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Show I RECIPROCITY AND FREE TRADE. I - A pecu'iar combination for Republican? Republi-can? toiidmne is Jim Blaine and his view s - n high tariff and friendly trade with foreign countries. Bi.aink is a smart man, . nd a shrewd schemer. ; lie is a Republican, and 1-eIieves in tar-ib' tar-ib' for revenue only, m-d easy friendly trade with foreign countries, know ing tl at under iliese conditions only, can America prosper as she shoid I. These views, advocated bv a Democrat, are called those absurd ideas about free trad.-. ,s we have said, great, b'g JtM U a Be; ub'ican and a schemer. j He knows the hold he has got on his p aty, iiml II e pul' he has got to become be-come nominee of his party for the Pies-id.-.-iuy. He d -esn't I ke to oiiVnd t he delicate eais of the members of that-pat that-pat ty by calling it free trade so he uses, that smooth word "Reciprocity." Am!, in tact, vrSat is the oitl'-ieiice '. etween ' ree traiL- ; n r ci-: ci-: proc:ty? Our even ng eotem , in one of its usual masted.. (?) ar.ide.-, teU I u It says: For example, we buy from Brazil' I'ot.riiuies t he amount i hat i- purchases, from the I'll ted State. 1'nci.K Sam sit d t that roiiniry that io i--w of the f;.ci that it h id such a great balance of ; ra le in .ts favor it could well afford to- ', reihi'-e tl e tariff on the exports from this counTy. anil in re' urn the tariff' "ii ti e bupoits from Brazil to the V i- ! ted States would he removed. This I Brazil agied to do. ami itopmed markets mar-kets f r our goods in a country almost j as large as our own. j That's it. Glorious and powerful ; ! America must have a high tariff, allowing allow-ing trusts and millionaires to rob the-working the-working man, so as to have a lever with w hicli to force puny, foreign countrie to take our goods free of tariff. We buy four times as muchi from Brazil as Brazil buys from us, I'sclk Sam says: "Now look here, Brazil, if ou are going to make your working men pay you two dollars for , what I sell you for one dollar, I am going go-ing to make my working men pay me eight dollars for what you sell me for . four dollars. You bet; I won't let you get the start of me." I That, is the logic of Ripublicans. I Pshaw!' Knock the tariff off; and let f i's have the goods we buy from Brazil ! for what they are worth, and let Brazil j do as she pleases. She must have our goods, no matter how much she makes f her people pay tor them. Besides, if I she is not now, she soon will be educat- j ! ed so that she will see that this proiee- I t if ti business does not protect. I As we said before, Jim Blaine is a j smart man, and saw that it was neces- sary to increase the trade of the na- I turn some way, and give us some goods i; free from tari.f under a Republican administration, ad-ministration, and he'has thought up tiiis plan, and gulled his own party into in-to actually seeing the advantages of the practical application, under diflicul-ties diflicul-ties of ;t Democratic principle. Of course, he covered it up bv raising the-hue the-hue and cry of forcing other countries to accept our goods free of tariff a-thing a-thing w hich they have been wanting; to-do to-do for years, but would not do, because we were so blind to our own interests- , in not receiving their goods without placing on (hem an unjustifiably higbi tariff. |