Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1891 — ALL HAIL RECIPROCITY! [ARTICLE]

ALL HAIL RECIPROCITY!

' .g- • ■ The President’s proclamation swinging wide open the door of “commerce between Brazil 'and the United States is the beginning of a movement which will make every dollar invested in North American manufactures worth $2 and lift our laboring classes into a , greate r prosperity than- they have /.yet dreamed of- The simple fact is that tin- tmpic.nl countries, are . now buying fro in transatlantic- nationsTdmost everything and from us almost nothing, and the tide ought to turn, and the .tide will i turn. ' Ln a recent year five billion, three hundred and sixty-nine million dollars worth of goods manufactured in the United States, and only 2 per c(.,nfo±aken.by:Jioreigu markets! ~ Is it not a marvel that American manufactures are not as dead as the proverbial door nail? My only wonder is that nine-tenths of the manufacturers have not gone into bankruptcy and ninety-nine one-hundredths : of the factory hands have not gone I into starvation or the almshouse; aud it will be worse if the battle | is to go on between Lowell spindq les hero and Manchester spindles : there, between foreign merchants I who want tariiis down and Ameri—--1 can merchants who want tariffs up. There is no relief for ns in j the markets of Europe, andirhere j with bo none until

Moons shall wax and wane no more. This nation to-day is like a silly dry goods merchant who stands behind the counter haggling with I small customer about three j yards iff tape, when there-are at j the counter, impatiently waiting, three princesses wishing to purchase their bridal tron sseans. May God arouse this Nation from its .commercial idiocy! In South America are regions nearly three times as large as the “United States, without manufactories, without woolen goods, without agricultural implements, without telegraphs, without teleifiiones, without shoes, without sewing machines, without ten thousand things that we have and they must have. Not tens of thousands, but millions of consumers. Where shall they get their supplies,? They are ‘getting them from another hemisphere 3,000 miles away, and we at their next door, are buried under a surplus of those very things. They are able to trade with us for their sugars, and coffees, and spices, and fruits, and valuable woods, and a thousand other commodities. « We need theirs as much as they need our products. But look,

and then hang your heads at the statement that, while our -next door neighbors, the southern republics, and Brazil and neighboring colonies import six hundred and seventy-five million dollars’ worth of goods a year, only one hundred and twenty-six million dollars.’ worth are from the United States—sl26,ooo,ooo out of $675,000,000 —only one-fifth of the trade ours. European nations taking fheTr Tour fingers and leaving us the poor thumb. The sisj ter republics on the American 1 continent, with a foreign commerce amounting to $428,000,000, trade with us the feeble and paltry sum of $63,000,000. There is nothing but a comparative ferry | between this country aud the j West Indies, while there are raging seas and long voyages between them and other continents, yet they import one hundred and sixteen million dollars’ worth of goods, and only thirty-one million dollars, worth comes from us. Now all this is going speedily to be changed, and it is going to be the solution of the communistic question, of the over-production and under- consumption question, and nearly all other questions. It is going to set all the mills on the Merrimac, and the Connecticut and the Susquehanna, and the Chattphooche, and the Alabama running day and night with double set of hands, and calling for ten factories where we have one, and putting all the men out of employ into work at good wages, and is going to change this story of dull times into a prosperity which will roll oh in full tide until the Mississippi loses its way to the Gulf of Mexico. They are soon coming to trade with us, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil and the brunet West Indies to meet the blond and smiling United States. Hail! Marriage day of North and South. While the pessimists have been been hunting up the burial service to read at the death of American Commerce, and the stops of the organ were being pulled out for the “Dead March” in Saul, I, an j optimist, both by natnje and by grace, take up in anticipation the , bright covered wedding liturgy, 1 and as the blond North takes

the brunette South by the hand, saying; “with all my worldly good I thee endow,” I cry, “Whom God hath joined together let neither foreign despotism nor American demagogisin ever put asunder.” Then let all the organs, andchoirs, and orchestras make - everything, ■from the Montreal ice palaces to the halls of the Montezumas, quake under the rolling thunders of i lu-grand march of North and Smith American progress. Tn anticipation 1 nail tm the front door of the Nation an .. rusemeht; • Wanted, one hundred thousand men to build South American railroads, as long as from here' to San Francisco. Wanted, five thousand telegraph operators. Wanted £20,000,000 worth of dry goods and hardware from New York city. Wanted, all the clocks you can make-at New Haven; and all the brains you can spare from Boston, and the all bells you can mold at Tro}', and all the McCormick reapers yon can fashion at Chicago, ainTall the hams you can turn out at Cincinnati, and all the Railroad iron you can send from Bloomington and Pittsburg. Wanted, wanted right away, and - wanted by express, wanted, C. O. D.. warned by railroad train, wanted by steamer. Wanted, lawyers to plead our causes; wanted doctors to cure our sick; wanted, ministers to evangelize our population; wanted, professors to establish our universities.—Rev T. DeWitt Talruage in Christian Union.