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Show nrcifimriTr. Neerrtarx nialne and the Ilosloa ISool anil Shoe Club. Boston, Sept. 16. In resionse to an invitation to the annual banquet of the Root aud Shoe Clubof Boston. Colonel Cbpp. edllorof tho Journaf, has received a letter from Mr.Iilaloe in whlcii tho Secretary of State, referring re-ferring to the portion of the Invitation Invita-tion siying that tlio members of the club are In hearty sympathy with his views regarding the beat method oiextenulug American trade, re- 3 ret tint he is not permitted to ad-ress ad-ress the meeting. Tlw members of the club, he says can do great (Joed by counteracting a certain phAe of New Englaul opinion which ho regard! as hurtful to New England Interests. New Engltnd Is to receive re-ceive In the new ttrlff complete protection for every manufacturing inJfUtry within her borders, and it Will, In. the Judgment of the Secretary Secret-ary of Statr.be both liieipbd.'cntanJ Injurious for her representative! to disregard a measure which promotes pro-motes western Interests. Mr. Blalue refers to a letter recently re-cently received from the president of the late convention of millers, referring re-ferring to the excessive duties on American Hour in Cuba, and elating elat-ing that Americans will be unable to return any jwrtion of tlie Hour trade, unless Immediate relief b Secur-d. In iew of these facts, say Mr. Illaiue, b It polblo that a protectionist congress can even think of OPENING THE MARKETS to Cuba's products free, whileallow-ingagrcat whileallow-ingagrcat wide Industry to be absolutely ab-solutely excluded from her markets by a prohibitory tarlfr? With reciprocity recip-rocity the n est can annually sell a hundred thousand burets of flour In Cuba an 1 Porto Rico, together with a large mass of other agricultural agri-cultural products. Without reciprocity recip-rocity she nil! bo driven more and mere from thrso markets givlngthe fullest protection to all the eastern Interests, the proposed tariff bill does. Surely, no man of good judgment, and certainly no protectionist of wise forecast wishes to expose a western Interest to serious injury, eecclally when it b manifestly easy to protect and promote It manifestly easy because at this very time the boards of trade, chambers of commerce nnd public opinion in Havana arcdemaniiingareclpro-cal arcdemaniiingareclpro-cal treaty with the United States. Certain wb-e men have asked: "How can we sell farm products iu South America, when tlie same things are produced there?" Cereals are undoubtedly grown In South Ameilca, a portion of South America, but wise men will remember remem-ber that CEKKALS AND SUGAR do not Rrow on tho same soil, and the countries of Piutli and Central America and the West Indies contain con-tain forty millions of people who Import the Hrget trtion of their bread-taffs I ndeed tlie largest ir-tion ir-tion of tlie sugar product of Latin-America Latin-America is at our doors and we can greatly enbrgn our exchanges then, if Congress will give us an opiior-tunity opiior-tunity of rechcoral trade. "Another clas observe that they want time to study the system. To thb I might reply that the best method to slu-ly n system b to observe ob-serve its practical working. "While stuJring iu the abstract and refusing to take some object lessons, these gentlemen propose to open our market to Ijatin-Amcrican products, free of all charg", without asking l.alln- tnerlca to give us iu urn tlie same freedom. The results of the object Iton immediately before us urge treatment of the sugar quest! n. Shall we make Ii-itln-Amerknagiftof that trade? When we have studied that lesson we shall be pripard.1 fora second. "The wotst i roposllion of all b put forth by those who say: 'Let us put sugar on the frre lKt now, and next year Like up the subject of reciprocity.' If I understand their logic Iti. tondm't sugar free thb year, without condition, and ntxtycar to ask Spain If she will not kindly cuiiKnt to grant reciprocal reci-procal trade. Holding complete vantage ground theuselves, they propose a policy that will transfer the vantage to Sutu Those vho take this ground belong to that class of careful or Aitm ns ok rnoi'EitTY who prepare a strong lock fir the stable niter the horse U gone. "I do not mean Iu anything I ImvHsald to Imply, that reciprocity b only a Western Interest. It will prove beneficial and (iroOUble loth to the farm atid shop. The many forms in which our business interests inter-ests will be promoted by reclprocity cannot be known until tlie active commercial meu of the United Sla'cs shall liave developed those forms by Inves'Igatlon and experience. experi-ence. We shall not realize the full benefits of the policy in n day, or a year, but shall we therefore throw away countless millions of trade In aJditlon to the sixty millions we have already thrown away, and then Ignorantly declare, without trial, that 'too system won't work?'" "Finally, there Is one fact that should have great weight, especially with tlio protectionists Every frce-tralcr frce-tralcr in the Senile voted against reciprocity. Tho free trade patiers throughout the country are showing determined hostility to it. "It Is evident that the free trade senators aud free trade ars have specific reasons for their course. They ktiow aud feel that with a system sys-tem of reciprocity established and growing, their policy of free trade reccbes a most serious blow. The protectionist who opposes reciprocity in the form In which It is now presented pre-sented knocks away one of the strongest supports of his system. Tlie enactment ot reciprocity b a safeguard safe-guard of protection. The defeat of nvlpruclty is the opportunity of free trade." |