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Show SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Statemnaniililp of Swappiug. San Francisco Chronicle. It is not easy to discuss a problem in the higher mathematics with a man who denies that two and two uiaku four, or who has never learned the multiplication table. Mr. Mills does not know the alphabet of reciprocity, or else he Is "talkiut through his hat," ; as the cant phrase has it. Would Air. Mills deem it reciprocity in an economic or valuable souse if two farmers should exchange wheat with each other, bushel for bushel, or if two slock raisers should swap steers, pound for pound? Would he not think it a great waste of j time? Would he not think it a preat l waste of time, and a piec of utter folly to make such exchanges? And ! yet that is just what he would have the ! Uiiitcd States do with England, and ile-i ile-i ciares that it would prolit our fanners j j ami manufacturers could such a system be inaugurated. |