Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Reciprocity Humbug. [ARTICLE]

Reciprocity Humbug.

To make such a treaty (of reciprocity) would be to obliterate the precedent afforded by a whole century of progress, and to slide back into that medievalism which Adam Smith condemned, • • • and it is now proposed that the United States shall undertake the propaganda for the revival of this defunct and utterly obsolete system of discrimination; and this, too, in order that we may make the effort to sell packed meats to meat packers and breadstuffs to the exporters of grain!—American Economist, organ of the American Protective Tariff League, 1890. I firmly believe that Section 3 of the McKinley bill, which contains the reciprocity feature, ii the part of the measure which has floated the whole act, and which kept it froiu being swamped by the storm which, Without reason, broke upon it from thfe day of its passage • • • The McKinley bill might have sunk under a sea of obloquy • • if the reciprocity clause had not kept the whole structure from going down.— Senator Eugene Hale, Jan. 27, 1992. If “hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue,” then reciprocity may he called the homage prohibitory protection pays to genuine tarlf reform.—Grover Cleveland.