Show tue THE ration nation concedes that the increase in the number of horses by per cent of mules by per cent of cows by per cent of oxen and other cattle by percent per cent and 0 hos hogs by per cen cent t was n not a t d due ue tari tariff ff and asks whether we will insist that it was due to free trade certainly not it was due simply to to the growth of the country but we asserted that the stagnation of the sheep industry wils was due to the tariff and the nation promptly claimed that the growth of that industry was due to the tar tariff it As the ibe condition of the sheep industry was by both admitted to be due to 0 the tar tariff iff it only remained to find that the sheep industry had increased only from one tenth to one twentieth as fast as the other livestock industries have do nethe latter being by both parties acknowledged to be in independent dependent of the tariff |