OCR Text |
Show BLAINE'S EFFORT. lie DcIItcts aa Addrrs Before a Sua Mcetinc or walne CepubIIt?JB. DEAUNC WITH VARIOUS NATIONAL NA-TIONAL QUESTIONS. He itpfAls Oat Emphatically on lite Snbjrct or a IrotrttlTP Tarirr, AND POINTS OUT ITS ADVANTAGES. ADVAN-TAGES. A Mistake In Ipndlallng Duties on so Large an Amount or Import. ByTeJeznph totteNrws.1 , BLAIE AT THE STICKETW. He Iretlrcra an Aditrew lo ltepnb. lleatta In atalno. Watebvillk, Maine, Aug. 29. A republican mass meeting was held tonight and after Governor Burleigh had spoken. President mall or Colby University Introduced Intro-duced "the leader or the repuL-llcan repuL-llcan party and the foremost advocate advo-cate of a protective tariff, Hon. James G. lllaine." In regard do national questions ISL-tlne satd:"I wish to dea'are the opinion Uiat the United States has reached a lnt where one of Its highest duties is to eulargc the area of its foreign trade. Under the Ieu-etlct-nt silicy of protecUon they liaedcclieda volume of manufacturers manu-facturers which, In many departments, depart-ments, overruns the demands ot Uie home market. In the field of agriculture, agri-culture, with tho inimensv proor lions given It by agricultural Implements, Imple-ments, we can do far more than produce breadstuff's and provisions fur our own people. Nor would it be an ambitious desUny for so great a country as ours to manufacture only what we consume, or produce only what we cau eat. We are al ready, In many fabrics and In many products, far beyond Uiat, and our great demand is expansion. I mean expansion of traje wiUi countries where we can find profitable exchanges. ex-changes. ' We are not seeking the annexation annexa-tion of territory, aud certainly we do not de-ire it, uultsa It should come by volition of the -opIe who might ast Uie priceless boon of a place under Uie lla of our Union. I (eel sum that for a long lime to come the people of Uie United Slates will be wisely coutent with our present area, and nut launch on an scheme of aunexstljiu At the san.e time. I think we would be unwisely content con-tent if we did not seek to engage iu what the younger Pitt well termed the ANNEXATION OF THAI E. "For nearly thirty years now, the United States has haJ the great advantage ad-vantage of a protrcUve tariff bs a far longer unbroken period than any Industrial iwlicy has been enforced sluceUie lateral government was organized. Happily, a great majority ma-jority of our la-uple, without strict regard to lurty lines, bclievo'the results Is the American people from a protective jicy have ln-eii of Incalculable In-calculable benefit, aggregating iu a quarter of a century of national and individual wealth ta-youd aiiythiii; ever dreamed of tefore iu the hl-tor of the world. 'I no nut mention protection, be cau-e I intend to speak lu reference t'ltreti. Ia-furetriis.iudi.iice. That would le needle. If not an iiu-pertluent iiu-pertluent effort. I inrrely wish to proclaim its victories. Without prote. tiou the Till tel State would be sxir iudeed. AfU-r I ho ravages of a war from IS1".! tolSSS, with protection pro-tection every Stale nourished aud l-naqiered, grew and gained, liven where revenue duties were levied wiUi no exiwctatiou of Jefelopiug industries there have, lu iiieuy ir-staoces, ir-staoces, lievn great indir-ttisl re suits. The heavy duly uu silk was levied, primarily, not forprulettlon. but simply to secure a large revenue from out of the luxuries of the rich, but, as a consequence, tho silk industry in-dustry iucreaseu so rapidly thai it constitutes one of the lead I ng fabrics of New Jersey, one of Uie largest ruanufacturiugStatesof the Union. "I could reaiily advance oUier lllustraUona to the same effect. As I have already Intimated, 1 am here lnseak ou iho exinusiun of our foreign trade, not by any novel pro-ce; pro-ce; not by any means that will shock or disturb the home I ndustrie; not by any means that will Invite our people to rash experiment, or Uiat will launch us In doubtful and dangerous Investments. What 1 mean to speak of briefly is a system of reciprocity, not in conflict wiUi the protective tariff, but supplementary supple-mentary thereto, and presenting a field for enterprise that will richly rejay the efforts and EN Tatar OF THE 1'EOI'LE. 'We shall find it Instructive and valuable to examine the sources of our Imports and the desUnatlon of our exports, and to strike a balance between Uie two. Take last year, 1SS9: In Uiat year our whole exports to all countries In the three couUuenta of Kurope, Asia aud Africa, and Australia, Canada and Hawaii amounted In round numbers to $-WS,00i),000, and our bniwrui from all tliora countries amounted In round numbers to$529,. OOO.OOJ, showing that from thatva-t trade we had a balance of $129,000, 00) In our favor, equivalent to Uiat amount in gold to our people, but when all accounts Were closed, Instead In-stead ot having $129,000,000 Iu our favor, we had a balance of $13,000,-000 $13,000,-000 against us from our foreign trade. We must, therefore, liave lost 3142,-000,000 3142,-000,000 In our commerce vrltli Uie countries outside of those to which 1 have referred. "Where could we have found such a Urge adverse balance? Let me tell you. We lost $11,000,000 In Cuba, from which our Imparts were $52,OuO,(M0, and to which our ex ports were only $11,000,000. Forty-one Forty-one millions is a pretty large sum to lose lu one Island In a single year. I n the republic of Until we left $31,000,000. Our exports to Brazil were $9,000,000. "In Mexico we lost $10,000,0X1. Our Imports from Mexico were $21,-OoM.OOi) $21,-OoM.OOi) and