Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — THE FRENCH PRESS ON PORK. [ARTICLE]

THE FRENCH PRESS ON PORK.

Chicago Inter Ocean. ■ ’ J The most widely circulated newspapers of the French Republic insist upon the readmission of America pork upon the old terms of a moderate tariff duty. It is the Democratic newspapers of the United States that insist upon its exclusion from France until the American protective system shall be supplanted by the British free-trade-system. The Democratic party would limit the foreign market of the American farmer, if bv so “doing it could create agricultural distress, and then use it as a lever for the overthrow of protection. The Democratic party never happy except when it is making some great part of the industrial community unhappy. Tl>e French people need our pork; we do not need their wines and laces. We can make our wines and laces. They can not make their own pork. If they admit our pork at a moderate duty we will continue to admit their wines and laces at a moderate duty. If they don’t we won’t If they don’t they will lose the sale of 400,000,000 of francs worth of exports which we <now take from them, and will have •jart as many mouths to be fed with

meat enhanced by the exclusion of American pork. But if we manufacture for ourselves the 400,000,000 francs worth of stuff which we now import we shall give employment Io a large number Of American citizens who will go far toward supplying a home market in place of that foreign market for pork which French obstinacy has closed to our farmer for nearly nine years. The, French newspapers recognize the logic of the situation: the American free-trade newspapers don't, They very seldom do.