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Show Protection Mini freedom. The Hon. Joseph N'imiuo concludes recent newspaper artlclo as follows: The remission of duties is as much a I part of the Protective policy as the imposition im-position of duties, There is no word' in tho English InriirunxoFo abominably totalised tota-lised as the word "free" in its application to tho tariff policy known as "Free-trade." "Free-trade." The Protective policy is the true policy of commercial and industrial freedom. free-dom. It frees our people from taxes on things which wo do not produce, and it ' frees American labor from the degrading effects of foreign competition upon things ! which we do produce. The utter ab-. ab-. surdity of the false alarm as to rise in j prices which created such havoc last fall is now clearly seen. The beneficent working of the present tarill is daily indicating in-dicating the wisdom and patriotism of its trumors. I |