Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — Reciprocity Scores for America Against the World. [ARTICLE]

Reciprocity Scores for America Against the World.

Tho British Trade Journal, of July 1, utters a most plaintive and distressing wail over the evil effects, of our reelproolty polloy on British commerce. It says: “ British merchants and manufacturers are aaklhg themselves whether something could not have been done to prevent the conclusion of the Spanish West Indian treaty between Spain and the United States in Its present differential form. It is one result of the failure of British negotiations at Madrid for a renewal of the treaty with Spain, which expired yesterday. To-day, therefore, July 1, the new and enormously increased duties come into foroe in tho peninsula, and the United States step into the Cuban and Porto 8100 market, while British goods are shut oat” This is tho same reciprocity policy, let It not bo forgotten, of which the Free Trade party,, always In the van when It dfemee to sneering'SA American progress or belittling American policies, dismisses all consideration In Its platform, atier contemptuously referring to it as a “humbug.” It is also the same reciprocity of which the World, leading Free Trade organ, say* that it is a scheme to “untax foreigners only.” Untax foreigners only? One would Indeed eearedy think so from the above editorial. But it is true we had forgotten that the un-American World, whose proprietor dlreots its policy from his * splendid home In London, probably refers to Americans as foreigners, and hie definition of reciprocity as a scheme to “untax fore|gnsrs only* should, therefore, be accepted us a compliment rather than are proa h. There cannot be any doubt, however, that John Ball thinks reciprocity a "humbug." As usual, be is heart and soul at ouoe with tho Democratic patty.