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Show HOME MARKET HUMBUG. Manufacturers say to the farmer, "Protect us so that we can build mills; pay us higher prices than you do others; oth-ers; give us business, and we will employ em-ploy a lot of men to eat your produce, and give you a home market for all you can raise." But since 1861 the manufacturers manu-facturers have grown rich, while the farmer, once the envy of all humanity, has been retrograding comparatively. In fact the mill-owners, all their employes em-ployes and the miners combined, include in-clude less than ten per cent, of our working population. And the fact is, since 1861, the farmer is to-day, under x high protection, more dependent than ever upon foreign markets, and is forced to find sale abroad for a larger proportion propor-tion of what he produces than he did in 1850 under the free trade tariff. |