Show THE RECIPROCITY TREATIES A late publication of the Treasury department contains tho entire series dopntment OC reciprocity treaties and agreements made by the United States since 18M and the pending unratllled treaties I from which the Injunction oC secrecy whlcl has been removed are also published department hap made these publications cations In recognition of the fact that reciprocity and efforts to modify the I tariff are likely to command much attention at-tention during the coming session of Congress The treaties that Mr Kasson negotiated nego-tiated on the reciprocity Idea were before be-fore the Senate at Its session last l winter win-ter and received scant courtesy that body not seeing its way clearly to the ratification of them The fact Is 1 that reciprocity la i merely the abolition or I modification of our tariff laws for the enlargement of our trade with the country with which we make the reciprocal reci-procal agreement But that trade may or desirable and not bo advantageous or eirable whatever wo coin wltb one country by this means we would be liable to lose with another Then there would ba endless complication and manifold pleadings oC the most favored nation clause by all the Great powers with whom vi havo treaties of friendship and commerce Andrew Carnegie has been an enthusiastic reciprocity man I but he now admits that the dllllculllefl i In the way of carrying out ail such agreements are wellnigh Insuperable for every friend we would make we would acquire half D dozen enemies and It Is wellnigh hopeless to expect any real advantage out of such treaties So that we dont believe there will be any reciprocity treaties at the coming session The modification of the tariff In another an-other direction has been urged by Representative Rep-resentative Babcock of Wisconsin 0 member of the Committee on Ways and Mcan which deals with the tariff question Ho1 Is strenuous to have the tariff taken oftor at least greatly lowered low-ered from articles produced by ere trusl f thAt IS whenever a combination combina-tion shows that It can produce an article arti-cle In this country and sell Its product In the markets of tho world In competition compe-tition with freetrade countries that shows there is no further need ot protection pro-tection here and the tariff can betake be-take off not only without Injury but to the positive benefit of the country This view loses sight of two facts first that these combinations as the steel trust could l not go Into the markets of the world and compete without having the protection at home which gives them a secure anchorage and second it leaves out of the account the steel producers that are not In tho combination combi-nation who need the protection to enable en-able them to get along at all and who rely on the home market anti not on foreign orders Taking oft the tarhi therefore would crush out all horns competition to the big trust and leave It the master of the field on Its own I terms We do not believe then that after a full consideration oC the whole question Congress will consent to this modification of the tariff nor that It should do so I Another 0 push for i triff revision has a doubleaction Itwould I favortfie sugar trust and so Is clamored for by representatives of that trust and It Is also urged by the Cuban lobby we refer to the sentiment In favor oC the free admission of raw sugar from Cuba This would give the Cuban planters all the advantage or our markets without with-out any obligation of taxation or responsibility re-sponsibility for the maintenance of those markets or In any way giving 3 quid pro quo I Cuba could get that she might snap her fingers In our faces it would be all that the annexatlonlsts base their arguments upon without annexation I an-nexation It would be n free pillage ofl our people I would also be a fine thing for the sugar trusts on both I coasts the day on which the Senate committee agrees to such a proposition every Senators hired girl could make him rich unbeknown to Himself after af-ter the 0 McPherson precedent The op oncnts of this programme would be the American people In i general and our beetsugar producers in particular whose business now getting fairly established es-tablished on prosperous lines would be threatened with ruin by the adoption 9such a programme Free raw sugar from Cuba would mean the Cree raw sugar of hp world for all tjje earths 1 surplus could be sent to Cuba for re shipment to the United States We dont believe that this I Ievc Cuban and su gartrust programme can win We conclude then that Congress Is not likely to make these changes In tariff In fact we do not see why it should make any material matorllichanges I hcntho country Is prosperous as It now Is and when our induatrial development de-velopment Ison c plane far higher than tmn ever before n fa not good sense to tamper tam-per with the prime cause of that prost pros-t qnd development In the words of Mark Hanna the people are disposed to let well enouGh alone ti J ° nCl and In that mind they y are emphatically emphatcaly right |