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Show A SENSIBLE CONCLUSION. Last April our now Republican contemporary, con-temporary, the Enquirer, under the head of "Partial Free Trade," gave the analysis of a cargo of a ship that left New York for Brazil, trading under the reciprocity treaty. It showed how probably prob-ably a dozen states contributed towards that cargo of sundry- American pn ducts, for the people of the Southern Republ c, saying, by way of argument: Yin return for all of which we import sugar, coffee, tea, molasses and hides." The Enquirer then very logically adds: This is a fair beginning for the reciprocity recip-rocity treaty, and certainly indicates that a partial free trade will prove an advantage to our general commerce. This being the case, would it not argue that a more extended range of free trade mould prove still better for the promotion promo-tion of American commerce? We think if elites and believe that reciprocity will yet lead to free trade. If it is good for iis to exchange products with Brazil, it is equally good for us to exchange with other countries of South America. Such products as we do not raise in our own j country, it is extreme folly to tax, whether or not they come from a coun-i coun-i try with which we have a treaty of reciprocity. |