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Show RECIPROCITY AND SHIPS. ' - Some of the foremost men in New England are advocating free trade. They are calling up Gov. Andrews' An-drews' words,. spoken. in 1867, which were: The first thfcne New England has to do is to take the ' iaA in free trade T and unrest rained commerce all. over the . U rrf AmerieV" We need the Canadas and we fieed and thrift of our American me chamea. 1 ... And there is where James G. Blaine obtained his ideas of . reciprocity, nd why reciprocity treaties cannot be established between our country and all , gouthern countries on this continent is a, mystery to , us vten it' comes to absolutely free trade,. when " ever it is" proposed or when a tariff reduction pro- ' posed, New England, :true to her own interests, thinks that all raw material ought to be free, but that manufactured articles ought to be protected. That is, sh thinks it : would -be absolutely right to take the tariff away from wool, but that while that was being done a little heavier tariff ought to be placed-on manufactured woolen goods. But free trade is an impossibility. This country coun-try has decided over and over that it does not want it but why reciprocity cannot be established -is one 0f the inscrutable things which we cannot under- S - Bmil is a big country. It wants wheat and flour for the use of its people. It wants to sell to Americans a great deal of sugar and a great deal of coffee. It would s'eerri to us that the sensible thing to do would be" to have Brazilian coffee and sugar come in free and have American flour, corn meal and salt pork sent to Brazil free.- But then, to do that rightly, the flour and salt pork and coal oil-ought to be" sent down there in " American ships and the 'coffee and "sugar brought back , in American ships. It will never be a success so long as the carrying is done both ways by either British or German ships. |