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Show RESULT Or PROTECTIVE TARirF. That the United States under a pio-tective pio-tective tarilT lias been enabled to become be-come the vv oi Id's workshop is evidenced evidenc-ed by t lie following from the London Mail: "In the domestic life we have got to this: Theaverago Londoner rises in theinoinhc fioin his New England sheets, he shaves with American soap anda Yankee safety r;i7or, pulls on his Host on boots over his socks from North Carolina, fastens his Connecticut Connecti-cut braces, slips his AValtham or AVat-erbury AVat-erbury watch in ills pocket and sits down to breakfast. "There he congratulates his wife on the way her Illlnolsstialght front corset cor-set sets off her Massachusetts blouse, and he tackles his breakfast. He eats bread made fioin prairie i!our(posslbly doctored at the special establishments on tho lakes), tinned 0sters from Haltimoro and a little Kansas City bacon, while ids wife plays with a sllco of Chicago ox tongue. The children child-ren are given Quaker oats. At t lie same time he reads his morning morn-ing paper printed by American machines ma-chines orr American paper with American Amer-ican Ink and possibly edited by a smart Journalist fiom New York city. "He rushes out, catches tho electric elect-ric tram (New York) to Shepherd's Hush, where ho gets in a Yankee elevator ele-vator to take him on to the American Ameri-can fitted electric railway to the city. "At his ofllce of course everything Is American. Ho sits on a Ncbraskan swivel chair before a Michigan roll top desk, writes his letters on a Syracuse typewriter, signing them with a New York fountain pen and drying them witli a blotter from New England. "Tiro letter copies arc put away in files manufactured in Grand Rapids. "Atlunchtime ho hastily swallows some cold loast beef that comes from the midwest cow and flavors It with Pittsburg pickles, followed by a few Delaware tinned peaches, and then soothes ids mind with a couple of Virginia cigarettes. "To follow his course all day would be wearisome, but when evening comes I io seeks relaxation at the latest lat-est American musical comedy, drinks a cocktail or some California wine and finishes up with a couple of "little liver liv-er pills" made in America." Tills list comprises but a small fraction frac-tion of what we make In this country for the use and convenience of our llrltlsh cousins. The sum total mounts up to hundreds of millions In value every car, and a detailed catalogue cata-logue of articles would be "longer than the moial law." It Is not so many years ago that England prided herself CJI on being the world's workshop. That. l time has passed. She Is now not even vaH her own workshop. A very consider- H able portion of the manufactured arti- -''!l cles which she uses Is "made in Amor- ! lea." The world's workshop has been H moved to this side of tho Atlantic. jl Protection was the moving cause. qH Hrltlsh producers arc beginning to ' find out the fact and the cause; hence their movement away from free trade, and toward protection. yll |