Show RUSSIAS PROTECTIVE WALL Senator WILLIAM E CHANDLER has recently re-cently stated his belief that foreign goods should be kept out of our markets for tile benefit of American workingmen And this policy of exclusion is the tendency of high tariff everywhere European writers declare that it is the intention of Russia to raise her protective duties until she has hemmed herself within a commercial wall behind which she shall be selfsufllcing The following figures aro intended to support sup-port this idea The importation of sugar has fallen to zero by Russian manufacturers The 80000000 roubles worth per annum of cgetables and fruits for which 1S31 12000000 roubles went to foreign countrieslas fallen in 1S8S to practically nothing noth-ing Tho annual average Importation tobace between 1S72 and 1ST6 was 10500000 roubles Between 1832 and 1SSO it had already been decreased de-creased by half and was at r000000 roubles In ISIS it had reached 24000UO roubles In liquors the diminution Is still more rapid Distilleries Dis-tilleries arc establlthed In all the great towns There are Ineyards In Bessarabla Origen and the Caucassus Further figures are given to demonstrate the same results manufactures We are in the habit of hearing a good deal about British free trade What do the McKiXLEriTES think of Russian protection pro-tection i |