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Show Kx I'iiksiientOi.evki.ani'h last tariff epistle it) a clever bid lo tho farmers. "If tho farmer's lot is a hard one," he cries, "in his discouraging strugglo fur better rewards for his toil, are the. prices of his products to be improved by a policy which hampers trade in his best markets and invites competition of dangerous rivals?" No; but we are not aw are that tho importation of pauper made goods and the consequent closing of American factories will improve trade in this country, or tend to open new iniirL-da fur nor enroelw ulirnrld The prices of the farmers' products are governed by tho inexorable laws of supply sup-ply and demand and it is unfortunate, yet true, that the increased acreage in India and Australia, makes our lest customer, Kngland, ever more independent inde-pendent of us. In the free coinage of silver lies the only remedy against the encroachment of those countries upon our industrial preserve, and that is the very remedy which Mr. ( lkvki.ami ileelares is injurious iu accordance with tho doctrine) of Wall street gamblers. gam-blers. What a sophist tho ex-president is. |