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Show Tub present tariff is largely aproteo-live aproteo-live (discriminating) tarilf. h prevent, the American farmers from importing iIim pav for the .urplu farm product they export Everything they import (manufacture.) ii taxed from SO lo '.'00 percent. What the manufacturer buy (farm products) i taxed far less, aud the tax is mostly a nullity. No tax on w heat, for example, can raise the price of American heat, for our farmers hnvu to export great quantities of it. They raise wheal enough for nearly a hundred million of people, while the population of this country doe not reach sixty-live millions. lierald. Our morning contemporary i very much concerned for the farmer, but it overlooks the fact that the demand for the proiluce from the peo-j peo-j pie who manufacture American-I American-I made good for him establishes a home market that is of more value than any foreign market that he could secure. Under the beneficent influence of protection this home market is growing grow-ing at such a rate that the entire American Ameri-can wheat product will be needed at homo long before the dawn of the twentieth twen-tieth century. The democratic idea of today is that we thould have a population popula-tion of farmer exporting their product and importing their supplies iu return. The small saving effected in a few lines of goods would be far more than wiped out by the loss in price ot agriculture products, while the country, as a whole, would be impoverished. The home market is the American idea of political politi-cal economy. |