Chile and Brazil are rid of their dictators, it is hoped the new commercial era with our southern neighbors will be uninterrupted. T11K ltKCII'ltOHTV I -:!tIOI. Only a month remains of the terra allowed al-lowed for the negotiation of reciprocity treaties under the Alduich amendment to the McKinlky tariff law. After January Jan-uary 1, Iti'Jl, the president will be under obligations to re-impose duties on colTee, sugar, molasses and hides imported im-ported from those countries which neglect ne-glect to comply with the reiuirements of the free market for their products. Even if this duty of the president were not imposed by act of. congress, the arrangements ar-rangements already made with Brazil, the Spanish West Indies and San Do- |