Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — CUBA AND AMERICAN FLOUR. [ARTICLE]

CUBA AND AMERICAN FLOUR.

Secretary Blaine received the following telegram from Chairman lmbs, of the National Millers’ Association, in session at Minneapolis; It is reported that an additional duty of 80 cents per barrel will be imposed upon American flour by Cuba on July 1. This would prohibit any possible flour trade between the United States and Cuba. The millers are consequently agitated, hence your prompt telegraphic reply is earnestly solicited. To which Mr. Blaine replied:

“We have no official adviceat the State Department of the eighty cents additional duty on flour in Cuba. If levied, it will make the duty $3.31 per barrel—evidently intended by Spain to be prohibitory. The whole subject is within the power and wisdom of Congress. It has been constantly said there for the last six months that the Western fanners demand the unconditional repeal of the sugar duty. It Is within the power of Western farmers, by encouraging of reciprocity, to secure, in exchange ,for the repeal of this duty, the free admission of their breadstuffs and provision into the markets of of 40,'000,000 of people, including Cuba. “In my opinion this is the most profltaoie policy for tho Western farmer. Free sugar in the United States should be ac companied by free breadstuffs, and provisions in Spanish America:”