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Show LUdlCAL SEQl'KXCE. RCr.lPROCITY WOULD EMASCULATE THE AMERICAN POLICY A (Icni-rul I.itliirtfciiM'iit of Cotiirirtl-tlip Cotiirirtl-tlip 'I null- Willi fori'lttn Coitiitrlra WimiIU l.i'MftiMi IliiinrNtlc I'ruilm tlon nti,t l,o it WnK-N. Tlio Washington Post, an Indcpcnd cut Democratic newspaper of tlio llrst class, puts the case ileail untl pun gentlj when It asks of what uvull It 1 Unit the Republicans of Miiss.uliuieUs should get warm under the 01l.it and scol 1 and vvmnglo over the iiuc'stlon of tilt kit In,; for foielgn trade hi view of the fmt that "tlietu Is no mull thing us reclpioilt) with mi hod and cannot be unless tin- piotcttlve tat ill sjsteni I cnum. ul itml " Uf 1 muse tliu Post his In mind the t.vpe of rcclpiotlty that Involves 11 lowering low-ering of tariff rates to one or moie es peililly favoicil lountrles so 11s to Induce In-duce them to take mole of a tertnlii class of our produets, thiell noueom petltlve, while In letuin we iiiec to take 11101 e of their almost vvlioll competitive com-petitive products. Iteilpioelt In articles wlilih we do not ourselves produce Is 11 totull.v tilt -ferent pioposltlou Maine was 11 strong advocate of this tpo of icelproclty and of no other. "It would," he wild, "put In our linndtt a chili vvllh which 1 to force other nations to treat us fult-ly." fult-ly." Reciprocity of the Kasson sort would plate lit the IiiiuiIh of evel com petlng country 11 club with which to forte the United States to grant tariff favors In order to avoid being treated uufalrl.v We should then bribe other nations to do what? To be us good to us as they were to over body else. At) wc lime said, the Post's polut Is . well taken It cannot be disputed that 1 whenever vo consent to reciprocity hi competitive products wo shall emasculate emascu-late the protective tariff s.vstem. The tree trndeiH know this petfeetly well That Is why they nre siuh eager co adjutors In the reclproclt propaganda Certain people who do not call themselves them-selves frte traders ulso know that pro taction and reclproclt In competitive products cannot exist side h side. I These persons are chiefly thine whoso manufactured products are ptotcctcd h patents and heme are not hi need 1 or tariff protection 'lhelr attitude Is one of cold blooded seltlshuess, and they do not take tho pubis to deny It. They caudldly confess that If through leclproelty they lire ahlo to Increase their own foieign sties It tloes not mutter mut-ter how much loss may full upon Industries Indus-tries whkh are deprived of tariff pro ! tcctlou that Is needed Still another class Is made up of unthinking un-thinking ui'n, who have been persuad cd to Join the reciprocity movement without tuklug Into account the oh 1 vlous facts, tlrst, that reciprocity in I competitive products must become gen I end If adopted at nil, and, second, , that by so much as we Increaso the Imports of competitive product!) as the result of lowering our tariff rates, with j that end distinctly In view, by so much we must displace domestic produe-j produe-j tlon and cut off domestic wage pay 1 lug To this latter class of noiitlilnl;-I noiitlilnl;-I ers the sound remark of the Washing ton Post should appeal with convlnc-1 convlnc-1 lug force namely, that there can bo no such thing as reciprocity In competitive compet-itive products "unless tlio protective ' tariff system Is emasculated " We should think It would pay some Itepub llcans In .Massachusetts to take this home with them and try haul to grasp I Its meaning and Its truth |