Show BUM FROM MAINE MAIN E I 1 reciprocity the text of his latest letter 1 I 1 0 APPEAL TO ENGLAND I 1 it 11 whose industries well tl 4 can afford to bs bil generous I 1 I 1 4 5 WH UK N fiz IZ E ac 3 I 1 rha r enactment or thi 1 1 I 1 11 I of f protection if its dekat Is tk tie 1 tandl of r frd free braido I 1 I 1 1 THE lly FRO ami ff V I 1 01 ar mr elaine writes a strona letter lion upon the ta 1 benefits of r reciprocity 1 BOSTO 4 sept 16 la response to I 1 an invitation to the annual banquet I 1 11 of the boot and shoe shoo dab clab of boston col clapp editor of the journal ro has received rece heda a letter from rom mr blaine in which tha the secretary of to that portion of the invitation baying saying 1 the members of the dab club arom aro in hearty sympathy with bis his vl views we regarding the beat methods of extending american trade regrets that other I 1 en engagements en tow will I 1 I 1 I 1 not permit him to 41 ad addrena hagery ress the meeting tiie the members I 1 of the club be he says can do great good by counteracting a certain I 1 of afew new england opinion which here ho regards ai as hurtful to new ew En glands 1 interests new now england is 13 to receive I 1 in the new now tariff the comple teet I 1 protection for every manufacturing 1 industry within her borders and it a 1 will be in the judgment of the secretary 5 of state both inexpedient and 11 injurious tor for her representatives to I 1 disregard a measure which will promote I 1 in 0 te western interests mr blaino blaine refers to the letter recently received from the resident of tho the late convention of millers at minneapolis referring to tho the excessive duties on american flour in cuba and stating th t the americans will ba be unable to retain any part of the cuban flour trade unless immediate relief ia Is ee so cared in view of these facts saya says mr blaine is it possible that a I 1 protectionist congress Coa greas can even think of pening our markets to cubas products free while allowing a great I 1 western industry to be absolutely excluded from her markets by a prohibitory tariff with reciprocity the 1 west can annually sell many hundred thousand barrels of flur fiur in cuba and forto porto Kica with a large mas of other agricultural products without reciprocity she will be driven dm en more a and nd more from the thesa a a rn marketa mar a ketr tp I 1 giving the fullest to all eastern interests as the proposed prop oed tariff bill does surely no man of good 1 judgment certainly no protectionist 4 of wise forecast fo wishes to a 1 western interest 0 tose serious noua injury especial 1 I y when it is hanif atly eay easy to aill 1 protect and promote it manifestly 1 M easy at this very tim time the boards of trade tha the chambers chamb sra of commerce commeree and public opinion in havana are demanding reciprocal trade with I 1 the united states certain wise men have asked how ran can we sell farm products in south america when tho rime hims are tire produced there cereals are undoubtedly grown ia in the I 1 portion of south america but these wise wise mn men will te remember member that cereals and sugar do not browin grow in the same soil and tha the sagar countries of 0 loutit I 1 and central america and the west indies contain forty millions af jt people who import the largest pir r of their bread breadstuffs stuffs indeed the rl largest a r eat portion of the sugar product of latin america is at our doors and we can greatly enlarge our exchanges there if congress Coo grese will give na us an for reciprocal trade Another cUss tsa observe that they want time to study the system to this I 1 might reply the best beat method of studying a system is to observe its practical workings while studying in in the abstract and relating reainza re aina to take some object lesson lee song these gentlemen propose to open our m market ir ket to latin american merical pru products ducts free of all 1 charge without asking 1 latin america to give ine us in return ome some freedom in their markets A the object lesson immediately before 1 1 fo re us Is ia the treatment of the sugar I 1 qu question estion shall wo we make latin A america erica a gift of that trade T when we have studied that lesson we shall be prepared for the second the worst proposition of all is put forth by those who say let us put sugar i on the leo list now and next year f take up the subject of reciprocity it I 1 I 1 understand their logic it is to make p an sugar gar ree this year without condition and nd next year to ask spain if she will not kindly consent to grant us reciprocal I 1 to eal trade holding the complete vantage ground themselves the proposed policy transfers the vantage ground to ISM yvain those who take this ground belong elong e to that class of I 1 careful guardians of property who prepare tepas a strong lock for the stable after the horse is gone I 1 1 I do not mean in anything I 1 I 1 I 1 havo have said to imply that I 1 red reciprocity r ca ity is only a western interest 1 it t wl will 1 prove beneficial and profitable both to the farm and the cheep many forma in which our business 1 interests will be promoted by reciprocity cannot be known until the active probity commercial men of the united 1 states shall have dei developed sloped forms forma by investigation and experience bence we shall not realize the full benefit of ofalia the policy in fit a day or a year but shall we therefore throw away countless millions in addition to the sixty millions we have already thrown sway away and then ignorantly de do clare without trial that the system d wont work finally there ia is ore oro fact that g should houll hare base great weight especially with protection late every tree free trader in the senate voted against reciprocity iree free I ree braid traid tr lda papers throughout the con are bowing determined de ter mined hostility to it it is evident g that the free trade senators and tree free trade papers have roe soe eifle remon for their course chev C know and sod feel that with a system af 0 reciprocity and gaoing gr their pol cy of treo free tr da de receives a moat most ser serious i oua blot the protection it who opposes reciprocity in the form in which it Is 13 now pre prevented rented knocks away ono one of 0 the strongest supports 11 of his system the enactment of reciprocity is the va safeguard of 0 protection tec tion the dt at of reciprocity Is the I 1 opportunity t 11 I 1 free trade 1 I |