Show how a person can claim that a high tariff or any tariff for that matter ie a good thing and the next moment say that reciprocity ic albo a coed thing cannot be explained en any theory that will e considered reasonable we would like to know what difference them is between reciprocity and free trade reciprocity with brazil is free trade with brazil neither mure nor lesa in truth reciprocity as applied by mr Blaine goes further than the democrats have proposed to RO abo latter mayine that custom duties bibuld bo imposed for revenue reye nue herald democrats often reason in ahac whether they do it through a lack of good judgment yr partisan blindness wei cannot say however we feel constrained to give them the benefit of a doubt and attribute the above assertion solely to partisan dic tates the leaders and editors love to blind the people and therefore they say one thing while they know that giving the true coloring would alter their arguments to this class of democrats the words of apply with singular force he says hateful to me as the gates of hell Is he who biding one thine in his heart utters another the editor of the herald reciprocity and free trade is not the same thing free trade admits of goods from all countries regardless of whatever lestric lions a nation may put on goods from the free trade country its ports are open to the world reciprocity says we will trade with our friends only they dang us a good turn we will reciprocate by this way our foreign trade is in creased because we aall conr markets to make markets abroad all ports thus necessarily increase our exports again the theory is fully in accord with the protective policy of the ee publicans public ans protection to amer ican is a stepping stone to ultimate free trade when manufacturers are made self sustaining under the fostering care of protection the tariff should be removed oar infant cotton industry for example could not odist in direct competition with the old established mills of englard Engl aad but they can compete with the industry in brazil where mills are also just springing into existence reciprocity throws our cotton works into direct competition with brazilian mills and gives them markets yet brazilian tariff still protects our wares against the cheap labor of the old world ascer i tain american gooda are admitted to the worthem porta free of duty while the englishman must pay from twenty to thirty five per cent on bis wares reciprocity in short unites the weak against the strong ia of courser a system of free trade carried on between the countries that enter into reciprocal treaties but it is cot the democratic free trade that tends to ruin american industries to lessen our foreign commerce and make our country a vassalage commercially speaking to great other manufacturing countries of the old world |