Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1890 — Reciprocity. [ARTICLE]

Reciprocity.

In an interview, Eugene Hale, one of Blaine’s supporters said: It is the duty of the Republican Senate to stick to the tariff bill until it is completed and passed. It will not necessarily be the McKinley bill, but will retain all its features. * * * The proposition Vhich will be debated and passed upon by the Senate will be one to secure a foothold in the and Central America nations, South and to get their markets for our goods. This does not in any way interrupt the working of the protective system, nor is it inconsistent with a protective tariff. Central and South America furnish the products we need. We produce and manufacture things they need, and which they can not produce. Their market is largely with Great Britain and France. Instead of-paying lor their products in money, which goes to Europe, we ought to give in exchange our farm products and manufactured goods. Let their goods come to us and ours go to them. “When we open the ports of the United States to the sugar of South America, Cuba and Porto Rico, the benefits which she will derive from such a policy ought to be paid for by their admitting the> agricultural implements manufact--uvadall over -the-—ecun t ry ,~ ihapetroleum of the Middle States, -breadstuff* of the .West,- thethe lumber from Maine and the manufactures of cottons and wooled and perhaps a few other articles. “The duties laid in Spanish ports upon American flour alone are euormous and the sugar products of these ought to be held where they now are till the enormous duties which they levy on American flour shall be wholly or partially removed.”