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Show Tub lierald devotes a column to"The, Destruction of Homo Industry." The title of the article recalls Senator Vest's famous declaration that "We (thedetno-crats) (thedetno-crats) propose to fight the protected industries in-dustries to the death." The argument of the free trade organ that farming has languished because of the. tarilf cannot be maintained. The trouble with the farming industry, as with all others in which the masses engage, is that the world has legislated legis-lated airainst the people's money metal. If it had not been for protection our farmers w ould have been ruined in many sections, for they would have had no home market worth the name. Statistics Sta-tistics fehow that the agricultural interests inter-ests of fren trade England are in a far worse condition than those of the United States; and every intelligent farmer will look at this fact very closely bo-fore bo-fore be yields to the clamorous demand that he shall iom in the "war to the death" against the protected industries. |