Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1901 — PRESIDENT’S ATTITUDE. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT’S ATTITUDE.

He Favosa Only the Reciprocity Defined by the Republican Platform of 1990. “Of one thing there Is no doubt,” says the Omaha Bee, “and that is that President McKinley is most earnestly in favor of reciprocity.” The Bee is right. The President believes in and favors the plan of reciprocity as defined by the Republican platform of 1900, “In articles which we do not ourselves produce.” He does not favor anything beyond that. He is distinctly and unequivocally opposed to that form of socalled reciprocity which diminishes home production and displaces American labor and wages through the larger admission of competitive foreign products. He does not want the reciprocity that takes from a single American workingman his job. The President has recently said so In unmistakable terms. The American Economist is prepared to vouch for the accuracy and authority of this statement of President McKinley’s attitude on the subject of reciprocity. On his return from the Presidential trip to the Pacific coast, Mr. Charles A. Moore, President of the American Protective Tariff League, in an interview, said: “The President, I am certain, is just as ardent a believer in the theory and practice of protection to cjomeetic industries as he ever was. But I do think it safe to announce that the time has come when the policy of this administration will favor more positively than hitherto the negotiation of treaties of reciprocity, with the purpose of enlarging our foreign markets.” Qnr Greatest Year. Last Sunday ended the Government’s fiscal year, and though it will be a few weeks before we have the exact figures concerning commerce and finance, enough is known to show that It will prove to be Uncle Sam’s greatest year. Our export trade of $1,500,000,000 Is not only a home record, but a world’s record, and Uncle Sam Is the greatest salesman on earth.

But that $1,500,000,000 is not so great, after all, when we consider that Uncle Sam’s folks have traded among themselves to the amount of over $l(i0,000,000,000, ns shown by bank clearings. Why, Johnny Bull and the Czar and Emperor William and the frog-eaters just stand amazed at those figures. And how they would like a slice of it, wouldn't they? They just get a taste as it is, for Uncle Sam has learned to make about everythihg he needs, and he not only feeds himself but half the rest of the world.

So he is paying off half his debts at home and abroad and piling up the surplus for a rainy day. He has done so well that on July 1 he stopped internal taxation to the amount of about $45,000,000 a year. And all the time John Bull is squeezing his subjects as hard as he can, and yet he cannot begin to meet expenses. Not only lias Uncle Sam had the greatest year since he has been in business, but all his great industrial family are breaking records, too. The farmers never did so well, nor the manufacturers. The railroads are as busy as they can he hauling all kinds of freight, while the millions of laborers of all classes are busy and well paid, happy and prosperous. If any one ever doubted that protection and prosperity went together he has only to study the figures of 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901.—American Economist.

True as Gospel. In Ills speech at the Ohio Republican State Convention, Senator Foraker said: “The Democratic party came into power. Prosperity vanished, and four years of disaster followed. The soil was as rich, the sunshine was as warm, the rains were as abundant, the seasons, were as regular, and labor was as

eager, but it was all In vain. The Democratic party was at the helm. Free trade was In the saddle, and capital went Into hiding; the mills stopped, the mines closed, and idleness, want, suffering, tramps and riots spread over the land. Commerce waned, the balances of trade turned against us, revenues declined, deficits occurred and multiplied until they amounted to hundreds of millions.” True, every word of It; and it was because the people believed and knew it to be true—knew it from hard, bitter experience—that they voted in 1890 and 1900 to put an end to Democratic free trade tariff tinkering. Happy Vacation Day*. These are the very happiest vacalton days the American people have ever known. Few Indeed are those who cannot plan a joyful trip to the seashore or mountain with well-filled purse, thanks to protection nnd full employment at high wages.