our exports to Mexico were $11,000,000. "To sum It all up, our imports from Uie countries south of us were $210,000,000; our exports to them were $74,000,000. The lalance against us in our trade wiUi these countries, tberefore.was $142,000,000, exceeding ourgainsfrom all Uie rest of the world by $13,000,000. By no figure of speech CAN WE FLATTER OURSELVES into Uie belief that our trade wiUi our American neighbors is In a prosperous pros-perous condition. How can this state of affairs be remedied; You have beard a great deal said In the past ten years by our democraUc friends about the Iniquity of Uie republican party Iu kteplng up a war tariff. Aa a matter of fact, the war tariff has net been kept up, lait has been amended ovee and over again, unUl thersvlsioacf 1553 left scarcely a trace or Uie net u si tariff that war In operation ai the dole of HMMalalTa the war and for a few years afterwards. after-wards. "During the war we were com-pelted com-pelted to tax almost everything in the air, on tho water, on the earth and under Uie earth. The necessities of government were so great that we could allow scarcely anything to be Imported without paying tribute, and I think no patriotic citizen a-llldeny that that was a wise policy. poli-cy. We were not then studying the philosophy or traJe relations, but how to save the lite ot Uie naUon. Money was a primal necessity, and we seized it wherever we could reach It lawfully, but during tho last eighteen years a great change has been made. So entirely has the war tax bten abolished Uiat in Uie fiscal year ending June 30, 1SS9, the articlts admitted free were considerably con-siderably more than one-halfof all the imports. To be exact, vre ini- orted article tint paid a duty exceeding ex-ceeding $tea,000,000 in value, and lniiorted articles tint pal I no duty exceeding $2M,000,000 In value. The inevitable tendency is, I think, towards to-wards free trade. "Our great mistake was made when we bi-gau to repudiate duties on so large an amount of Imports. ANY IHTY KEI'KALKO was a favor aud an advantage to the exporting country, and we have asked nothing In return I must say that this was only carelessness and was done by both political parties. par-ties. Kvery rea-al of duty should iiave been preceded by a most thorough thor-ough Investigation, and whenever It was found practlcabla to export anythln; from the United States, and thus establish reciprocity of trade. It should liave been done. 1 do nut, of course, intend to dt-elare or to imply tint we could have secured the free admission of zZsi,-000,000 zZsi,-000,000 In American products Into the countries from which wu purchase pur-chase annually to that amount. Tho richer country cannot expect to get complete reclpmclty lu amount from countries less wealthy, but whatever we should iiave received re-ceived would be a clear gain, and iu all future repeals ot duties, whatever we may be able to get will be a clear gain. "It Is not a question of settling deliberately to work to establish reciprocity re-ciprocity of exdianges, but with all the duties we have repealed thus far it should have been a question of whether we should get something or get noUiIng. We have chosen with our eyes closed to get nothing. I hoie now, wiUi out eyes open, that we shall In Uie future choose to get something. 'We encounter opposition to this policy front Uiose w ho declare that when we enter into reciprocity of trade with one country we m ustdoso with all countries, audlbusludirect-ly audlbusludirect-ly bring about free trade. I do not see the logic of tills, and I am sure the fails will not prove what Is predicted. pre-dicted. We ENTEIt INTO KECirnOCITY with one nation, because we find it Is to our advantage, aud we may decline to enter into reclproxity wlUi another nation liecause we see iu advantage In it. Reciprocity is simply a iwlicy of circumstance, to be determined favorably or unfavorably, unfavor-ably, according aa Its ulceration may make or lose for us. To jay, because we enter into reciprocal relations with one country on one Uilng we must enter into reciprocity wlui all oilier countries, I, to my mind, as absurd as to say Uiat, If I buy a horse tc-Jay I must necessarily buy a drove of asses tomorrow. All objections of that kind are, I am sure, unfair an J will not stand argument or practical trial. "Ourjfople do not readily seethe great fact that siccle aj ment Ls el -aingcred In this country. It Is likely to bo endan?ired by our pres-eut pres-eut system of trade w itli the LaUc-Anicricau LaUc-Anicricau Statis. The few millions In gold that have gone out of the i-mntry within the last three months have created uneasiness lu certain quarters rs to our financial iwillbu. It Is extraordinary Uiat lh.se millions from the banks of Wall Street should be accounted so serious an event, when we liasc lost a much larger amount during the same leriud from oar own trade wilhUiecnuutriosouthoru, without with-out exciting the least observation. Wlieu our merchants and bankers come to thoughtfully npl rexla'e the fact, wesliall receive an intluence from a quarter which thus far it has Un-n Impossible to enllsL" "I lie large audience listened wiUi the profoundest attcuUon, ami Uie Speech met with treat approval. J Ion. Wiil E. M uou lollowoi, endorsing en-dorsing in an euthu-Iastic sictcIi the principles of reciprocal trade. Tho meeting closed with an earnest speech by Henry Culot Idge, advocating ad-vocating the federal electiou bill, and Informing the voters that lh-government lh-government inut protect all its citizens in the right to vote. |