"reciprocity Humbug."

"The recïproctty Imintrag!" Whai does the "reeoprocEty humbug" nmoimt to? li compete South Ameriv.i to purchase irom this eountry omethfog in exchange for the large amo nat of produce w; have jjeen buytng frora them. Heretofore they haw been seiMlïnsï uu thelr sugar, coffee and other artfclies - iu eome insiinccs niaktng un p.'iy, as in the case of coffee, au export dnty tor the privteRe of buying it from them, and theü )iitliin a hi';iv„v duly on American "onr and other products. Thils try wíis good emough few thema to Beli coftee and sujïtir to, but In tlu-ir buying, the favors were Hl ehown to the Baropeans. Reclproclty lias chang1 tlii's. It lias compedled them to give Americana fair play. It lias boen the cause of aboMJshing dlficrlmlnating rtuiiis. and now it has opened the Gierman market to the American farm protiucts a.uai.u aleo in the saine treaty. TliLs lnsmree an iinnicnsLy inercased market for AmerLoan pork and Amoricaji oom, Whlch is uot such u very bad result of "the reclprocity humbug."- Coiifectioner's Gazette, October lOth.