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Show Sn a" t 'H It is clear enough that Mr. Bryan hopes to" 'be h $' m, H - nominated for President in 1904. He is now in his IS ' f . H Commoner publishing in serial form his great Wki p H tariff speech of 1892. In doing it he must count m , fl on the forgetfulness of the American people, for 11$ JH the next year Mr. Cleveland was elected Presi- JB F , 1H dent; the Wilson bill followed and it required four H it 1$M years for the country to recover from the paralysis U LkH which followed the passage of that law. And that .11 ' ifl was really a protective tariff. Could the bill, as it mW (9 went up to tho Senate from the House, have crys- H !r WM talized into law, there would have been such a mt iH smashing of industries that there would have been 11 fflL jjfjfl no more advocacy of free trade for a generation H if ' jHJH to come. Iliifll im, jf ifl |