Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — SENATOR FRYE’S PLAN. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR FRYE’S PLAN.

How Ho Would Knconrago Trad* With South America. Senator Frye, who originated the panAmerican Congress, thinks that if it recommends a common silver coinage all the countries will adopt it. “Is it possible that a suggestion from the Congress of a radical revision of the tariff would meet with any favor by the administration” “If it meant absolute free trade, it would not I would not vote for free trade with the republics, and for good reasons. There is another and a more profitable, a* well as a wholly practicable, arrangement that could bo effected with them. For instance, we have a heavy duty on sugar. We have no sugar grown in this country, but we have a heavy protective tariff on it that is wholly a tax on tiie people. Why not say' to the people of the South American republics that we will admit their sugar free if some product of ours is in turn admitted by themt What would be the loss to this country! We would get a four fold return. Then there is a coarse kind of wool grown in South America that is not" profitably grown ia this country. We ean admit that free and send them another of Our pro duets. n